Single-player games like Explodemon
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Explodemon, 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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Gravity Circuit
Single-player alternative to Explodemon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Explodemon.
Gravity Circuit is a flashy action packed 2D platformer in the spirit of console classics. Follow Kai, a lone operative war hero who harnesses the mysterious powers of the Gravity Circuit, on an adventure in a futuristic world inhabited by sentient robots.
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ANTONBLAST
Single-player alternative to Explodemon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Explodemon.
ANTONBLAST is a fast-paced explosive action platformer that's all about destruction. Play as the enraged Dynamite Anton (or his cranked-out coworker Annie) and use your Mighty F’n Hammer to demolish bizarre worlds, tussle with screen-filling bosses, and steal your Spirits back from Satan!
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Stealth Bastard Deluxe
Single-player alternative to Explodemon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Explodemon.
Armed with only your wits and a pair of Stealthing Goggles, it’s your job to sneak your way through a deadly facility that’s determined to extinguish your fragile little life.
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1001 Spikes
Single-player alternative to Explodemon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Explodemon.
Discover the lost treasures of Ukampa in South America as Aban Hawkins searches for his estranged father, world-famous archeaologist, Jim Hawkins. Aban Hawkins races into the frozen tundra of the antarctic, undiscovered temple ruins and the vast caverns of South America in search of his father and the legendary treasure rumored to lie...
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Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack
Single-player alternative to Explodemon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Explodemon.
A sci-fi puzzle-platformer of cataclysmic proportions! Evolve from a tiny captive into a world-eating giant. Use your mutant blob powers to devour the pathetic humans and all of civilization!
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Mighty No. 9
Single-player alternative to Explodemon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Explodemon.
Mighty No. 9 is a 2D Side-scrolling Action game that takes the best elements from 8 and 16-bit classics that you know and love and transforms them with modern tech, fresh mechanics, and fan input into something fresh and amazing!
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Broforce
Single-player alternative to Explodemon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Explodemon.
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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The Mummy Demastered
Single-player alternative to Explodemon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Explodemon.
A powerful ancient evil has arisen, and the war to save humanity has begun! As an elite agent in the monster-hunting Prodigium organization, you must use a variety of weapons, upgrades, and mysterious artifacts to defend mankind against the supernatural hordes of Princess Ahmanet.
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Mega Man X Legacy Collection
Single-player alternative to Explodemon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Explodemon.
Mega Man X Legacy Collection includes the legendary 16-bit titles and the series’ exciting foray into the 32-bit era: Mega Man X, Mega Man X2, Mega Man X3, and Mega Man X4. Test your skills in the new X Challenge mode, which pits players against two deadly bosses at once.
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Mega Man Legacy Collection
Single-player alternative to Explodemon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Explodemon.
Mega Man Legacy Collection is a celebration of the 8-bit history of Capcom’s iconic Blue Bomber featuring faithful reproductions of the series’ origins with the original six Mega Man games.
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Nuke Bomberman
Single-player alternative to Explodemon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Explodemon.
In this exciting game, you will find yourself in a maze where every step could be your last. Your task is to navigate through the twisty corridors, using bombs to blast through walls and monsters.
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Velocity®Ultra
Single-player alternative to Explodemon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Explodemon.
Velocity®Ultra is an award-winning top down shooter that puts you in control of the galaxy’s only Quarp Jet, an advanced spacecraft with the ability to teleport at will. Tasked with rescuing survivors from a collapsed black hole, you’ll need to use both firepower and quick-wits to catapult the Quarp Jet through 50 levels of sci-fi action.