Single-player games like Slayer
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Slayer, 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.
Want the full alternatives list (paid + free + Steam Deck + cheaper picks)? See the parent games like Slayer page.
Ranked picks
- 1

Rampage Knights
Single-player alternative to Slayer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Slayer.
Rampage Knights is a cooperative beat 'em up game mixed up with randomized dungeon crawling and exploration, which you can play alone or with a friend online.
- 2

Abyss Odyssey
Single-player alternative to Slayer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Slayer.
From indie Chilean developer ACE Team comes a new side-scrolling action adventure game featuring a complex fighting engine in procedurally generated levels that destines its three warriors to battle a different abyss each time! Choose your hero and also learn to possess your enemies in the abyss…
- 3

Nuclear Throne
Single-player alternative to Slayer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Slayer.
Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?
- 4

Left 4 Dead 2
Single-player alternative to Slayer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Slayer.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
- 5

Deadzone: Rogue
Single-player alternative to Slayer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Slayer.
Deadzone: Rogue is a roguelite FPS set in space. Blast through swarms of hostile machines, combine powerful augments and elements to forge your build, and grow stronger with each run — solo or in co-op.
- 6

The Flame in the Flood
Single-player alternative to Slayer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Slayer.
A rogue-like river journey through the backwaters of a forgotten post-societal America. Forage, craft, evade predators.
- 7

SKYHILL
Single-player alternative to Slayer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Slayer.
World War III is over, the world's infested with mutants and your supplies are running out. Fight your way down this damned hotel, from your penthouse on top to the first floor. Craft weapons, search for food and reach the exit. Otherwise you'll be torn apart, starve to death or maybe both...
- 8

Killing Floor 2
Single-player alternative to Slayer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Slayer.
In KILLING FLOOR 2, players descend into continental Europe after it has been overrun by horrific, murderous clones called Zeds that were created by rogue elements of the Horzine Corporation. 6-player Co-Op & 12-player VS Zed-slaughtering mayhem.