Single-player games like DeadWire
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to DeadWire, 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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Kusan: City of Wolves
Single-player alternative to DeadWire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with DeadWire.
Kusan: City of Wolves is a high-octane hardcore top-down shooter where players fight through a brutal urban jungle ruled by gunfire and corruption to save Haru — a girl fitted with a city-grade atomic weapon.
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LUMbA: REDUX
Single-player alternative to DeadWire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with DeadWire.
LUMbA: REDUX Is a challenging, fast-paced, bullet hell shooter. Take control of LUMBA and cleanse this world of the monsters that have consumed it.
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Data Breach Inc.
Single-player alternative to DeadWire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with DeadWire.
Pilot a breach rig into hostile corporate infrastructure. Mine the firewall, crack daemon cores, extract your haul, and buy permanent upgrades between sorties.
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Glitchpunk
Single-player alternative to DeadWire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with DeadWire.
Inspired by classic top-down action games, Glitchpunk lets you brawl, shoot and drive your way through a dystopian future. As an android bounty hunter in a brutal world of gangs, cults and corporations there’s plenty of work for you. Lock and load, let her rip!
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ATOMINE
Single-player alternative to DeadWire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with DeadWire.
Atomine is a twin stick procedural shooter rogue-lite set in a virtual world with minimalist design, where the player recounts on the screen the real events of STUXNET, the first weapon ever created in the form of computer virus.
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Man of Honor
Single-player alternative to DeadWire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with DeadWire.
Man of Honor is a mafia themed top down shooter / character study where you control Emilio Gallo, an ex-mafioso, as he fights to get revenge on his former friends in the waning rust belt city of Ferrousburgh.
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RUINER
Single-player alternative to DeadWire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with DeadWire.
RUINER is a brutal action shooter set in the year 2091 in the cyber metropolis Rengkok. A wired psychopath lashes out against a corrupt system to uncover the truth and retrieve his kidnapped brother under the guidance of a secretive hacker friend.
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SYNTHETIK: Legion Rising
Single-player alternative to DeadWire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with DeadWire.
SYNTHETIK is an unforgiving tactical shooter rogue-lite where freedom and experimentation is key. Fight in a world overrun by the Machine Legion and their Gods. Experience the next level in gun-play and dive into unparalleled build options and Android upgrades. Can you defeat the Heart of Armageddon?
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Baby Redemption
Single-player alternative to DeadWire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with DeadWire.
Baby Redemption is a high paced rogue-like shooter where you have to save babies in glorious intense slow-motion action. Weapons, bullets, babies, fun and bullet-time. What more do you need?
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Velocity Noodle
Single-player alternative to DeadWire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with DeadWire.
Master the art of lightning-fast noodle delivery in this challenging 2D platformer. With deadly traps, a range of moves to master, including teleportation, and trophies to unlock, are you ready to become the ultimate noodle delivery master?
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Desk Space: Idle Spacefleet clicker
Single-player alternative to DeadWire — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Grow your fleet of spaceships in this incremental space game. Mine asteroids and trade with stations, unlock upgrades to made more money, deploy pirates, and unlock [REDACTED]. Pin to your desktop and watch your empire grow while you do "more important" things.