Single-player games like The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile, 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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Charlie Murder
Single-player alternative to The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile.
It’s a punk rock apocalypse! Team up with your friends to lead embattled punk rock band Charlie Murder in their epic quest to save the world from rival death metalers Gore Quaffer and their legions of evil.
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Salt and Sanctuary
Single-player alternative to The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile.
Explore a haunting, punishing island in this stylized 2D action RPG. Salt and Sanctuary combines fast and brutal 2D combat with richly developed RPG mechanics in a cursed realm of forgotten cities, blood-soaked dungeons, and desecrated monuments.
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Abyss Odyssey
Single-player alternative to The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile.
From indie Chilean developer ACE Team comes a new side-scrolling action adventure game featuring a complex fighting engine in procedurally generated levels that destines its three warriors to battle a different abyss each time! Choose your hero and also learn to possess your enemies in the abyss…
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Shank
Single-player alternative to The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile.
Shank is the cult-classic revival of the sidescrolling beat-em-up. Play as Shank in an over-the-top grindhouse game, packed to the rim with enemies, bosses, combos, and more by the award-winning team at Klei Entertainment.
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Devil May Cry 5
Single-player alternative to The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile.
The ultimate Devil Hunter is back in style, in the game action fans have been waiting for.
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Shing!
Single-player alternative to The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile.
Experience the most exciting and immersive beat-em-up combat system ever – become a kickass ninja and slice some demons in style!
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Wulverblade
Single-player alternative to The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile.
Defeat the Ninth Legion of the Roman army in this side-scrolling, arcade-inspired beat 'em up set in Roman-era Britain.
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DmC: Devil May Cry
Single-player alternative to The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile.
In this retelling of Dante's origin story which is set against a contemporary backdrop, DmC Devil May Cry™ retains the stylish action.
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Salt and Sacrifice
Single-player alternative to The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile.
Join your fellow Marked Inquisitors in this online coop successor to award-winning 2016 Soulslike Salt and Sanctuary.
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NINJA GAIDEN: Ragebound
Single-player alternative to The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile.
A brand-new side-scrolling entry to the NINJA GAIDEN series from the team behind Blasphemous, NINJA GAIDEN: Ragebound redefines the classic platformer saga in a spectacular, thrilling and challenging ninja adventure.
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Single-player alternative to The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile.
A top down twin stick zombie slaying shooter that you are sure to play again and again!