Single-player games like Project Tower
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Project Tower, 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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Shadowgrounds
Single-player alternative to Project Tower — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Project Tower.
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...
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Furi
Single-player alternative to Project Tower — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Project Tower.
The jailer is the key, kill him and you’ll be free. Fight your way free in this ultra-responsive, fast-paced sword-fighting and dual-stick shooting game.
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Alien Breed: Impact
Single-player alternative to Project Tower — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Project Tower.
Experience the explosive science fiction arcade-shooter that resurrects a much revered franchise in an epic single player and co-op multiplayer campaign.
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Aliens: Fireteam Elite
Single-player alternative to Project Tower — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Project Tower.
Aliens: Fireteam Elite is a cooperative third-person survival game set in the iconic Alien Universe. Battle through hordes of different types of Xenomorph, customize your character and gear, and level-up as you try to contain this ever-growing threat.
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Remnant: From the Ashes
Single-player alternative to Project Tower — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Project Tower.
The world has been thrown into chaos by an ancient evil from another dimension. As one of the last remnants of humanity, you must set out alone or alongside up to two other survivors to face down hordes of deadly enemies to try to carve a foothold, rebuild, and retake what was lost.
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Lost Planet™: Extreme Condition
Single-player alternative to Project Tower — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Project Tower.
Driven to the brink of extinction on ice-covered wastelands, humankind fights to survive. Battle to survive against gargantuan alien Akrid and treacherous Snow Pirates on the vast and frozen landscape of EDN III.
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Shoot 1UP DX
Single-player alternative to Project Tower — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Project Tower.
Why play shoot 'em ups one ship at a time? Launch them all at once! Unleash an entire armada of ships in Shoot 1UP!
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REMOTE LIFE
Single-player alternative to Project Tower — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Project Tower.
Remote Life is a 2D Side scrolling space shooter (shmup) for PC. Experience a fast paced action game with insane scary graphics, and hyper jump into a brutal-frenetic-techno-alien world. Free the world from this dreadful nightmare before its nauseating breath of horror destroys mankind.
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Returnal™
Single-player alternative to Project Tower — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Project Tower.
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.