Single-player games like Picayune Dreams
Below are 19 single-player Steam games similar to Picayune Dreams, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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Centauri Dark
Single-player alternative to Picayune Dreams — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Centauri Dark is a bullet-hell FPS where you fight against wave after wave of mechs in a bid for your own survival.
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LOOK UP AND GO
Single-player alternative to Picayune Dreams — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Picayune Dreams.
Wishlist this fast paced, fps, score attack where every run is a risk. Use your points to bet on your own survival or make other players' runs harder. Get combos by stabbing, shooting, and doing tricks. Ascend the tower. Climb the leader board. Wishlist now.
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Project:Sphere
Single-player alternative to Picayune Dreams — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Picayune Dreams.
Arcade video game in 3D, of frenetic action, in which you will have several modes to test your skills, maps that will change as they look, maps that will change their structures, skins for your sphere! Fight to survive or kill everything you can in this game full of spheres!
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Sphere Fight
Single-player alternative to Picayune Dreams — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Picayune Dreams.
Fast arcade survival with short 3–5 minute runs. Grow from an insignificant being into a god of the arena. Fight endless waves, upgrade your abilities, and chase higher and higher scores.
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Chromocide: Prism of Sin
Single-player alternative to Picayune Dreams — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Picayune Dreams.
Shoot, shift color and race against the darkness in this short-run psychedelic action roguelite. Level up in color-specific ways as you span the visible spectrum and beyond. Will you atone for your sin?
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DREAMFEAR
Single-player alternative to Picayune Dreams — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Picayune Dreams.
Escape the nightmare filled with your own fears using various weapons and upgrades in a fast-paced, surreal roguelite. Can you survive in your own mind?
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Vaporware Odyssey
Single-player alternative to Picayune Dreams — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Picayune Dreams.
Vaporware Odyssey is a fast paced action rogue-like combining souls-like and bullet hell mechanics. It features procedurally generated levels and a deeply synergetic upgrade system.
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Heartbeats
Single-player alternative to Picayune Dreams — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Picayune Dreams.
Would you survive a panic attack? Test your limits in this anxiety-inducing twin-stick shooter, blasting away intrusive thoughts using your Inner weapon.
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Terraria
Single-player alternative to Picayune Dreams — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Picayune Dreams.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
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Risk of Rain 2
Single-player alternative to Picayune Dreams — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Picayune Dreams.
Escape a chaotic alien planet by fighting through hordes of frenzied monsters – with your friends, or on your own. Combine loot in surprising ways and master each character until you become the havoc you feared upon your first crash landing.
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Yume Nikki
Single-player alternative to Picayune Dreams — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
This is a game in which you traverse the extremely dark world inside a dream.
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Space Invaders Extreme
Single-player alternative to Picayune Dreams — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Picayune Dreams.
The critically acclaimed update to the Space Invaders franchise has arrived to invade Steam with greatly improved graphics and audio! Packed with pulsing, vibrant visuals enhanced further by interactive sound. The invaders have evolved, the question is: can you keep up?
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Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition
Single-player alternative to Picayune Dreams — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Picayune Dreams.
Game of the Year - The Game Awards 2019 Best Action Game of 2019 - IGN Carve your own clever path to vengeance in the award winning adventure from developer FromSoftware, creators of Bloodborne and the Dark Souls series. Take Revenge. Restore Your Honor. Kill Ingeniously.
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ULTRAKILL
Single-player alternative to Picayune Dreams — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Picayune Dreams.
ULTRAKILL is a fast-paced ultra-violent retro FPS that combines the skill-based style scoring of character action games with the unadulterated carnage inspired by the best shooters of the '90s. Rip apart your foes with varied destructive weaponry and shower in their blood to regain your health.
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Neon White
Single-player alternative to Picayune Dreams — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Picayune Dreams.
Neon White is a single-player speedrunning FPS where you can sacrifice your guns for godlike parkour moves.
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Touhou Mystia's Izakaya
Single-player alternative to Picayune Dreams — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A brand new pixel art restaurant simulator based on the Touhou Project! Play as Mystia, the owner of a small izakaya. Collect ingredients by day, cater to the customers by night, learn recipes from familiar characters, and become the best izakaya owner in all of Gensokyo!
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Olive's Art-Venture
Single-player alternative to Picayune Dreams — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Olive's Art-Venture is a spell-slinging arena and mobbing game. Use the paper on the right side of the screen to draw shapes which then cast spells, damaging enemies and protecting you.
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Underlevel
Single-player alternative to Picayune Dreams — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Picayune Dreams.
In Underlevel, you play as hordes of skeletal minions working to stop a hero from raiding the dungeon to level up and kill your boss. And as skeletons, you REALLY can't afford to lose the dental plan they provide!
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Cardaver
Single-player alternative to Picayune Dreams — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Picayune Dreams.
Cardaver is a tower defense, deckbuilder, with roguelike looping gameplay. Using a wide variety of monsters and spells to defend each lane, help the Dragon Queen protect her Castle Kingdom against an army of fantasy do-gooders and tyrannical princesses.