Single-player games like The Chaos Engine
Below are 22 single-player Steam games similar to The Chaos Engine, 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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Hexapoda
Single-player alternative to The Chaos Engine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Chaos Engine.
After the last human war, gases were spread through the atmosphere making it unbreathable. The richest to fled to orbital colonies and the others took refuge underground. Get ready to fight giant Insects for the future of humanity !
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Meteor Storm
Single-player alternative to The Chaos Engine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Chaos Engine.
Welcome back to 1996! This shared screen space shooter is the perfect 4-player competitive game for some casual fun!
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Eagles of World War 2
Single-player alternative to The Chaos Engine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Chaos Engine.
A fantasy based arcade shooter set in World War 2 with frantic bullet hell shooter style gameplay and a bullet time slo motion mechanic. Take on the enemy forces solo or with a friend either in local co-op or online with STEAM's remote play together.
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Wild Guns Reloaded
Single-player alternative to The Chaos Engine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Chaos Engine.
Wild Guns Reloaded is a fast-paced arcade-style shooter, mixing the Wild West with steampunk. Play as Clint, Annie, Doris, or Bullet the dog with his sentry drone. Grab some friends and play together for some four player action!
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Chronicle: Unit Eight
Single-player alternative to The Chaos Engine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Chaos Engine.
Experience intense arcade-style shooter with bullet hell mechanics and rogue-like elements. Use destructible bullets to defeat waves of enemies and bosses. Can you emerge victorious in this thrilling challenge and take down the Space Pirate?
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HUNTDOWN
Single-player alternative to The Chaos Engine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Chaos Engine.
In the mayhem-filled streets of the future where criminal gangs rule and cops fear to tread, only the bounty hunters can free the city from the corrupt fist of felony. Lay waste to the criminal underworld and make a killing in this hard boiled action comedy arcade shooter.
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Ring Runner: Flight of the Sages
Single-player alternative to The Chaos Engine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Chaos Engine.
Ring Runner combines the fast-paced action of space combat with the rich story and skill variety of an RPG.Trek across the universe in a 30 hour long story-driven campaign based on a companion Sci Fi novel, or challenge 6 scenarios alone, cooperatively, or competitively through local or online multiplayer.
- 8
Guardian Force - Saturn Tribute
Single-player alternative to The Chaos Engine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Chaos Engine.
The Guardians, a secret society wielding the power of the Force, have readied their tanks and intend on crushing the aspirations of the Hammerbolt Empire!
- 9
Pyro the Exterminator
Single-player alternative to The Chaos Engine — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A post-apocalypse story of exterminator with contract to clear a military depot
- 10
Shadowrun Chronicles - Boston Lockdown
Single-player alternative to The Chaos Engine — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Lead your team of Runners to survive a corrupt megacorporation’s intrigue threatening thousands of lives in this new action-strategy game set in the most popular cyberpunk universe of all times – Shadowrun.
- 11
Assassin's Creed® Syndicate
Single-player alternative to The Chaos Engine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Chaos Engine.
London, 1868. Lead your underworld organization in the midst of the Industrial Revolution to break the corrupt stranglehold on the city in a visceral adventure filled with action, intrigue, and brutal combat.
- 12
Art Syndicate
Single-player alternative to The Chaos Engine — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Put your management skills to the test as an art gallery owner, exhibit the most brilliant paintings, create your own, and if you've already broken your moral compass try to snatch some precious artworks from your competition - "Exitus acta probat"!
- 13
Save the settlers
Single-player alternative to The Chaos Engine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Chaos Engine.
This is a tower defense game in which you have to defend a settlement from bloodthirsty creatures.
- 14
The Settlers: New Allies
Single-player alternative to The Chaos Engine — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The Settlers®: New Allies is a strategy game with an in-depth build-up experience and real-time strategic battles.
- 15
Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc
Single-player alternative to The Chaos Engine — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Investigate murders, search for clues and talk to your classmates to prepare for trial. There, you'll engage in deadly wordplay, going back and forth with suspects. Dissect their statements and fire their words back at them to expose their lies! There's only one way to survive—pull the trigger.
- 16
Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair
Single-player alternative to The Chaos Engine — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Jabberwock Island—You and your classmates were ready for fun in the sun until Monokuma returned to restart his murderous game! Trapped in a kill-or-be-killed situation, your only hope rests in solving the island’s mysteries.
- 17
Gigantic: Rampage Edition
Single-player alternative to The Chaos Engine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Chaos Engine.
GO GIGANTIC! THE UNIQUE MOBA HERO SHOOTER RETURNS!
- 18
428: Shibuya Scramble
Single-player alternative to The Chaos Engine — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A kidnapping on the streets of Shibuya brings together a hot-blooded detective, hard-hitting journalist, former gang leader, the head researcher of a big pharma manufacturer and a part-timer stuck in cat costume for a series of events each more unexpected and outrageous than the last.
- 19
THE KING OF FIGHTERS XIV STEAM EDITION
Single-player alternative to The Chaos Engine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Chaos Engine.
THE KING OF FIGHTERS XIV finally hits STEAM! KOF XIV is back with its classic 2D gameplay and "3-on-3 TEAM BATTLE" game system but evolved to 3D! 58 charismatic fighters are about to clash in this new chapter of KOF!
- 20
Double Dragon: Neon
Single-player alternative to The Chaos Engine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Chaos Engine.
BRO-TACULAR! Legendary martial artists, Billy and Jimmy Lee return in this creative re-imagining of the classic beat ‘em up, Double Dragon Neon. Fight your way through countless henchmen including Linda and Abobo on your way to rescue the love of your life, Marian!
- 21
SNK HEROINES Tag Team Frenzy
Single-player alternative to The Chaos Engine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Chaos Engine.
Take control of SNK’s most iconic female characters and battle it out in this crazy tag fighting game featuring a plethora of cute costumes and accessories! With one button special moves and a deep but simplified combo system this is a great game for fighting game fans and newcomers alike!
- 22
Deadlight: Director's Cut
Single-player alternative to The Chaos Engine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Chaos Engine.
A zombie outbreak eradicated all hope of returning life back to normal, now only survival lives on. Run, hide and fight your way through the undead as Randall searches for his family in this gorgeous, gritty, destroyed world.