Single-player games like The Black Pool
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to The Black Pool, 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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Rift Loopers
Single-player alternative to The Black Pool — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Black Pool.
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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Shoulders of Giants: Ultimate
Single-player alternative to The Black Pool — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with The Black Pool.
Simultaneously control a sword-wielding robot and a gunslinging space frog in Shoulders of Giants, an explosively colourful sci-fi roguelike. Play alone, with a friend, or as part of a four-person team, cutting through waves of enemies on a quest to rescue the galaxy from the forces of Entropy!
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Vellum
Single-player alternative to The Black Pool — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Black Pool.
Write on! Defend the books in Vellum, a co-op, literary roguelike! Harness class-defining colors, master an inspired spellbook, and influence the growth of your enemy! As a group or solo, you'll craft plot-twisting builds to rewrite the rules in Ink!
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Superior: Vengeance
Single-player alternative to The Black Pool — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Black Pool.
Make your way through a sprawling, hyper-stylized superhero universe on the hunt for superheroes turned evil. Save the world in this roguelite, 3rd-person co-op shooter by stealing powers and engaging in extraordinary combat using hundreds of unique superpowers, weapons, and abilities.
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Rogue Stormers
Single-player alternative to The Black Pool — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Black Pool.
An action packed platform shooter mashed-up with roguelike and RPG elements, crazy 3D graphics and co-op multiplayer for one to 4 players.
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ENDLESS™ Dungeon - Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to The Black Pool — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Black Pool.
ENDLESS™ Dungeon is a Rogue-lite Tactical Action game, set in the award-winning ENDLESS™ Universe. Recruit a team of shipwrecked heroes, plunge into a long-abandoned space station, and protect your crystal against never-ending waves of monsters… or die trying, get reloaded, and try again.
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MOTHERGUNSHIP
Single-player alternative to The Black Pool — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Black Pool.
MOTHERGUNSHIP is a bullet-hell FPS where you craft your own guns, fight gigantic bosses, and defeat a robotic alien armada that conquered Earth. Face off against overwhelming odds in brutal, non-stop combats where thinking on your feet is the only way to survive.
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Streets of Rogue
Single-player alternative to The Black Pool — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Black Pool.
Fight, sneak, and hack your way through randomly generated cities. It's like Nuclear Throne meets Deus Ex, mixed with the anarchy of GTA. Rogue-lite meets immersive sim, and goes completely insane.
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Risk of Rain 2
Single-player alternative to The Black Pool — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Black Pool.
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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Returnal™
Single-player alternative to The Black Pool — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Black Pool.
BREAK THE CYCLE Fight to survive as this award-winning third-person shooter brings Selene’s story to PC. Take on roguelike challenges. Engage enemies in bullet hell-fuelled clashes. Share your journey through Returnal™ with another player.
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Crab Champions
Single-player alternative to The Black Pool — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Black Pool.
Claw your way across exotic islands combining fluid movement with fast paced combat to become a Crab Champion in this third person roguelike shooter.
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Exodus Borealis
Single-player alternative to The Black Pool — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
In this city builder and tower defense game, you will command a small band of ship wrecked colonists. Progress from struggling to survive the elements to a thriving kingdom that will smash the demon hordes that dare attack your settlement.