Single-player games like Forestrike
Below are 19 single-player Steam games similar to Forestrike, 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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Animation VERSUS
Single-player alternative to Forestrike — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Forestrike.
Animation VERSUS is an action-fighting game based on Animator vs. Animation, the hit YouTube series. Play locally with friends, test your skills in Online VS, and explore the world of Internet Space in a single-player or co-op Story Mode - plus a challenging Roguelite gauntlet!
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CHOPSTICKS: Stick Figure Fighting
Single-player alternative to Forestrike — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Forestrike.
CHOPSTICKS is a stick figure fighting game set across the globe. With just one attack button and a focus on parrying, strategy is key. Each map opens up unique gameplay opportunities with map specific elements: from giant lasers to sticks that can be used as swords!
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Flame Up
Single-player alternative to Forestrike — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Forestrike.
Flame Up is a simplistic fighting game with no jumping, no blocking, no health, and no fuss, only you and your neutral. Featuring easy to learn systems, intuitive controls, and ROLLBACK NETCODE.
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生命火热 / Desperate 1
Single-player alternative to Forestrike — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Forestrike.
The first work of the "Desperate" series - After Sunset, it’s a horizontal 2D action game with hand-painted, and using a new keyboard operation, you can feel a more intuitive combat experience in this game. Fight for the thing you loved in your life in every street you pass by!
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Generic Fighter Maybe
Single-player alternative to Forestrike — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Forestrike.
A classic arcade-style 2D Fighting Game, wrapped up in a goofy, full-of-energy, stylized presentation that mixes great animation and zany battle moves with simplistic doodles!
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Impound Rumble
Single-player alternative to Forestrike — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Forestrike.
Impound Rumble is an upcoming indie platform fighter bursting with personality! Rumble online with rollback or offline in a co-op story mode or duke it out PvP-style. Pop-off and go crazy with Turbo Mode and send friends and foes flying through stages that adapt to the chaos you create!
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Forest Fighters
Single-player alternative to Forestrike — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Forestrike.
Pure old-school arcade puzzle-battle with strategic depth. Build megablocks, trigger chains to send junk flying in the other camp. Counter incoming attacks through careful timing. 23 characters, each playing uniquely. No pay-to-win.
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Breakdown: Silent Riot
Single-player alternative to Forestrike — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Forestrike.
A brutal, narrative-driven beat ’em up set in a dark Eastern European city. Hunted by the mafia, you fight to survive through precise, close-quarters combat with no easy wins, while something inside you begins to break and violence turns into obsession.
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SONOKUNI
Single-player alternative to Forestrike — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Forestrike.
Battle your way through a biopunk and Japanese mythology-inspired landscape filled with over-the-top, hip hop-infused 2D action. A single hit means death, but use your time-bending skills to take down your oppressors and you might yet save your dying nation.
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Shogun Showdown
Single-player alternative to Forestrike — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Forestrike.
Shogun Showdown is a turn-based combat game with rogue-like and deck-building elements. Position yourself and attack at the right time, upgrade your tiles and combo them to get ready to face the Shogun!
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Into the Breach
Single-player alternative to Forestrike — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Forestrike.
Control powerful mechs from the future to defeat an alien threat. Each attempt to save the world presents a new randomly generated challenge in this turn-based strategy game.
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Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition
Single-player alternative to Forestrike — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Forestrike.
Game of the Year - The Game Awards 2019 Best Action Game of 2019 - IGN Carve your own clever path to vengeance in the award winning adventure from developer FromSoftware, creators of Bloodborne and the Dark Souls series. Take Revenge. Restore Your Honor. Kill Ingeniously.
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Midnight Fight Express
Single-player alternative to Forestrike — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Forestrike.
A former member of the criminal underworld is lured back into “the life” by a mysterious drone claiming they have until sunrise to prevent a citywide criminal takeover together.
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Sifu
Single-player alternative to Forestrike — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Forestrike.
Sifu is a realistic third-person brawler with tight Kung Fu combat mechanics and cinematic martial arts action embarking you on a path for revenge.
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Hotline Miami
Single-player alternative to Forestrike — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Forestrike.
Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat.
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Sekira
Single-player alternative to Forestrike — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Forestrike.
Dark forces are penetrating our world! Help the humble priestess Anachel crush the heads of the Dark Lord and all his minions!
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Olija
Single-player alternative to Forestrike — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Forestrike.
Olija is a game about Faraday's quest, a man shipwrecked then trapped in the mysterious country of Terraphage. Armed with a legendary harpoon, he and other castaways try to leave this hostile country to return to their homelands.
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NINJA SLAYER NEO-SAITAMA IN FLAMES(ニンジャスレイヤー ネオサイタマ炎上)
Single-player alternative to Forestrike — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Forestrike.
A fast-paced action platformer based on the world of Ninja Slayer, a hit manga that sold 4.44 million copies! In the fictional cyberpunk city of Neo-Saitama, take control of Ninja Slayer as he does battle with numerous evil ninjas, all to avenge the death of his wife and child.
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BackSlash
Single-player alternative to Forestrike — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Forestrike.
BackSlash is a spell casting brawler featuring style-mixing, arena destruction, and accelerating duels. Combine two styles to plunge into a dance of destruction through flying blades, bone breaking punches and devastating spells.