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Single-player games like Malignant Survivors

Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Malignant Survivors, 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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    Nevermore: The Chamber Door — Steam game cover

    Nevermore: The Chamber Door

    Single-player alternative to Malignant Survivors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Malignant Survivors.

    NEVERMORE: The Chamber Door is an indie game developed by just one person, with fluid combat in the style of hack n 'slash and lore inspired by the work of Edgar Allan Poe.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Shadow Dungeon — Steam game cover

    Shadow Dungeon

    Single-player alternative to Malignant Survivors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Malignant Survivors.

    Nightmarish monsters crawl forth from the darkness, while the Demon Lord lurks beneath the abyss. Venture into the Shadow Dungeon, carve your way through blood and chaos, and forge your own legendary epic.

    2026ActionAdventureRPGSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Castle Dark — Steam game cover

    Castle Dark

    Single-player alternative to Malignant Survivors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Malignant Survivors.

    Brand Warcford must track down the evil force plaguing the land in this single player ACTION RPG.

    2024ActionIndieRPG19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Wardens of Avalon — Steam game cover

    Wardens of Avalon

    Single-player alternative to Malignant Survivors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Malignant Survivors.

    Restore the former glory of a corrupt Camelot in Wardens of Avalon, an Action RPG set in a Dark Arthurian world. As a new member of the Twilight Knights, establish your fiefdom, explore, craft and gear up for thrilling adventures against the fallen Knights of the Round Table, alone or with friends.

    2027ActionIndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Legacy Of The Pact — Steam game cover

    Legacy Of The Pact

    Single-player alternative to Malignant Survivors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Malignant Survivors.

    Journey through the fantastical world destroying hordes of evil creatures and survive! Legacy Of The Pact is and action packed action survival game with some RPG and Rogue Like elements

    2023ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    TotAL RPG — Steam game cover

    TotAL RPG

    Single-player alternative to Malignant Survivors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Malignant Survivors.

    Level up your hero! Save the towers from the invasion in this classic-style RPG!

    2024ActionIndieRPG8.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem — Steam game cover

    Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem

    Single-player alternative to Malignant Survivors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Malignant Survivors.

    Carve your path in this Hack’n’Slash free from class boundaries. Purify a world shattered by corruption, and uncover the grim secrets and forgotten horrors lurking in the shadows of this forsaken land as you rise in Power. Your Inner aspect beckons—will you answer?

    2020ActionIndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Halls of Torment — Steam game cover

    Halls of Torment

    Single-player alternative to Malignant Survivors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Malignant Survivors.

    Slay hordes of terrifying monsters in this horde survival roguelite. Descend into the Halls of Torment where the Lords of the underworld await you. Treasures, magical trinkets, and a growing cast of heroes will grant you the power to vanquish these horrors from beyond. How long can you survive?

    2024ActionIndieRPG6.66 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Vampire Survivors — Steam game cover

    Vampire Survivors

    Single-player alternative to Malignant Survivors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Malignant Survivors.

    Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Welcome to Princeland — Steam game cover

    Welcome to Princeland

    Single-player alternative to Malignant Survivors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Malignant Survivors.

    You are a part of the rebellion against the prince who exploit his people with taxes. Gather the best weapons, vehicles and followers to crush his army. By upgrading your skills, challenge him at different difficulty mods.

    2018ActionAdventureCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Boundel: The Second Era — Steam game cover

    Boundel: The Second Era

    Single-player alternative to Malignant Survivors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Malignant Survivors.

    This is the time of guilds, wizards, warriors, blacksmiths, tailors, scribes, alchemists, woodworkers, animal tamers, brewers, traders, traitors and murderers. The Second Era begins!

    2016IndieMassively MultiplayerRPGFreeSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Malignant Survivors 2 — Steam game cover

    Malignant Survivors 2

    Single-player alternative to Malignant Survivors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Malignant Survivors.

    Experience the most intense 3D crowd combat ever. Pick your hero. Gear up. Then face the horde. Grab loot, get stronger, stay alive. Maybe. Didn't work? Try another hero, another build. Find your own path to the Abyss.

    ActionAdventureRPGSingle-playerSimilar games →