Single-player games like Starving Cat
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Starving Cat, 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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The Fibrous - Operation Reclaim
Single-player alternative to Starving Cat — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Starving Cat.
The Fibrous - Sci-Fi Online or Single-Player TPS (Over-The-Shoulder) covering the story of an ex-marine recruited by what's left of the military to help take back Earth after a meteor crash-lands into Earth and aliens with fiber-like skin emerge, thinking they can take this planet for their own.
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Hope is Fading
Single-player alternative to Starving Cat — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Starving Cat.
In a war torn future, play as a robot piecing together your damaged frame, scavenge for parts and engage in fast paced combat.
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THE DARK SIDE OF CECLON
Single-player alternative to Starving Cat — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starving Cat.
Jensen, the sole survivor of the Nexentia shuttle crash on the planet CECLON. Alone, light years away from all human life! You will have to face the Nocturnes, primitive creatures in order to bring back the Veka energy, humanity's only hope.
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Wormhole: Battle for Planet Earth
Single-player alternative to Starving Cat — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starving Cat.
Wormhole: Battle for Planet Earth - This is a fantastic third-person action game. In the game you are waiting for aliens, teleporters, dark matter and hurricane action.
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The Fixers
Single-player alternative to Starving Cat — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starving Cat.
The Fixers is a third-person cyberpunk extraction shooter. Raid deadly city zones, loot rare tech, fight AI and rival mercs, and extract or lose it all. Upgrade your Hideout, take contracts from Fixers, and survive PvE or PvPvE runs to build your legacy.
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Kill the Pineapple
Single-player alternative to Starving Cat — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starving Cat.
Kill the Pineapple is a trippy Third Person Shooter in a psychedelic dream-world.
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Future Tanks Area
Single-player alternative to Starving Cat — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starving Cat.
3D third-person shooter game. Control a tank using a keyboard and mouse. Go through various maps and destroy bots on your way. Fight with two main bosses on your path to complete the game.
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Dead Space™ 2
Single-player alternative to Starving Cat — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Starving Cat.
Three years after the Necromorph infestation aboard the USS Ishimura, Isaac Clarke awakens from a coma, confused, disoriented, and on a space station called The Sprawl. Explore this world and its zero-g environments to discover the truth about the Unitology and its role in the Necromorph epidemic.
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Ceaseless
Single-player alternative to Starving Cat — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starving Cat.
Create, Customize, and Command each module on your starship, explore ceaseless space filled with unique environments, and battle endless combinations of enemies in timed, turn-based combat.
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Directive: Intercept
Single-player alternative to Starving Cat — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starving Cat.
Protect Earth's last cities from an alien fleet in fast-paced aerial combat. Upgrade and customize your aircraft to dominate the skies.