Single-player games like Waking Knightmare
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Waking Knightmare, 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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Undead Blackout: Reanimated Edition
Single-player alternative to Waking Knightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Waking Knightmare.
If classic top-down shooter Loaded was merged in a lab with Resident Evil you might get something like Undead Blackout: Reanimated Edition. Reimagined and rebuilt from the ground up with the latest version of Unreal Engine 4, this is a frantic, unrelenting and supremely challenging shooter.
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Renegade Ops
Single-player alternative to Waking Knightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Waking Knightmare.
Blast your way through enemy lines to defeat Inferno, a madman intent on global domination. Destruction just got awesome.
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Splatter - Zombiecalypse Now
Single-player alternative to Waking Knightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Waking Knightmare.
You like top-down-shooter with a film-noir singleplayer campaign, challenging fights against zombies and monsters, gory splatter effects and destructible level environments? Fight your way through an apocalyptic city in the single player story mode, and test your skills in the survival mode.
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Beat Hazard 2
Single-player alternative to Waking Knightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Waking Knightmare.
Experience your music collection as never before with this intense music driven arcade shooter. Each of your songs will have its own unique ebb and flow based on the music.
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Crimsonland
Single-player alternative to Waking Knightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Waking Knightmare.
Thousands of aliens, giant spiders, mutant lizards, and more are on the attack - can you survive the onslaught? Crimsonland is a top-down shooter with a touch of RPG. Unlock over 30 weapons and over 50 perks from quirky to brutal. Complete the quest and show your skills in five survival modes.
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Destropolis
Single-player alternative to Waking Knightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Waking Knightmare.
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...
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#KILLALLZOMBIES
Single-player alternative to Waking Knightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Waking Knightmare.
#KILLALLZOMBIES is an insane twin-stick zombie shooter with Twitch streaming interactions, where you survive hordes of zombies on a dynamically changing arena and spectators may affect gameplay via special Twitch chat commands.
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Nation Red
Single-player alternative to Waking Knightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Waking Knightmare.
Nation Red is an ultra fast infinite play arena-based shooter providing an exceptional close-quarter battlefield experience. Fight thousands of zombie mutants and their bosses in frantic bloody gameplay while earning close to 100 perks. Fight in Barricade, Survival or Free Play mode.