Single-player games like Heavy Bullets
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Heavy Bullets, 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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Ziggurat
Single-player alternative to Heavy Bullets — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Heavy Bullets.
Dungeon-Crawling First Person Shooting at its finest! Fast-paced combat! Dozens of perks, spells and enemies! Level ups! Random Dungeons! Traps! Badass bosses! Carrots!
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Tower of Guns
Single-player alternative to Heavy Bullets — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Heavy Bullets.
Tower of Guns is a fast paced first-person-shooter for the twitch gamer... with a few randomized elements to keep it fresh with each playthrough. It's a short burst "Lunch Break FPS"... not unlike Binding of Isaac mixed with Doom 2. Tower of Guns was made by a guy named Joe (with his brother Mike composing the music).
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Delver
Single-player alternative to Heavy Bullets — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Heavy Bullets.
Delve into the shifting dungeons on your hunt for the Yithidian orb, but getting it might just be the easy part. Delver is a single player first-person action roguelike dungeon crawler, just like you wished they used to make.
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Diehard Dungeon
Single-player alternative to Heavy Bullets — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Heavy Bullets.
Combining its own unique take on the real-time roguelike genre, with a nostalgic 16-bit look and feel, Diehard Dungeon is a game that feels both familiar and quite different at the same time. Followed by a trusty, treasure collecting companion chest, you must make your way through the dungeons many randomly-generated rooms and levels.
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Enter the Gungeon
Single-player alternative to Heavy Bullets — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Heavy Bullets.
Enter the Gungeon is a bullet hell dungeon crawler following a band of misfits seeking to shoot, loot, dodge roll and table-flip their way to personal absolution by reaching the legendary Gungeon’s ultimate treasure: the gun that can kill the past.
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Teleglitch: Die More Edition
Single-player alternative to Heavy Bullets — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Heavy Bullets.
In a cold, dark future dominated by mega-corporations, a small lonely planet on the edge of habitable space is the site of a shadowy research facility specializing in necrotic tissue reactivation. You are a scientist who has suddenly awoken to the realization that you are the lone survivor.
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Risk of Rain (2013)
Single-player alternative to Heavy Bullets — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Heavy Bullets.
Risk of Rain is an action platformer with roguelike elements. With permanent death as a primary feature, players will have to play their best to get as far as possible. Fight on a mysterious planet with randomly spawning enemies and bosses, either alone or with 3 friends in online co-op.
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STRAFE: Gold Edition
Single-player alternative to Heavy Bullets — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Heavy Bullets.
STRAFE® is the worlds bloodiest roguelike first-person shooter! Featuring mind melting secrets and persistent gore that allows you to paint levels red with the excessive entrails of your enemies. 30+ weapons, 20+ enemies, & a red hot soundtrack.
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Void Bastards
Single-player alternative to Heavy Bullets — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Heavy Bullets.
Inspired by BioShock and System Shock 2, Void Bastards is a revolutionary new strategy-shooter that will test your wits as well as exercise your aim. Can you lead the misfit prisoners of the Void Ark through the derelict spaceships and myriad dangers of the Sargasso Nebula?
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SLUDGE LIFE
Single-player alternative to Heavy Bullets — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Heavy Bullets.
SLUDGE LIFE is a first-person / open-world / vandalism-centric stroll through a polluted island full of cranky idiots and a vibe so thick you can taste it.
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High Hell
Single-player alternative to Heavy Bullets — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Heavy Bullets.
High Hell is a neon-soaked, arcade-action first-person shooter from Terri Vellmann (Heavy Bullets) and Doseone (Enter the Gungeon, Gang Beasts).
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SLUDGE LIFE 2
Single-player alternative to Heavy Bullets — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Heavy Bullets.
SLUDGE LIFE 2 is the grimiest first-person vandalism sim since the first SLUDGE LIFE—but, like, twice as dense. Explore a huger, weirder, gnarlier open world loaded with secrets, weirdos, jokes, and, of course, plenty of spots to tag.
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SLUDGE LIFE: The BIG MUD Sessions
Single-player alternative to Heavy Bullets — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Heavy Bullets.
Munch down a bite-sized SLUDGE LIFE experience in this free self-contained interlude.
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GUNCHO
Single-player alternative to Heavy Bullets — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
In this small scale, turn based tactics game, you spin Guncho's revolver cylinder to keep his bullets aligned to enemies. Fight your way through randomly generated shootouts. Upgrade your bullets and use tactical abilities to defeat your foes. Ride your donkey and become the ultimate Pistolero.