Single-player games like EMPTY SHELL
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to EMPTY SHELL, 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: PROLOGUE
Single-player alternative to EMPTY SHELL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL.
EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE 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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Blade of the Netherworld
Single-player alternative to EMPTY SHELL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL.
Blade of the Netherworld is a fast-paced 2D Roguelite platformer. Don divine masks as a Yin-Yang Enforcer, slashing through the underworld to defeat gods, demons, and spirits. Combine a variety of items, master combat skills, and create limitless, high-speed carnage with a free-form action system.
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Nuclear Throne
Single-player alternative to EMPTY SHELL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL.
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?
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bit Dungeon II
Single-player alternative to EMPTY SHELL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL.
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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KLETKA
Single-player alternative to EMPTY SHELL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL.
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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Blazing Beaks
Single-player alternative to EMPTY SHELL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL.
Roguelite - where too much greediness can be fatal. A colorful world with armed birds blazing their way through piles of mutants, monsters and creepy creatures. Lots of mysteries to unravel, secrets to discover and levels to explore.
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Army of Ruin
Single-player alternative to EMPTY SHELL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL.
Wreak havoc on countless foes with mighty weapons and deadly spells! Enhance your skills and face even greater dangers! Army of Ruin is an auto-shooter where you become the Bullet Hell.
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Power of Ten
Single-player alternative to EMPTY SHELL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL.
Fly a star-fighter against a bloodthirsty armada. Gather weapons, resources, and upgrades to help you push back the relentless assault while protecting the galaxies' civilians!
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Hotline Miami
Single-player alternative to EMPTY SHELL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL.
Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat.
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Teleglitch: Die More Edition
Single-player alternative to EMPTY SHELL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL.
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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Darkwood
Single-player alternative to EMPTY SHELL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with EMPTY SHELL.
Darkwood - a new perspective on survival horror. Scavenge and explore a rich, ever-changing free-roam world by day, then hunker down in your hideout and pray for the morning light.
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The Thing from Nowhere
Single-player alternative to EMPTY SHELL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with EMPTY SHELL.
Travel to a remote town in Alaska and uncover the truth behind reported sightings of a mythical creature from ancient Inuit folklore. A Choose Your Own Adventure mystery set in the 1950s, inspired by classic monster movies and Amiga's "It Came from the Desert".
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Resident Evil 4
Single-player alternative to EMPTY SHELL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with EMPTY SHELL.
Survival is just the beginning. Six years have passed since the biological disaster in Raccoon City. Leon S. Kennedy, one of the survivors, tracks the president's kidnapped daughter to a secluded European village, where there is something terribly wrong with the locals.
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GROOD
Single-player alternative to EMPTY SHELL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL.
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 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with EMPTY SHELL.
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 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL.
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.