Single-player games like AploVVare Collection
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to AploVVare Collection, 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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Little Red Rocket Ship
Single-player alternative to AploVVare Collection — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with AploVVare Collection.
Little Red Rocket Ship is a bullet hell game with shoot-'em-up and platforming sections, featuring challenging but short levels and multiple weapon and ship options.
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Saturn Quest: Blast Effect
Single-player alternative to AploVVare Collection — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with AploVVare Collection.
Saturn Quest: Blast Effect is a story-driven action adventure game set in the human-less galaxy far far away. Fly, climb, shoot, explore the world and fight the giant bosses in this 8 Bit style Space Opera, full of drama and epic.
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One Pixel TWB
Single-player alternative to AploVVare Collection — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with AploVVare Collection.
The two primordial colors of pixels start a war after years and years of "Peace", many things have happened in this castle that is now being attacked by larger forces, will you as the King of this city let them destroy everything that is yours? WARNING: If you give up easily, don't buy this game.
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Another Space Opera - Episode 1: The Wake of The Giant
Single-player alternative to AploVVare Collection — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with AploVVare Collection.
In 2297, Earth is united under a gestalt technocratic order - reborn from the ashes of nuclear fire. Now, humanity finds itself caught in the crossfire of a bloody, supernatural conflict for the fate of the galaxy. Hack and blast your way through this explosive, cinematic action platformer.
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At The Downstairs
Single-player alternative to AploVVare Collection — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with AploVVare Collection.
What, you can easily pass all the obstacles you face? So, are you our last hope? So, do you want some absurdity? And are you doing all this to beat the ZUMBEKUKKA at downstairs? Dude, you are really brave!
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Super Time Force Ultra
Single-player alternative to AploVVare Collection — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with AploVVare Collection.
Super Time Force Ultra is an insane platformer filled with robots and dinosaurs and fun and time travel... sometimes all at the same time!
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Warhammer 40,000: Shootas, Blood & Teef
Single-player alternative to AploVVare Collection — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with AploVVare Collection.
From the developers of the Guns, Gore and Cannoli franchise comes a new 2D run & gun platformer: Warhammer 40,000: Shootas, Blood & TEEF! Spearhead an Ork invasion, destroy the hive city and kill your warboss! ‘Ere we go!
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Gunlocked
Single-player alternative to AploVVare Collection — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with AploVVare Collection.
A twin stick shooter without the twin stick, Gunlocked is a sci-fi action roguelike about careful positioning and upgrade selection. Manage unique targeting systems across multiple weapons and upgrades, as you battle legions of alien ships, and then do it all over again!
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Solace Inc.
Single-player alternative to AploVVare Collection — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with AploVVare Collection.
A survivors-like about a time-travelling company where you recruit your employees against endless hordes of enemies.
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Hellfire
Single-player alternative to AploVVare Collection — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
In this classic arcade-like game from 1984, take on the role of the mythical hero Ulysses as he performs a series of tasks, set by the gods to prove his worthiness. Test your might against the slopes of Mount Olympus, the Gorgon, Minotaurs, and other monsters.
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Aestheta
Single-player alternative to AploVVare Collection — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with AploVVare Collection.
A roguelike royalelike about warriors from across space and time, fighting to claim a wish from the Star of Aestheta. Strategize your tactics, enhance your troops, and outwit your opponents to rise to the top!
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Buckler 2
Single-player alternative to AploVVare Collection — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with AploVVare Collection.
BUCKLER 2 is a retro-styled roguelite platformer that tells a story about love, hate, and everything in between. Join Venice and his friends as they embark on an epic adventure across Sector Omega, an unfamiliar world filled with enemies, allies, hazards, and more!
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Roseblight
Single-player alternative to AploVVare Collection — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with AploVVare Collection.
Roseblight is an RPG about a gardener with a dark secret and a visitor from the cosmos. Explore the wild, challenge foes, recruit allies, and embrace your chains in an unforgiving world plagued with malice and destruction.
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Project Malice
Single-player alternative to AploVVare Collection — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with AploVVare Collection.
An isometric roguelike third-person shooter about a ruined Earth and the unending chaos engulfing it. Fight hordes of the infected, gather loot, make allies, traverse spacetime, and venture into the depths of what we could've prevented.