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Single-player games like Breakthrough

Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Breakthrough, 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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    Demons are coming! — Steam game cover

    Demons are coming!

    Single-player alternative to Breakthrough — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Breakthrough.

    Demons are coming! is a bullet hell rougelite shooter where you fight a high variety of demons that occupied your holy land. Use the upgrades you find to your advantage and create your ideal guns to help you kill the most terrifying monsters.

    2024ActionIndie4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Cubed and Dangerous — Steam game cover

    Cubed and Dangerous

    Single-player alternative to Breakthrough — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Breakthrough.

    Blast your way through infinite hordes while completing objectives in this chaotic twin-stick looter shooter with frantic juicy combat. Upgrade gear, recruit heroes, tackle cumulative escalating challenges in your quest for the build of ultimate destruction.

    2024ActionIndie4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Gunmancer — Steam game cover

    Gunmancer

    Single-player alternative to Breakthrough — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Breakthrough.

    Gunmancer is a science fantasy roguelike top-down shooter. Summon guns as you shoot your way through mysterious randomly generated dungeons full of ancient forbidden magic of guns and dangerous monsters.

    2021ActionIndie6.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Turf Wars: A Snail Escape — Steam game cover

    Turf Wars: A Snail Escape

    Single-player alternative to Breakthrough — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Breakthrough.

    Strap on your shell and dive antenna-first into a thrilling action roguelike. Spread slime, snag upgrades, and splat bugs. You only have one mission: escape the garden or dry trying...

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    ATOMINE — Steam game cover

    ATOMINE

    Single-player alternative to Breakthrough — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Breakthrough.

    Atomine is a twin stick procedural shooter rogue-lite set in a virtual world with minimalist design, where the player recounts on the screen the real events of STUXNET, the first weapon ever created in the form of computer virus.

    2017ActionIndie9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Destropolis — Steam game cover

    Destropolis

    Single-player alternative to Breakthrough — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Breakthrough.

    Destropolis is a top-down shooter game with a fully destructible environment, hundreds of enemies and nuclear explosions. Fight a countless swarm of enemies. Tear them to pieces with bullets, lasers and explosions. Destroy as many of them as you can before they overwhelm you...

    2020ActionIndieRPG5.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Lost Potato — Steam game cover

    Lost Potato

    Single-player alternative to Breakthrough — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Breakthrough.

    Lost Potato is a minimalistic top-down roguelite where you can't damage enemies directly. Push them into spikes, reflect bullets and help a young potato find its way out of a jungle filled with man-eating tribes!

    2020ActionIndie2.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Survivor Mercs — Steam game cover

    Survivor Mercs

    Single-player alternative to Breakthrough — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Breakthrough.

    Purge the billionaires' robot army with your Merc squad! Fast-paced twin-stick action, frantic horde survival, tactical squad-building & tons of loot! Exploit game-breaking synergies to beat the M.E.G.A. Corp. bosses in ever-changing operations. Lock, load, and loot, Commander!

    2026ActionIndieRPG9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Idle Colony — Steam game cover

    Idle Colony

    Single-player alternative to Breakthrough — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    A condensed incremental experience, where you build a colony to collect and merge bigger and bigger fruits. Combine game-changing technologies and special upgrades to find the best synergies and take your cash flow to another dimension.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation5.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Duck's Despair — Steam game cover

    Duck's Despair

    Single-player alternative to Breakthrough — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Breakthrough.

    Embark on a brutally hard platforming journey as a desperate Duck who cannot fly. Will you make the pain your friend or give up on your dreams ?

    2024ActionIndieAdventure6.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Human: Profit — Steam game cover

    Human: Profit

    Single-player alternative to Breakthrough — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    An accurate depiction of our world, baked into a short, classic incremental game. Take over Grandpa's farm, rebuild the town, and do whatever it takes to succeed. Also rabbits.

    2026IndieSimulationCasualSingle-playerSimilar games →