Single-player games like EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE, 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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EMPTY SHELL
Single-player alternative to EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE.
EMPTY SHELL will throw you in a dark industrial environment, a secret facility on a Japanese island. Each volunteer has signed a contract for a "recovery operation" without being privy to too many details. A tense roguelite survival horror with a top down perspective.
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Sublevel Zero Redux
Single-player alternative to EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE.
Sublevel Zero Redux is a roguelite six-degree-of-freedom shooter in a universe where reality is falling apart. Use your zero-g gunship to fight through a vast underground facility, looting advanced weapons to destroy hordes of deadly enemies.
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Teleglitch: Die More Edition
Single-player alternative to EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE.
In a cold, dark future dominated by mega-corporations, a small lonely planet on the edge of habitable space is the site of a shadowy research facility specializing in necrotic tissue reactivation. You are a scientist who has suddenly awoken to the realization that you are the lone survivor.
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CRYPTARK
Single-player alternative to EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE.
Cryptark is a 2D sci-fi shooter where you take on the role of a heavily armed privateer seeking to earn government contracts by boarding deadly alien space-hulks. It's up to you to strategize a plan of attack, pick an equipment loadout, and destroy the central core to be victorious.
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BELOW
Single-player alternative to EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE.
BELOW is a solitary journey through the haunted depths of a forbidden isle. Explore. Survive. Discover.
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Hell is Others
Single-player alternative to EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE.
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.
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Heavy Bullets
Single-player alternative to EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE.
Heavy Bullets is a randomized FPS dungeon crawler where players make their way through a colorful maze, while protecting themselves from aggressive creatures and malfunctioning security devices. The goal lies at the end of the 8th level, where they must reset the security mainframe to restore order and reap the rewards.
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Anomaly Agent
Single-player alternative to EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE.
ANOMALY AGENT is a cyberpunk action-adventure featuring fluid combat, a time-bending story, quirky characters and a catchy synthwave soundtrack! Punch or shoot through mobs of enemies, impact the story with your choices and stop the anomalies before the world plunges into chaos!
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GROOD
Single-player alternative to EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE.
GROOD is an indie 2.5D Shoot 'em up made with spare robot parts and Heavy Metal🤘🏻. The gameplay blends classic Shoot 'em up mechanics with modern low poly graphics, particles, shaders, and a hardcore soundtrack. Annihilate an army of machines, and afterward, annihilate their bosses—go all the way to confirm that your battle paid off.
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STHELL
Single-player alternative to EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE.
STHELL is a fast-paced, roguelite arena shooter that takes you to a forgotten swamp that was a test site of Kiratron Industries. Take on hordes of machines left to rust for years. It's a battle you probably won't win, but make a stand and your resilience will be etched in their memory chips forever.