Single-player games like NineLives
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to NineLives, 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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Shieldmaiden: Remix Edition
Single-player alternative to NineLives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with NineLives.
The end of the world just started and everyone is gone. The machines took over and your only goal is to look for your missing sister in a retro wave atmosphere. Fight and find your way into the danger with your shield in this vibrant pixel art world.
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White Hell
Single-player alternative to NineLives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with NineLives.
White Hell is a retro-style first-person shooter set in a frost-bound Finland after the apocalypse.
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Bizzare Cat Rescuer
Single-player alternative to NineLives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with NineLives.
A strange homeless-looking man unsuccessfully tries to escape from an equally strange schizophrenic self-destructing world in 10 minutes, saving cats along the way. It is completely unclear what is happening. And it will not become clearer...
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MindKatt:First Strike
Single-player alternative to NineLives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with NineLives.
An action-adventure game set in a dystopian future where mentally evolved cats fight for their freedom using robotic suits to interact with the human world.
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Hack Fate
Single-player alternative to NineLives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with NineLives.
Hack Fate is a fast-paced, cyberpunk pixel-style hack-and-slash action game. In a flash of lightning, control time and space, switch identities, and deliver swift, fatal blows to all enemies. But if it's the heavens you're up against? Then you shall hack fate itself.
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Oddworld: Soulstorm Enhanced Edition
Single-player alternative to NineLives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with NineLives.
Oddworld: Soulstorm is the explosive second game in a brand new Oddworld Quintology that tells the continuing story of Abe and his comrades as they discover further crimes against Mudokonkind and look for the spark that will ignite a revolution.
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Loopmancer
Single-player alternative to NineLives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with NineLives.
Loopmancer is a 3D platformer roguelite action game with realistic graphics that takes place in a cyberpunk universe. Players play as a detective who comes back to life after an unexpected death, and battle in this lifelike and futuristic city of the east.
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SANABI
Single-player alternative to NineLives — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with NineLives.
SANABI is an exhilarating stylish dystopian action-platformer. Play as a legendary retired veteran and use your signature prosthetic arm to jump over cliffs and skyscrapers, zip through bullets and traps and defeat powerful enemies.