Single-player games like Wanted Shadows
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Wanted Shadows, 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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Skybreakers
Single-player alternative to Wanted Shadows — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Wanted Shadows.
Skybreakers is an action roguelike thriller. Choose from various characters, arm yourself with a vast array of weapons, and create your own unique build by combining artifacts, random talents, abilities, and bonds. Plunge into exhilarating combat and use unique abilities to defeat the evil.
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Headbangers in Holiday Hell
Single-player alternative to Wanted Shadows — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Wanted Shadows.
Christmas. Christmas never changes. Soon those overzealous little freaks will swarm the city led by that bearded maniac. But this time, we fight back. Inspired by Zombies Ate My Neighbors and Beavis&Butthead's heavy metal comedy, this is twin-stick mayhem like you've never experienced before.
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Sharded World
Single-player alternative to Wanted Shadows — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Wanted Shadows.
Sharded World is a reversed bullet hell, rogue-lite, ARPG game combining simple gameplay and great rpg progression. Each level has its own unique features and challenges. Upgradable characters, weapons and orbs. Challenges, daily quests, and leaderboards. Fight, get stronger and defeat the Lich!
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Wildkeepers Rising
Single-player alternative to Wanted Shadows — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Wanted Shadows.
Tame monsters! Slay waves of enemy hordes! Explore fantasy lands! Wildkeepers Rising is a whimsical action-RPG roguelite set in a beautiful hand-drawn world that combines the power curve of bullet heaven games with the compulsive fun of a creature collector.
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God's Trigger
Single-player alternative to Wanted Shadows — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Wanted Shadows.
Slay enemies with speed and precision in an over-the-top show of blood and explosions. Play solo or with others, make split-second decisions, dodge bullets, and use weapons and abilities to inflict violence in the most graphic way possible.
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Insect Swarm
Single-player alternative to Wanted Shadows — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Wanted Shadows.
The insect swarm is a swarm consists of millions of alien insects, and you, as the only survival on this barren planet, will have to fight against them dauntlessly. Good luck!
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Trinity Fusion
Single-player alternative to Wanted Shadows — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Wanted Shadows.
Three fractured realities. One collapsing multiverse. Fast, fluid combat in a dark sci-fi Roguevania where each run begins in a separate universe — then lets you fuse your parallel selves, powers, and worlds to create brutal, ever-evolving builds.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate
Single-player alternative to Wanted Shadows — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Wanted Shadows.
TMNT Splintered Fate - Unleash the Turtles in a roguelike quest to rescue Splinter from the Foot Clan! Master ninja skills, unite in bodacious co-op gameplay, and conquer iconic NYC locales.
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Vampire Survivors
Single-player alternative to Wanted Shadows — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Wanted Shadows.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
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Risk of Rain (2013)
Single-player alternative to Wanted Shadows — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Wanted Shadows.
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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Risk of Rain 2
Single-player alternative to Wanted Shadows — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Wanted Shadows.
Escape a chaotic alien planet by fighting through hordes of frenzied monsters – with your friends, or on your own. Combine loot in surprising ways and master each character until you become the havoc you feared upon your first crash landing.
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Brotato
Single-player alternative to Wanted Shadows — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Wanted Shadows.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
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20 Minutes Till Dawn
Single-player alternative to Wanted Shadows — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Wanted Shadows.
20 Minutes Till Dawn is a survival roguelite where endless hordes of creatures lurk from the dark. Craft an array of overpowering builds and eradicate waves of Lovecraftian nightmares. Will you be able to survive the night?
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The Outbound Ghost
Single-player alternative to Wanted Shadows — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Wanted Shadows.
The Outbound Ghost is an adventure RPG about helping ghosts ascend to the afterlife. Battle the past using figments of your personality. Craft badges to earn abilities. Explore a town of troubled spooks and discover life can be tough, even when you're dead.
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Soul Stalker
Single-player alternative to Wanted Shadows — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Wanted Shadows.
A bullet heaven roguelike where you assume the role of the steward of ghosts bound to eternal life on earth. Wield 4 to 6 weapons simultaneously to fend off waves of apparitions determined to defeat your spirited friends.