Single-player games like Extra Lives
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Extra Lives, 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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Infinite Lives
Single-player alternative to Extra Lives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Extra Lives.
Explore infinite possibilities with INFINITE LIVES - where superhumans and subhumans fight for control of the ultimate shared universe! Bursting into the 3rd dimension brings new powers with unprecedented freedom, in a vicious cycle that never ends...
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Old School
Single-player alternative to Extra Lives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Extra Lives.
Relive your school days in 3D, where old school graphics bring back timeless fun! Create your own star student and attend a schedule full of classes in time to gather the knowledge you need to thrive, while an equally important popularity contest challenges you survive...
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Hard Time III
Single-player alternative to Extra Lives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Extra Lives.
The toughest prison sim in the yard is back to serve its 3rd consecutive sentence - combining classic moments from the OG with the best aspects of 2D, while putting out a few hits of its own! Tackle crime from either side of the prison fence, while a larger world beyond it makes life worth living.
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How to Survive
Single-player alternative to Extra Lives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Extra Lives.
“A real Gem” – Destructoid at E3 “Offers a different experience for zombie game veterans” – Co-Optimus“Has a lot more going for it than smashing brains and gory, red goo ... With a surprisingly deep crafting system” – GamesRadarYou're shipwrecked on an isolated island, a desperate castaway in a total freakshow world. How will you survive?
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Contagion
Single-player alternative to Extra Lives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Extra Lives.
Contagion isn't your average Zombie Shooter but instead takes a more realistic and different approach to the popular genre with unique characters, environments, weapons, items, and a built in system that makes every round completely unpredictable with resources, objectives, and paths ever changing.
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Hyper Light Drifter
Single-player alternative to Extra Lives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Extra Lives.
Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.
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Terror of Hemasaurus
Single-player alternative to Extra Lives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Extra Lives.
A retro city smash 'em up with satisfying destruction physics. Play as a Giant Monster unleashing terror upon mankind in this modern arcade experience with the action turned up to eleven.
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Guns, Gore & Cannoli
Single-player alternative to Extra Lives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Extra Lives.
Guns, Gore & Cannoli - An over-the-top, comical and fast-paced action game with hand-drawn graphics set in the Roaring Twenties. An all-you-can-shoot fest where you embody Vinnie, a mobster with a mission in a city controlled by gangsters and plagued by zombies. Featuring up to 4-man local co-op.
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The Walking Dead
Single-player alternative to Extra Lives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Extra Lives.
A five-part adventure horror series set in the same universe as Robert Kirkman’s award-winning comic book series.
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Hard Time
Single-player alternative to Extra Lives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Extra Lives.
The toughest prison sim in the yard has been locked back up to serve another sentence in 2D!
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RoboCo
Single-player alternative to Extra Lives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Extra Lives.
RoboCo is a sandbox game about designing and building robots to serve the needs of squishy, hapless humans in the world of tomorrow!
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RoboCop: Rogue City
Single-player alternative to Extra Lives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Extra Lives.
Become the legendary part man, part machine, all cop hero and deliver justice in Old Detroit.
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Wrestling Empire
Single-player alternative to Extra Lives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Extra Lives.
The lightweight champion of wrestling comes full circle with higher resolution visuals and a smoother frame rate - whilst still retaining the retro style that puts the fun first! Now featuring whole other booking & roaming modes at no extra cost for the biggest Triple Threat in wrestling.
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Wrestling Revolution 3D
Single-player alternative to Extra Lives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Extra Lives.
The original 3D wrestling sim takes you either side of the curtain in one epic shared universe - where you can either take shots in the ring as a wrestler or call the shots backstage as a booker!
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Wrestling Revolution 2D
Single-player alternative to Extra Lives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Extra Lives.
The original 2D wrestling sim brings the revolution to your desktop - where it now includes BOTH sides of the business in one epic universe!
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The You Testament: The 2D Coming
Single-player alternative to Extra Lives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Extra Lives.
This 2D remake of the biblical epic puts YOU on the scene of each story, where you can either repeat history or rewrite it! Follow in the footsteps of a prophet as he seeks to enlighten the masses, and find your place among them as the struggle to survive tests your faith...