Single-player games like Crawling Lab
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Crawling Lab, 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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Gunbot Diplomacy
Single-player alternative to Crawling Lab — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Crawling Lab.
Splatter slimes, massacre mutants, and assemble your perfect Gunbot! Survive hordes of enemies in this top-down shooter roguelite by customizing your weapons on the unique upgrade grid, and pick from a wide variety of build-defining modules and wacky base bots for a new experience every run.
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Deadzone: Rogue
Single-player alternative to Crawling Lab — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Crawling Lab.
Deadzone: Rogue is a roguelite FPS set in space. Blast through swarms of hostile machines, combine powerful augments and elements to forge your build, and grow stronger with each run — solo or in co-op.
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Ruined Nurse
Single-player alternative to Crawling Lab — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Crawling Lab.
Explore the hospital by Thwarting the creatures that are trying to stop you and solving puzzles. Successfully install the internet and surprise customer...
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Last Saintess
Single-player alternative to Crawling Lab — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The offensive of the undead begins. Gather holy power to summon soldiers and strengthen the starlight of Hellendil to defeat the undead. If the undead destroy this place, it will be game over.
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Airships: Lost Flotilla
Single-player alternative to Crawling Lab — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Crawling Lab.
Airships: Lost Flotilla is a steampunk autoshooter where you fight your way through waves of enemies on your way to a safe harbour. Destroy your foes, harvest wreckage, and upgrade your ship.
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Wildkeepers Rising
Single-player alternative to Crawling Lab — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Crawling Lab.
Tame monsters! Slay waves of enemy hordes! Explore fantasy lands! Wildkeepers Rising is a whimsical action-RPG roguelite set in a beautiful hand-drawn world that combines the power curve of bullet heaven games with the compulsive fun of a creature collector.
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Conquest Dark
Single-player alternative to Crawling Lab — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Crawling Lab.
Experience an ARPG's rapid ascension to power in minutes, packed with savage, survivors-like action and devastating sword & sorcery combat. Perfect your builds through Dark Ritual runs that will decide humanity's future as you battle endless hordes across haunting ruins and cursed kingdoms.
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Necromantic
Single-player alternative to Crawling Lab — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Crawling Lab.
Start out as a lowly freshman at Valorborn Academy and prove yourself to the school and other students – or don’t, and repeatedly fall to the legions of horrors that await in Necromantic. Study up to survive in this dark and dangerous fantasy Bullet Heaven ... solo or by online co-op.
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Wolf Mate
Single-player alternative to Crawling Lab — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Crawling Lab.
Escape from the locked school by solving puzzles while running away from Freya.
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Vampire Mansion
Single-player alternative to Crawling Lab — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Crawling Lab.
Explore the mansion, find a way to fight the vampires, find the key, and escape the mansion.
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Dark Siren
Single-player alternative to Crawling Lab — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Crawling Lab.
Be careful not to be captured by the Dark Siren, find the note left by the sailors, uncover the truth, and escape.
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Abyss School
Single-player alternative to Crawling Lab — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Solve hidden items and puzzles while avoiding abyssal zombies and traps at school.
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Queen's Loyalty
Single-player alternative to Crawling Lab — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Crawling Lab.
Unite the scattered Monster Queens and reclaim your power. Level up to enhance each Queen’s stats and skills, and hold your enemies accountable for breaking the peace accord.
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Forest Of Relics
Single-player alternative to Crawling Lab — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Use the Run / Jump / Hanging / Paragliding to pass through various obstacles and obtain treasures. Spinel, the guardian of the ruins, is testing you.