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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M.O.O.D.S.
Single-player alternative to Nuclear Throne — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nuclear Throne.
Grab a gun and take down hostile robots corrupted by synthetic emotions! Combine weapon modifications and wreak havoc in this roguelite shooter. Let your emotions shape combat and alter boss fights! Fight alone or join up with up to 4 players!
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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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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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Bounty of One
Single-player alternative to Nuclear Throne — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nuclear Throne.
Fallen hero of the Wild West, you’re wanted and in disgrace! Grab your guns, survive endless hordes of bounty hunters and fight to clear your name! Bounty of One is a fast-paced casual roguelite bullet hell for 1 to 4 players. Dash, Dodge, Shoot, Repeat!
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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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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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Mega City Force
Single-player alternative to Nuclear Throne — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nuclear Throne.
Retrowave Action Roguelike featuring tough agents battling crime to the electrifying music of artists like Droid Bishop, Timecop1983, and more! Choose your agent and dive into hardcore action against enemies and bosses, utilizing a vast arsenal and special abilities that will define your playstyle
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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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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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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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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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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.
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ULTRABUGS
Single-player alternative to Nuclear Throne — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nuclear Throne.
Vlambeer's ULTRABUGS is a fast-paced high-score game in which you fight endless space bugs that split up into MORE space bugs as you fight and defeat them.