Single-player games like Pest Apocalypse
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Pest Apocalypse, 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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Drift Survivor
Single-player alternative to Pest Apocalypse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pest Apocalypse.
Paying Tribute to Classic Arcade Shooting Games. Drift Survivor is an addictive and fast-paced arcade shooting game that combines "drifting" with a "bullet hell" gameplay style!
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Nautical Survival
Single-player alternative to Pest Apocalypse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pest Apocalypse.
Captain an armed sea vessel to fight off hordes of oceanic terrors! Navigate between outposts to upgrade your boat, equip powerful weapons, manage your economy and hire crew members to your aid in this unique take on the survivors-like formula.
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Nuclear Throne
Single-player alternative to Pest Apocalypse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pest Apocalypse.
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?
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Kitty's Last Adventure
Single-player alternative to Pest Apocalypse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Pest Apocalypse.
Cute Survivor where you play as Kitty the cat aboard her flying cat-saucer🛸 created by her distraught human.
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FISH FEAR ME
Single-player alternative to Pest Apocalypse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pest Apocalypse.
A top-down action roguelite about catching fish, fighting them, selling their bones, and catching more fish. Upgrade your boat and weapons, hunt down sea monster bounties, delve into eldritch mysteries, and try to pay off a cosmic debt millennia in the making.
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Earl vs. the Mutants
Single-player alternative to Pest Apocalypse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Pest Apocalypse.
Save humanity in a mutant-ridden apocalypse! Dive headfirst into Earl vs. the Mutants, a high-octane top-down survival action-roguelite set in the aftermath of a nuclear apocalypse.
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ARRIVAL: ZERO EARTH
Single-player alternative to Pest Apocalypse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pest Apocalypse.
Fight giant War of the Worlds -style aliens invading Finland during a Winter in the 90's. Build an army of local townspeople in this chaotic semi-autobattler roguelike. Navigate through different biomes to obliterate the aliens from cosmic dimensions.
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FatalZone
Single-player alternative to Pest Apocalypse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pest Apocalypse.
FatalZone is an auto shooter with roguelike and RPG elements set in a savage world of zombies. Exterminate zombie hordes, collect resources, upgrade your camp, and level up mercenaries. Humanity must survive at any cost!
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Vampire Survivors
Single-player alternative to Pest Apocalypse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pest Apocalypse.
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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Crazy Taxi
Single-player alternative to Pest Apocalypse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Racing with Pest Apocalypse.
Hey hey, come on over and have some fun with Crrrrrazy Taxi! Barrel through traffic packed streets, hurdle off parking garages, and Crazy Combo your way to Crazy Money in a wild frantic race to scare up the most fares. In Crazy Taxi, time is money, and only the Craziest Cabbies come out victorious.
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Champion Shift
Single-player alternative to Pest Apocalypse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Pest Apocalypse.
Unleash mighty Champions in this thrilling co-op bullet heaven. Shift into battle, create builds with unique abilities, and battle endless enemies to stop the Dominion's path of conquest. Rev through high octane missions, conquer epic bosses, and become an absolute legend!
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Cars, Girls and Rock 'n' Roll
Single-player alternative to Pest Apocalypse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Racing with Pest Apocalypse.
Cars, Girls and Rock 'n' Roll is an immersive racing game that transports players to the golden era of automobiles, where powerful cars with full tanks of gasoline raced into the sunset.
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Wizard's Way Out
Single-player alternative to Pest Apocalypse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pest Apocalypse.
A small puzzle game about getting out of big trouble! Trapped in a prison, a Wizard uses telekinesis to push and pull their way out and escape together with newfound friends!