Single-player games like Not The Robots
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Not The Robots, 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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Heat Signature
Single-player alternative to Not The Robots — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Not The Robots.
Heat Signature is a game from the developers of Gunpoint where you break into spaceships, make terrible mistakes, and think of clever ways out of them. You take a mission, fly to the target ship, sneak inside, and make clever use of your gadgets to distract, ambush and take out the crew.
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Contract Work
Single-player alternative to Not The Robots — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Not The Robots.
Contract Work is a cyberpunk action rogue-like where you infiltrate high-rises to steal corporate secrets. Do you go in guns blazing or take a more stealthy approach? Every contract earns you credits which you use to buy new cybernetic enhancements and modifications for your next mission.
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Invisible, Inc.
Single-player alternative to Not The Robots — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Not The Robots.
Take control of Invisible's agents in the field and infiltrate the world's most dangerous corporations. Stealth, precision, and teamwork are essential in high-stakes, high-profit missions, where every move may cost an agent their life.
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Space Gladiators: The Hole
Single-player alternative to Not The Robots — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Not The Robots.
Ever dreamt of being a space potato? Now’s your chance! This is the prelude for Space Gladiators, a 2D hand-drawn roguelite platformer following a bunch of captives fighting their way out of a planet prison. Defeat hordes of aliens in the gladiatorial arenas and earn your freedom!
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Red Dust
Single-player alternative to Not The Robots — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Not The Robots.
Red Dust is a fast-paced top-down shooter set in a gritty sci-fi western world, featuring intense gunfights, exploration, and skill-driven combat.
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Teleglitch: Die More Edition
Single-player alternative to Not The Robots — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Not The Robots.
In a cold, dark future dominated by mega-corporations, a small lonely planet on the edge of habitable space is the site of a shadowy research facility specializing in necrotic tissue reactivation. You are a scientist who has suddenly awoken to the realization that you are the lone survivor.
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30XX
Single-player alternative to Not The Robots — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Not The Robots.
Jump, shoot, and slash your way through 30XX, the roguelike action platformer you can play with a friend! Explore lush, ever-changing worlds that mix precise platforming with fevered combat. Destroy fearsome Guardians. Master unique Powers. Rediscover the thousand years we've lost.
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CRYPTARK
Single-player alternative to Not The Robots — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Not The Robots.
Cryptark is a 2D sci-fi shooter where you take on the role of a heavily armed privateer seeking to earn government contracts by boarding deadly alien space-hulks. It's up to you to strategize a plan of attack, pick an equipment loadout, and destroy the central core to be victorious.
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Observatory: A VR Variety Pack
Single-player alternative to Not The Robots — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Not The Robots.
Observatory is a variety pack for VR headsets. It includes three games and a music video: Procedural downhill racing, spacejet-horror with microscopic submarines, island-puzzling with physics-based creatures, and a trippy official music video for a song by Icky Blossoms.