Single-player games like Survivor Mercs
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Survivor Mercs, 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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Nuclear Throne
Single-player alternative to Survivor Mercs — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Survivor Mercs.
Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?
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Battle Planet - Judgement Day
Single-player alternative to Survivor Mercs — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Survivor Mercs.
Battle Planet - Judgement Day is a planetary rogue-lite top-down shooter. You are one of the universe's 3 most wanted criminals on the run, fighting your way through hordes of aliens, military and police units. There is only one way to reclaim your freedom - destroy them all...
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Blazing Beaks
Single-player alternative to Survivor Mercs — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Survivor Mercs.
Roguelite - where too much greediness can be fatal. A colorful world with armed birds blazing their way through piles of mutants, monsters and creepy creatures. Lots of mysteries to unravel, secrets to discover and levels to explore.
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Destropolis
Single-player alternative to Survivor Mercs — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Survivor Mercs.
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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Shape Shifter: Formations
Single-player alternative to Survivor Mercs — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Survivor Mercs.
Shape Shifter: Formations is an action twin-stick shooter with rogue-lite elements, where you must destroy hordes of geometric enemies alone or with a friend. Select your ship and combine a large variety of weapons, abilities and infinitely stacking upgrades to craft your own unique build.
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FatalZone
Single-player alternative to Survivor Mercs — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Survivor Mercs.
FatalZone is an auto shooter with roguelike and RPG elements set in a savage world of zombies. Exterminate zombie hordes, collect resources, upgrade your camp, and level up mercenaries. Humanity must survive at any cost!
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Serious Sam: Tormental
Single-player alternative to Survivor Mercs — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Survivor Mercs.
Serious Sam: Tormental is a 3D rogue-lite top-down shooter where you blast your way through the tormented mind of demigod of destruction Mental, as he imagines worlds and monsters that stand on your path towards his inner ego. Let the showdown begin!
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Rift Loopers
Single-player alternative to Survivor Mercs — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Survivor Mercs.
Survive the horrors of the multiverse, alone or with your comrades, as you battle against an onslaught of insectoid like creatures. Combine abilities in different ways each loop to overcome and return safely to your universe.
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Vampire Survivors
Single-player alternative to Survivor Mercs — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Survivor Mercs.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
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Yet Another Zombie Survivors
Single-player alternative to Survivor Mercs — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Survivor Mercs.
The Horde is coming but you're ready to fight it! Assemble your team and decide upon their enhancements to find the most efficient synergies against thousands of the undead. Survive. Then evolve. Then break all the limits in this deceivingly simple but addictive bullet heaven game.
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Boneraiser Minions
Single-player alternative to Survivor Mercs — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Survivor Mercs.
Amass an army of undead to fight endless waves of heroes intent to end your boneraising ways! In this gothic auto-battler rogue-lite Survivor-like, use the bones of slain heroes to raise your minions, collect relics and spells, and unlock meta upgrades, all to survive King Gigald's crusade!
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Halls of Torment
Single-player alternative to Survivor Mercs — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Survivor Mercs.
Slay hordes of terrifying monsters in this horde survival roguelite. Descend into the Halls of Torment where the Lords of the underworld await you. Treasures, magical trinkets, and a growing cast of heroes will grant you the power to vanquish these horrors from beyond. How long can you survive?
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Death Must Die
Single-player alternative to Survivor Mercs — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Survivor Mercs.
Descend the nether in search of Death himself! Choose from God-given powers to slay his hordes of minions. Unlock new heroes, collect powerful items and create game-breaking synergies in this roguelite hack and slash survivors game.