Single-player games like Death Road to Canada
Below are 18 single-player Steam games similar to Death Road to Canada, 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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Streets of Rogue
Single-player alternative to Death Road to Canada — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Death Road to Canada.
Fight, sneak, and hack your way through randomly generated cities. It's like Nuclear Throne meets Deus Ex, mixed with the anarchy of GTA. Rogue-lite meets immersive sim, and goes completely insane.
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Enter the Gungeon
Single-player alternative to Death Road to Canada — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Death Road to Canada.
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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Over 9000 Zombies!
Single-player alternative to Death Road to Canada — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Death Road to Canada.
Over 9000 Zombies! is top-down arcade action blown out of all reasonable proportions. An endless horde of zombies is coming your way, how long can you survive?
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Nuclear Throne
Single-player alternative to Death Road to Canada — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Death Road to Canada.
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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Guns, Gore & Cannoli
Single-player alternative to Death Road to Canada — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Death Road to Canada.
Guns, Gore & Cannoli - An over-the-top, comical and fast-paced action game with hand-drawn graphics set in the Roaring Twenties. An all-you-can-shoot fest where you embody Vinnie, a mobster with a mission in a city controlled by gangsters and plagued by zombies. Featuring up to 4-man local co-op.
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Atomicrops
Single-player alternative to Death Road to Canada — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Death Road to Canada.
A twin-stick, bullet-hell, roguelite where you must cultivate and defend the last farm in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Farm mutated crops, upgrade your weapons, marry townsfolk, and kill every mutant creature that tries to invade your homestead! Yee-haw!
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Spelunky
Single-player alternative to Death Road to Canada — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Death Road to Canada.
Spelunky is a unique platformer with randomized levels that offer a challenging new experience each time you play. Journey deep underground and explore fantastic places filled with all manner of monsters, traps, and treasure.
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Vampire Survivors
Single-player alternative to Death Road to Canada — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Death Road to Canada.
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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Slay the Spire
Single-player alternative to Death Road to Canada — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Death Road to Canada.
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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Hades
Single-player alternative to Death Road to Canada — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Death Road to Canada.
Defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash out of the Underworld in this rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre.
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The Binding of Isaac
Single-player alternative to Death Road to Canada — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Death Road to Canada.
Now 20% More Evil with the Free Halloween update!
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Zombies Ate My Neighbors and Ghoul Patrol
Single-player alternative to Death Road to Canada — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Death Road to Canada.
Enjoy 16-bit console gaming with the cult classic Zombies Ate My Neighbors and its sequel, Ghoul Patrol!
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Risk of Rain 2
Single-player alternative to Death Road to Canada — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Death Road to Canada.
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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They Do Not Die: Call of Crimson Tgirl Apex Land Zombie Shooter Duty 2D Keywords
Single-player alternative to Death Road to Canada — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Death Road to Canada.
I just think that top down shooters are neat. It's a pretty zen time. A podcast game.
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GoNNER
Single-player alternative to Death Road to Canada — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Death Road to Canada.
GoNNER is a tough as hell procedurally-generated 2D platformer with roguelike elements, following the largely misunderstood and altruistic Ikk on a journey to cheer up his only friend in this world - a giant landbound whale named Sally - by searching for just the right trinket in the deep and dark places nearby.
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Organ Trail: Director's Cut
Single-player alternative to Death Road to Canada — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Death Road to Canada.
Organ Trail is a retro zombie survival game. Travel westward in a station wagon with 4 of your friends, scavenging for supplies and fending off the undead. Members of your party might die of dysentery or you might have to put them down yourself when they get bit.
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Cannibal Crossing
Single-player alternative to Death Road to Canada — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Death Road to Canada.
Cannibal Crossing is an action-survival game where you explore the randomly generated town of Earlsboro while scavenging, fighting hordes of enemies, building a base, and searching for a way to escape! Meet survivors with new abilities and lots of cannibals. Includes a co-op mode for 1-4 players!
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Wayward Souls
Single-player alternative to Death Road to Canada — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Death Road to Canada.
Wayward Souls is a randomly generated action-RPG with a heavy focus on story. Play as seven different heroes, all with their own sets of abilities. Fight through steadily greater hordes of enemies.