Single-player games like AploVVare Collection
Below are 15 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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Savant - Ascent REMIX
Single-player alternative to AploVVare Collection — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with AploVVare Collection.
Savant - Ascent REMIX is an explosive shoot-em-up / scrolling shooter, starring an acrobatic wizard on an elevator-ride. Unlock destructive spells & acrobatic moves as you survive through a tower brimming with robotic fiends!
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Terry's Other Games
Single-player alternative to AploVVare Collection — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with AploVVare Collection.
Hi, I'm Terry Cavanagh! You might remember me from such videogames as Dicey Dungeons, Super Hexagon, and VVVVVV. Here are a few other things I've made over the years!
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Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo
Single-player alternative to AploVVare Collection — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with AploVVare Collection.
Are you ready for the first Yoyovania?! In this 2D top-down adventure you'll explore a sprawling urban landscape, reinterpreting your surroundings through your mastery of yoyo tricks. Navigate the city's many districts, fight rival crime bosses, and regain the influence of the Pipistrello family!
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Earthion
Single-player alternative to AploVVare Collection — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Earthion is a side-scrolling space shooter developed natively for 16-bit systems. Guide space fighter pilot Azusa Takanashi in her fight to repel the alien invaders and save planet Earth.
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UFO 50
Single-player alternative to AploVVare Collection — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with AploVVare Collection.
UFO 50 is a collection of 50 single and multiplayer games that span a variety of genres, from platformers and shoot 'em ups to puzzle games, roguelites, and RPGs. Our goal is to combine a familiar 8-bit aesthetic with new ideas and modern game design.
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Hell is Other Demons
Single-player alternative to AploVVare Collection — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with AploVVare Collection.
Hell is Other Demons is an action-platform shooter, with Roguelite elements. Explore a sprawling, hand-crafted world full of demons, insanely over-the-top boss fights, and a heavy synthwave soundtrack.
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Crimzon Clover WORLD IGNITION
Single-player alternative to AploVVare Collection — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with AploVVare Collection.
Prepare yourself for an insatiable rain of bullets, bombs, and beams in Crimzon Clover. From Japanese indie developer Yotsubane, this retro top-down shooter is a wild ride you won't want to miss out on.
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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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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.
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Wife's Bedroom
Single-player alternative to AploVVare Collection — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with AploVVare Collection.
You hear loud noises from the other side of the house. Looks like your wife has some company over again. They probably won't mind if you watch.