Single-player games like Nuclear Throne
Below are 20 single-player Steam games similar to Nuclear Throne, 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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Enter the Gungeon
Single-player alternative to Nuclear Throne — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nuclear Throne.
Enter the Gungeon is a bullet hell dungeon crawler following a band of misfits seeking to shoot, loot, dodge roll and table-flip their way to personal absolution by reaching the legendary Gungeon’s ultimate treasure: the gun that can kill the past.
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Risk of Rain (2013)
Single-player alternative to Nuclear Throne — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nuclear Throne.
Risk of Rain is an action platformer with roguelike elements. With permanent death as a primary feature, players will have to play their best to get as far as possible. Fight on a mysterious planet with randomly spawning enemies and bosses, either alone or with 3 friends in online co-op.
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Blazing Beaks
Single-player alternative to Nuclear Throne — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nuclear Throne.
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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Neon Chrome
Single-player alternative to Nuclear Throne — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nuclear Throne.
A masterful combination of top-down shooter and endless replayability with procedural levels. Blast your way through walls & enemies with guns and cybernetic abilities. Install perks from cyber chambers and upgrade your character stats after each death. Can you stop the Overseer?
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Crypt of the NecroDancer
Single-player alternative to Nuclear Throne — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nuclear Throne.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
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NeuroVoider
Single-player alternative to Nuclear Throne — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nuclear Throne.
NeuroVoider is a twin-stick shooter RPG set in a cyber futuristic world about brains shooting around evil robots with nuclear rocket launchers. Battle through the horde of vigilant robots, boost your character with the smoking remains of your victims, and defeat the master NeuroVoider.
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Dead Cells
Single-player alternative to Nuclear Throne — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nuclear Throne.
Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.
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Spelunky
Single-player alternative to Nuclear Throne — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Nuclear Throne.
Spelunky is a unique platformer with randomized levels that offer a challenging new experience each time you play. Journey deep underground and explore fantastic places filled with all manner of monsters, traps, and treasure.
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The Binding of Isaac
Single-player alternative to Nuclear Throne — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nuclear Throne.
Now 20% More Evil with the Free Halloween update!
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Hotline Miami
Single-player alternative to Nuclear Throne — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nuclear Throne.
Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat.
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Furi
Single-player alternative to Nuclear Throne — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nuclear Throne.
The jailer is the key, kill him and you’ll be free. Fight your way free in this ultra-responsive, fast-paced sword-fighting and dual-stick shooting game.
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Slay the Spire
Single-player alternative to Nuclear Throne — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Nuclear Throne.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
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Smash
Single-player alternative to Nuclear Throne — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Nuclear Throne.
Click on the mouse left button to destroy the glass pyramids & push away the obstacles. Stay focused and concentrate on the path destroy every pyramid and push away obstacles coming in the path.
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Nex Machina
Single-player alternative to Nuclear Throne — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nuclear Throne.
Nex Machina is an intense arcade style twin-stick shooter from Housemarque. Taking hints from both Robotron and Smash TV, Nex Machina focuses on pure action, voxel destruction and competition in the distant, cablepunk themed future.
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KILL KNIGHT
Single-player alternative to Nuclear Throne — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Nuclear Throne.
KILL KNIGHT is an ultra-responsive arcade-inspired isometric action shooter. Condemned to eternal sufferance, deep within the voids of an eldritch arena, you must wield an arsenal of devastating weaponry to obliterate swarms of otherworldly horrors - and MASTER THE DEMON WITHIN.
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Flashes of Chaos
Single-player alternative to Nuclear Throne — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Nuclear Throne.
A fast-paced roguelike top-down shooter about building brutal guns. Collect ammunition cards, add modifiers, and load them into your weapon of choice to create your own unique experience of pure, adrenaline-fueled destruction.
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LUFTRAUSERS
Single-player alternative to Nuclear Throne — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nuclear Throne.
The skies are aflame and the seas will overflow with wreckage in Vlambeer’s stylish arcade shooter LUFTRAUSERS! Take to the skies in customized fighter planes to battle battleships, submarines, and rival aces for glory, honor, and high scores.
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Serious Sam: The Random Encounter
Single-player alternative to Nuclear Throne — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nuclear Throne.
Choose your weapons and take aim at the most random Serious Sam adventure yet!
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Super Crate Box
Single-player alternative to Nuclear Throne — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nuclear Throne.
Vlambeer's SUPER CRATE BOX is coming to bring back the glory of the golden arcade age, when all that really mattered was getting on that high score list. Grab your baseball cap and loosen your pants, it's time to fight endless hordes of enemies and collect every weapon crate you can.
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GUN GODZ
Single-player alternative to Nuclear Throne — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nuclear Throne.
GUN GODZ is a first person shooter about gun, gangster rap and the rich culture of Venus. Featuring a fully Venusian soundtrack by Jukio 'KOZILEK' Kallio and a single English track with rap lyrics by Adam 'Doseone' Kidd.