Single-player games like Deadly 30
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Deadly 30, 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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Doomsday Hero
Single-player alternative to Deadly 30 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly 30.
This is a zombie shooting game, shooting zombies can help you relieve pressure, bring happiness.
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Dead Effect
Single-player alternative to Deadly 30 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly 30.
Fight for your life in the INDIE SCI-FI FPS game fit for both casual and hard-core gamers with a passion for hunting down hordes of zombies. Prepare yourselves for the incoming nightmare!
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The Culling Of The Cows
Single-player alternative to Deadly 30 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly 30.
The Culling Of The Cows is a side-scrolling shooter / tower defence game. You will take the role of Sammy, a soliloquizing schizophrenic farmer with a self prophesied mission to lay waste to the disease spreading over his farm.
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Guns, Gore & Cannoli
Single-player alternative to Deadly 30 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly 30.
Guns, Gore & Cannoli - An over-the-top, comical and fast-paced action game with hand-drawn graphics set in the Roaring Twenties. An all-you-can-shoot fest where you embody Vinnie, a mobster with a mission in a city controlled by gangsters and plagued by zombies. Featuring up to 4-man local co-op.
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Deadlight
Single-player alternative to Deadly 30 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly 30.
“Probably the best downloadable title on the market right now.” 9/10 – Eurogamer.se
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Arizona Sunshine®
Single-player alternative to Deadly 30 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly 30.
Built exclusively for VR, Arizona Sunshine® puts you and up to 3 fellow survivors in the midst of a zombie apocalypse. Survive solo or in co-op, handle weapons with real-life movements, and explore a post-apocalyptic world in VR. Putting the undead back to rest is more thrilling than ever before.
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Guns, Gore and Cannoli 2
Single-player alternative to Deadly 30 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Deadly 30.
Guns, Gore & Cannoli 2 revives the good, old, action platform run & gun genre, but this time with a bunch of humor and buckets of blown off body parts. In this sequel to Guns, Gore & Cannoli, Vinnie Cannoli’s story continues and this time it’s personal.
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Broforce
Single-player alternative to Deadly 30 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly 30.
Broforce is an action-packed side-scrolling run ‘n’ gun ode to freedom, putting you in control of an under-funded, overpowered paramilitary organization dealing exclusively in excessive force.
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METAL SLUG
Single-player alternative to Deadly 30 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Deadly 30.
“METAL SLUG ”, the very first title in SNK’s legendary 2D run & gun action shooting game series where all began, returns to the missions on the Steam gaming platform!
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MADNESS
Single-player alternative to Deadly 30 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Deadly 30.
MADNESS is a wild racing game where you smash cars and perform physics defying stunts - Based on the cult classic derby racing game Need For Madness?
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Castle Crashers®
Single-player alternative to Deadly 30 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly 30.
Hack, slash, and smash your way to victory in this award winning 2D arcade adventure from The Behemoth!
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The Henry Stickmin Collection
Single-player alternative to Deadly 30 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Deadly 30.
A choose-your-own-path where failing is more fun than succeeding.