Single-player games like DeadCore
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to DeadCore, 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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SEUM: Speedrunners from Hell
Single-player alternative to DeadCore — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with DeadCore.
Like a bastard child of Quake 3 and Super Meat Boy, SEUM: Speedrunners from Hell is truly hardcore and focuses on speed and fast reaction.
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Clustertruck
Single-player alternative to DeadCore — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with DeadCore.
Clustertruck is a chaotic physics based truckformer. Jump your way through insane levels in a game of "the floor is lava" on top of speeding trucks driven by terrible drivers.
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DESCENT: A Bunnyhopping Odyssey
Single-player alternative to DeadCore — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with DeadCore.
Mythology based FPS with various movement mechanics. Use bunnyhopping, surfing, and grappling to beat each level quickly.
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Impulsion
Single-player alternative to DeadCore — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with DeadCore.
Impulsion is a fast-paced first-person platformer designed to play with your nerves and reflexes! Make your way through 25 levels of increasing difficulty by manipulating physics to your advantage, shooting force fields to slow down or speed yourself up and the environment!
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Dream Swing
Single-player alternative to DeadCore — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with DeadCore.
Grapple and air-strafe your way to the top of the Leaderboard in this fast-paced movement-based time trial. Collect as many candies as possible within 5 minutes as you dip and weave around the ruins in the sky. Can you handle the speed?
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Neon White
Single-player alternative to DeadCore — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with DeadCore.
Neon White is a single-player speedrunning FPS where you can sacrifice your guns for godlike parkour moves.
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POLY IMPULSE
Single-player alternative to DeadCore — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with DeadCore.
POLY IMPULSE is a minimalist fast-paced movement FPS where you will have to shoot colorful polyhedrons to impulse yourself through the level. Speedrunning is not an option, only the fastest with godlike aim will get the SS rank.
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Cloudbuilt
Single-player alternative to DeadCore — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with DeadCore.
Rocket parkour your way through dizzying obstacles and lethal robot hazards, in this 3rd person action platformer with over 40 levels, and even more community levels.
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Portal
Single-player alternative to DeadCore — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with DeadCore.
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
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Magrunner: Dark Pulse
Single-player alternative to DeadCore — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with DeadCore.
Magrunner: Dark Pulse is an action-puzzle game in which technology confronts the Cthulhu Mythos, penned by H.P. Lovecraft. Equipped with your Magtech glove, you must harness the ability to magnetically polarize and manipulate objects in the environment to survive and surpass challenging puzzles.
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Antichamber
Single-player alternative to DeadCore — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with DeadCore.
Antichamber is a mind-bending psychological exploration game where nothing can be taken for granted. Discover an Escher-like world where hallways wrap around upon each other, spaces reconfigure themselves, and accomplishing the impossible may just be the only way forward.
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A Story About My Uncle
Single-player alternative to DeadCore — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with DeadCore.
A Story About My Uncle is a first person platforming adventure game about a boy who searches for his lost uncle, and ends up in a world he couldn’t imagine existed. The movement is a crucial part of the games core gameplay – focusing on swinging through the world with a grappling hook that gives the player a wonderful sense of speed and...
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TRON 2.0
Single-player alternative to DeadCore — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with DeadCore.
Over 35 levels of challenging gameplay -- Race at the speed of light, fight off computer Viruses and engage in violent digital combat.
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Mirror's Edge™ Catalyst
Single-player alternative to DeadCore — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with DeadCore.
Mirror's Edge™ Catalyst raises the action-adventure bar through fluid, first person action and immerses players in Faith's story as she fights for freedom.