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Single-player games like Shadow Blade: Reload

Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Shadow Blade: Reload, 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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    STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜® — Steam game cover

    STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®

    Single-player alternative to Shadow Blade: Reload — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Shadow Blade: Reload.

    Strider returns in a brand new adventure, complete with incredible side-scrolling action, and lightning fast combat all in a massive interconnected world! Download the full game February 19th and become the original assassin!

    2014ActionAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Ninja Pizza Girl — Steam game cover

    Ninja Pizza Girl

    Single-player alternative to Shadow Blade: Reload — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shadow Blade: Reload.

    Ninja Pizza Girl is a serious game about bullying, emotional resilience – and pizza delivering ninjas! It’s a fast, flow-based game about Gemma, a sixteen-year-old girl trying to keep her dreams alive in face of the most merciless enemies known to any teenage girl – other teenagers.

    2015ActionIndie6.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    10 Second Ninja X — Steam game cover

    10 Second Ninja X

    Single-player alternative to Shadow Blade: Reload — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shadow Blade: Reload.

    10 SECOND NINJA X is a hardcore sidescroller. You're a ninja, there are robots, you've got ten seconds to destroy them all. Get three star ratings, climb leaderboards, discover secrets and stop Captain Greatbeard.

    2016ActionIndie0.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Mark of the Ninja — Steam game cover

    Mark of the Ninja

    Single-player alternative to Shadow Blade: Reload — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shadow Blade: Reload.

    In Mark of the Ninja, you'll know what it is to truly be a ninja. You must be silent, agile and clever to outwit your opponents in a world of gorgeous scenery and flowing animation. Marked with cursed tattoos giving you heightened senses, every situation presents you with options.

    2012ActionIndieAdventureDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Super House of Dead Ninjas — Steam game cover

    Super House of Dead Ninjas

    Single-player alternative to Shadow Blade: Reload — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shadow Blade: Reload.

    Super House of Dead Ninjas is an action arcade game with roguelite elements. Race against a 30 second timer as you descend floor after foe-filled floor and attempt to unlock the secrets of this deadly tower!Play as the fearsome Crimson Ninja, wielding an arsenal of deadly ninja weapons and attacks.

    2013ActionIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    10 Second Ninja — Steam game cover

    10 Second Ninja

    Single-player alternative to Shadow Blade: Reload — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shadow Blade: Reload.

    Ninjas are cool, this is an established fact of the universe. Nazi Robots from space are not cool, they are the complete opposite of cool, and Robot Hitler is out to get you, the world's first ninja. You have 10 seconds to destroy all Nazi Robots in your vicinity. IT. IS. ON.

    2014ActionIndie1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    My Friend Pedro — Steam game cover

    My Friend Pedro

    Single-player alternative to Shadow Blade: Reload — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shadow Blade: Reload.

    My Friend Pedro is a violent ballet about friendship, imagination, and one man’s struggle to obliterate anyone in his path at the behest of a sentient banana.

    2019ActionIndie19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Hell is Other Demons — Steam game cover

    Hell is Other Demons

    Single-player alternative to Shadow Blade: Reload — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shadow Blade: Reload.

    Hell is Other Demons is an action-platform shooter, with Roguelite elements. Explore a sprawling, hand-crafted world full of demons, insanely over-the-top boss fights, and a heavy synthwave soundtrack.

    2019ActionIndie9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Super Meat Boy — Steam game cover

    Super Meat Boy

    Single-player alternative to Shadow Blade: Reload — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Shadow Blade: Reload.

    The infamous, tough-as-nails platformer comes to Steam with a playable Head Crab character (Steam-exclusive)!

    2010Indie14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    STEEL STRIDER — Steam game cover

    STEEL STRIDER

    Single-player alternative to Shadow Blade: Reload — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shadow Blade: Reload.

    STEEL STRIDER is the follow up to the acclaimed GIGANTIC ARMY and pays homage to the great run and gun games such as Turrican and Super Contra, but adds mouse / dual analogue stick-operated weapons!

    2015ActionIndie2.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Shinobi Shift — Steam game cover

    Shinobi Shift

    Single-player alternative to Shadow Blade: Reload — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Shadow Blade: Reload.

    Shinobi Shift is a first-person platformer with shooter elements where you can control the time!

    2021IndieAdventure9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants Unleashed — Steam game cover

    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants Unleashed

    Single-player alternative to Shadow Blade: Reload — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Shadow Blade: Reload.

    Join the Turtle brothers straight from the sewers and slide into this new adventure of shell-shocking proportions!

    2024ActionAdventure39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Children of Morta — Steam game cover

    Children of Morta

    Single-player alternative to Shadow Blade: Reload — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shadow Blade: Reload.

    Children of Morta is a story-driven action RPG game about an extraordinary family of heroes. Lead the Bergsons, with all their flaws and virtues, against the forthcoming Corruption. Will you be able to sacrifice everything to save the ones you care for?

    2019ActionIndieAdventure21.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Wizard of Legend 2 — Steam game cover

    Wizard of Legend 2

    Single-player alternative to Shadow Blade: Reload — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shadow Blade: Reload.

    Face perilous magical trials in the fast-paced rogue-lite follow-up to the acclaimed original, featuring co-op and vibrant new 3D visuals. Master new Arcana and elements, experiment with spell combinations, and become the next Wizard of Legend!

    2025ActionIndieRPG24.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Garshasp: The Monster Slayer — Steam game cover

    Garshasp: The Monster Slayer

    Single-player alternative to Shadow Blade: Reload — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shadow Blade: Reload.

    As the legendary Persian hero, fight your way in a journey to revenge and reclaim the legendary mace of his ancestors stolen by the Deevs. Purchase before 5/16 and save!

    2011ActionIndie4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Garshasp: Temple of the Dragon — Steam game cover

    Garshasp: Temple of the Dragon

    Single-player alternative to Shadow Blade: Reload — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shadow Blade: Reload.

    The mighty mythological hero, Garshasp, travels into distant lands in search for the secrets hidden in the temple of the dragon, unaware of the hidden dangers and creatures awaiting him in the cursed lands.

    2012ActionIndie4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →