Single-player games like Tower of Guns
Below are 19 single-player Steam games similar to Tower of Guns, 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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Immortal Redneck
Single-player alternative to Tower of Guns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tower of Guns.
Immortal Redneck is a FPS set in Egypt with rogue-lite elements. Frantic gameplay, twitch controls and an arcade-style feel meet randomly generated dungeons, a complete skill tree, permanent death and 9 classes with different traits.
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MOTHERGUNSHIP
Single-player alternative to Tower of Guns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tower of Guns.
MOTHERGUNSHIP is a bullet-hell FPS where you craft your own guns, fight gigantic bosses, and defeat a robotic alien armada that conquered Earth. Face off against overwhelming odds in brutal, non-stop combats where thinking on your feet is the only way to survive.
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Ziggurat
Single-player alternative to Tower of Guns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tower of Guns.
Dungeon-Crawling First Person Shooting at its finest! Fast-paced combat! Dozens of perks, spells and enemies! Level ups! Random Dungeons! Traps! Badass bosses! Carrots!
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STRAFE: Gold Edition
Single-player alternative to Tower of Guns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tower of Guns.
STRAFE® is the worlds bloodiest roguelike first-person shooter! Featuring mind melting secrets and persistent gore that allows you to paint levels red with the excessive entrails of your enemies. 30+ weapons, 20+ enemies, & a red hot soundtrack.
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Paranautical Activity: Deluxe Atonement Edition
Single-player alternative to Tower of Guns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tower of Guns.
Paranautical Activity combines the classic FPS action of games like Doom and Quake, with the randomness and difficulty of modern roguelikes like Binding of Isaac and Spelunky.
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Heavy Bullets
Single-player alternative to Tower of Guns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tower of Guns.
Heavy Bullets is a randomized FPS dungeon crawler where players make their way through a colorful maze, while protecting themselves from aggressive creatures and malfunctioning security devices. The goal lies at the end of the 8th level, where they must reset the security mainframe to restore order and reap the rewards.
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Soulslinger: Envoy of Death
Single-player alternative to Tower of Guns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tower of Guns.
You are a gunslinger in limbo, involved in a gritty war against "The Cartel", a ruthless organization harvesting souls to break free of the shackles of the afterlife. Grow stronger with each new run, gather the essence of lost souls to take on the biggest threats in this rogue-lite FPS!
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Eldritch
Single-player alternative to Tower of Guns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tower of Guns.
Eldritch is the original imsim roguelike: a first-person action game inspired by roguelikes, immersive sims, and H. P. Lovecraft.
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Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition
Single-player alternative to Tower of Guns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Tower of Guns.
Unreal Tournament is the original King of the Hill in the frag-or-be-fragged multiplayer gaming world. As the undisputed 1999 Game of the Year, Unreal Tournament grabbed the first person shooter genre by the soiled seat of its pants and knocked it around the room with its never-before-seen graphics, brutal edge-of-your-seat gameplay and...
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Risk of Rain 2
Single-player alternative to Tower of Guns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tower of Guns.
Escape a chaotic alien planet by fighting through hordes of frenzied monsters – with your friends, or on your own. Combine loot in surprising ways and master each character until you become the havoc you feared upon your first crash landing.
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SUPERHOT
Single-player alternative to Tower of Guns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tower of Guns.
SUPERHOT is the smash-hit FPS where time moves only when you move. No regenerating health bars. No conveniently placed ammo drops. It's you, alone, outnumbered and outgunned. Snatch weapons from fallen enemies to shoot, slice and dodge through a truly cinematic hurricane of slow-motion bullets.
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Hades
Single-player alternative to Tower of Guns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tower of Guns.
Defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash out of the Underworld in this rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre.
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Dead Cells
Single-player alternative to Tower of Guns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tower of Guns.
Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.
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ULTRAKILL
Single-player alternative to Tower of Guns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tower of Guns.
ULTRAKILL is a fast-paced ultra-violent retro FPS that combines the skill-based style scoring of character action games with the unadulterated carnage inspired by the best shooters of the '90s. Rip apart your foes with varied destructive weaponry and shower in their blood to regain your health.
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Nuclear Throne
Single-player alternative to Tower of Guns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tower of Guns.
Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?
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Invincible Presents: Atom Eve
Single-player alternative to Tower of Guns — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Become Atom Eve and take control of your own path as one of the most powerful superheroes in the Invincible universe! Unravel a mystery and balance the dangers and responsibilities of being a superhero with the relatable challenges of everyday life.
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MOTHERGUNSHIP: FORGE
Single-player alternative to Tower of Guns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tower of Guns.
Craft. Shoot. Die. Repeat. Forge absurdly powerful guns and fight through the belly of a metal alien monstrosity in this VR FPS roguelite follow up to MOTHERGUNSHIP. Wanna build a rocket-firing-shotgun or a toxic spike-ball-launcher? Unleash your inner mad scientist, then take on the MOTHERGUNSHIP.
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Battle Train
Single-player alternative to Tower of Guns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Tower of Guns.
Battle Train is a run-based roguelite deck-n-track builder set in the world’s most explosive game show. Choose your cards, upgrade your train, lay down tracks, and use destructive locomotives to blast your rival Champions off the rails in a chaotic mashup of deck-building and tactical rail combat.
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Burgle Supply Company
Single-player alternative to Tower of Guns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tower of Guns.
A co-op horror comedy game for you and your friends about burglarizing a nightmarish neighborhood full of mutated pets. No one said this would be easy, but maybe you can make it out of there with a sweet wood paneled video cassette recorder.