Single-player games like Hookscrap
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Hookscrap, 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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Mach K9
Single-player alternative to Hookscrap — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Hookscrap.
Physics roguelite. Smash aliens out of the arena to defeat them. Choose upgrades after each wave, and complete every wave to win. Unlock additional upgrades as you play.
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HyperParasite
Single-player alternative to Hookscrap — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hookscrap.
A rogue-lite twin-stick shooter/brawler that never plays the same twice. Collect and control 60 different characters as the body-snatching alien Parasite with a grudge against humanity. Fight to the top of the food chain: possess the President, push the Big Red Button and one-up the human race.
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Heat Signature
Single-player alternative to Hookscrap — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hookscrap.
Heat Signature is a game from the developers of Gunpoint where you break into spaceships, make terrible mistakes, and think of clever ways out of them. You take a mission, fly to the target ship, sneak inside, and make clever use of your gadgets to distract, ambush and take out the crew.
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CRYPTARK
Single-player alternative to Hookscrap — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hookscrap.
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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Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor
Single-player alternative to Hookscrap — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Hookscrap.
DEEP ROCK GALACTIC: SURVIVOR is a single player survivor-like auto-shooter. Take on hordes of lethal aliens, mine riches, and unlock powerful upgrades to survive, as you wield the full arsenal of Deep Rock Galactic. It's one dwarf against all of Planet Hoxxes!
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Rogue Spirit
Single-player alternative to Hookscrap — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hookscrap.
Rogue Spirit is a 3D rogue-lite action game with light stealth elements. Play as the Ghost of the Prince of the Kingdom of Midra, possess enemy characters and absorb their unique skills to fight the evil presence that has corrupted your land.
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Transcendence
Single-player alternative to Hookscrap — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hookscrap.
Explore the farthest reaches of Human Space in this open-world space adventure. Compelled to journey to the Galactic Core by a mysterious hyperintelligence, you must fight your way through dozens of star systems teeming with clashing empires, expansionist AIs, and fearsome xenophobes.
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RymdResa
Single-player alternative to Hookscrap — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hookscrap.
A relaxed roguelike space odyssey in a procedurally generated universe! Travel through a lonely and mysterious cosmos. Customize your ship, explore and survive!