Single-player games like Crimsonland
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Crimsonland, 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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Tesla vs Lovecraft
Single-player alternative to Crimsonland — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Crimsonland.
Tesla vs Lovecraft is an intense top-down twin stick arena shooter from the creators of Crimsonland and Neon Chrome. Play as the enigmatic inventor Nikola Tesla harnessing the static energy to power up Tesla-Mech and give the lovecraftian nightmares a lesson in horror!
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Neon Chrome
Single-player alternative to Crimsonland — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Crimsonland.
A masterful combination of top-down shooter and endless replayability with procedural levels. Blast your way through walls & enemies with guns and cybernetic abilities. Install perks from cyber chambers and upgrade your character stats after each death. Can you stop the Overseer?
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Nation Red
Single-player alternative to Crimsonland — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Crimsonland.
Nation Red is an ultra fast infinite play arena-based shooter providing an exceptional close-quarter battlefield experience. Fight thousands of zombie mutants and their bosses in frantic bloody gameplay while earning close to 100 perks. Fight in Barricade, Survival or Free Play mode.
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Shadowgrounds
Single-player alternative to Crimsonland — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Crimsonland.
Shadowgrounds breathes fresh air into the action genre with explosive combat sequences, an innovative weapon upgrade system, and an intriguing storyline. The adrenaline-pumping, top-down gameplay and audiovisual fireworks set the scene for this new action experience which also includes single computer (split keyboard or joystick) co-op...
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Destropolis
Single-player alternative to Crimsonland — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Crimsonland.
Destropolis is a top-down shooter game with a fully destructible environment, hundreds of enemies and nuclear explosions. Fight a countless swarm of enemies. Tear them to pieces with bullets, lasers and explosions. Destroy as many of them as you can before they overwhelm you...
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HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition
Single-player alternative to Crimsonland — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Crimsonland.
HELLDIVERS™ is a hardcore, cooperative, twin stick shooter. As part of the elite unit called the HELLDIVERS, players must work together to protect SUPER EARTH and defeat the enemies of mankind in an intense intergalactic war.
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KILL KNIGHT
Single-player alternative to Crimsonland — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Crimsonland.
KILL KNIGHT is an ultra-responsive arcade-inspired isometric action shooter. Condemned to eternal sufferance, deep within the voids of an eldritch arena, you must wield an arsenal of devastating weaponry to obliterate swarms of otherworldly horrors - and MASTER THE DEMON WITHIN.
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Renegade Ops
Single-player alternative to Crimsonland — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Crimsonland.
Blast your way through enemy lines to defeat Inferno, a madman intent on global domination. Destruction just got awesome.
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Vampire Survivors
Single-player alternative to Crimsonland — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Crimsonland.
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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Brotato
Single-player alternative to Crimsonland — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Crimsonland.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
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DYSMANTLE
Single-player alternative to Crimsonland — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Crimsonland.
Ascend from your shelter. Ruin everything. Escape the wretched island. ⚔️🔨🎣🌱🌵🍰 Explore. Fight. Level up. Survive. Gather. Craft. Harvest. Hunt. Build. Farm. Solve puzzles. Fish. Cook. Live. Enjoy the bittersweet post-apocalypse.
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Undead Horde
Single-player alternative to Crimsonland — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Crimsonland.
Become a necromancer and raise the dead - Undead Horde is a necromantic action game with elements from RPG, strategy and hack'n'slash. Maraud through the lands of the living, raze their villages and steal their treasures. Ultimately you'll take over the whole kingdom of the living!
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Undead Horde 2: Necropolis
Single-player alternative to Crimsonland — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Crimsonland.
As a powerful necromancer you have the ability to raise the dead and command them in battle. With each victory, your army will grow stronger and your city will become more powerful. Undead Horde 2 is an action game with elements from RPG, strategy and hack'n'slash. Rise from the crypt and rebuild!
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DYSPLACED
Single-player alternative to Crimsonland — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Crimsonland.
Grenads are holy relics. Shotguns are spellcraft. In this top-down survival action-RPG, you've been summoned as the Guardian of a fantasy realm leaking modern objects. Scavenge artifacts, forge weapons, build outposts, brew potions, and hunt the corruption devouring the land. Play solo or co-op.
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Skeletal Avenger
Single-player alternative to Crimsonland — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Crimsonland.
Embark on a bone-chilling quest for vengeance as a skull-hurling skeletal warrior in Skeletal Avenger! This captivating roguelite dungeon crawler melds hack'n'slash mayhem with endlessly replayable gameplay, offering a thrilling, ever-evolving experience that keeps you coming back for more.
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Tesla Force
Single-player alternative to Crimsonland — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Crimsonland.
With science as your super power, charge up your coils and zap into action! Tesla Force is a rogue-lite top-down shooter featuring endless procedural gameplay with tentacle splitting action. Play as Tesla, Curie, Lovecraft and Shelley and blast the cosmic horror back into the galactic abyss!