Single-player games like EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE
Below are 11 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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FALL
Single-player alternative to EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE.
In the past, the world was almost invaded by zombies.You will play the commander of the remaining survivor camp, searching for hope for the last surviving companions, forming and assigning your special police squad to explore this post-apocalyptic world filled with zombies!
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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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Genesis Alpha One Deluxe Edition
Single-player alternative to EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE.
Hyperjump into the dark recesses of space with Genesis Alpha One - a roguelike FPS where you must build, maintain and navigate your ship through a galaxy filled with hostile alien and human threats. Explore, create and survive the militarized space race in order to secure humanity’s future.
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KLETKA
Single-player alternative to EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE.
KLETKA is a co-op (up to 6 players) horror game about going down in an elevator that is trying to eat you. Feed the elevator, explore deadly floors and descend deeper.
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bit Dungeon II
Single-player alternative to EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE.
bitDungeon II is fast action-adventure game with a giant overworld to explore. You are a spirit in an undead world of demons. Your "loved one's " grave has been desecrated. Fight through these corrupted lands, and bring peace to her soul.
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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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Eldritch
Single-player alternative to EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE.
Eldritch is the original imsim roguelike: a first-person action game inspired by roguelikes, immersive sims, and H. P. Lovecraft.
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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.
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EMPTY SHELL 2
Single-player alternative to EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE.
Take on the roles of expendable volunteers sent to a forsaken facility on a remote Japanese island. Recover lost data, scavenge for resources, manage your inventory, and endure unspeakable cosmic horrors. In this top-down extraction survival horror, every expedition is a journey back from madness.