Single-player games like Sleep
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Sleep, 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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Hell is Others
Single-player alternative to Sleep — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Sleep.
Hell is Others is an extraction top-down shooter combining roguelike elements. Outside the safety of your apartment lies the noir hellscape that is Century City. A city of endless night that straddles the line between reality and insanity. Explore, hunt, and loot in a place where blood is currency.
- 2
Livelock
Single-player alternative to Sleep — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Sleep.
Livelock is a co-operative top-down shooter where you play solo or with up to two allies to break the cycle of infinite war between machines. As one of the remaining Capital Intellects, your role is to unlock Eden and revive humanity.
- 3
American Fugitive
Single-player alternative to Sleep — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Sleep.
FREE UPDATE; STATE OF EMERGENCY, OUT NOW! Framed for your father’s murder, you’ll need to do whatever it takes to unveil the real culprit. Tackle thrilling missions for the criminal underworld - just don’t let the cops track you down!
- 4
Nuclear Throne
Single-player alternative to Sleep — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Sleep.
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?
- 5
Door Kickers
Single-player alternative to Sleep — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Sleep.
Door Kickers is an innovative realtime strategy game that puts you in charge of a SWAT team and lets you command them during a tactical intervention.
- 6
Alien Swarm
Single-player alternative to Sleep — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Sleep.
Co-operative multiplayer game and complete code base available for free.
- 7
Neon Chrome
Single-player alternative to Sleep — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Sleep.
A masterful combination of top-down shooter and endless replayability with procedural levels. Blast your way through walls & enemies with guns and cybernetic abilities. Install perks from cyber chambers and upgrade your character stats after each death. Can you stop the Overseer?
- 8
Shadowgrounds
Single-player alternative to Sleep — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Sleep.
Shadowgrounds breathes fresh air into the action genre with explosive combat sequences, an innovative weapon upgrade system, and an intriguing storyline. The adrenaline-pumping, top-down gameplay and audiovisual fireworks set the scene for this new action experience which also includes single computer (split keyboard or joystick) co-op...
- 9
The Guard
Single-player alternative to Sleep — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Sleep.
You are on the night shift at the mall. While you were taking your post, your partner went missing. All the time you hear some kind of noise. You need to find out their origin and find your partner. As you pass, you will need to find the keys and open locked rooms.
- 10
The Witch's House
Single-player alternative to Sleep — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Sleep.
There is an old house on the edge of a small town. All the locals have always avoided it, as strange and mysterious events constantly happen there. This time, what happened in this house made the whole city shudder with fear.
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Ghost Village
Single-player alternative to Sleep — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sleep.
My grandmother was originally from the village, but after the environmental disaster that occurred 30 years ago near their settlement, she moved to our city and lived with us.
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Mission: Aliens
Single-player alternative to Sleep — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Sleep.
Sergeant, last night we received a signal that an unknown aircraft of extraterrestrial origin had crashed in the taiga. The locals assured us that at the crash site they observed five creatures very similar to humans, only with gray skin and large almond-shaped eyes.
- 13
DrugRunner
Single-player alternative to Sleep — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Drug Runner is a 3D game in which you have to run along the road and dodge obstacles, on the way collecting bonuses and coins that give you points. If you can jump over the barrier by pressing the "space bar".
- 14
Battle Robots
Single-player alternative to Sleep — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Sleep.
Do you like fast games with the grinding of metal? Try to take part in fights with robots. Your task is to come out of the battle victorious, deftly inflicting crushing blows on your opponent. Upgrade your armor, and then head to the arena to fight. Start playing now!
- 15
307 Racing
Single-player alternative to Sleep — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Circuit racing is the common name for several types of car races, held on special tracks with hard surfaces. The main feature of such competitions is that the track has a closed form (ring).
- 16
Metal Detecting Simulator
Single-player alternative to Sleep — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Sleep.
2D platformer with a view from the top. In the game you have to buy equipment to search for various items. Metal detectors, shovels, will help you in this. You come to the new land, you need to buy land and start searching for gold and coins, as well you will come across junk.