Single-player games like EMPTY SHELL
Below are 14 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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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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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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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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Sublevel Zero Redux
Single-player alternative to EMPTY SHELL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL.
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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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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Hell is Others
Single-player alternative to EMPTY SHELL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL.
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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CRYPTARK
Single-player alternative to EMPTY SHELL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL.
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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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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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.