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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Big Blind
Single-player alternative to DeadWire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with DeadWire.
Where Sound Becomes Sight, Style Meets Violence. Step into the world of darkness as a blind protagonist who sees through sound in this stylish 2D top-down shooter where every kill matters and style is everything.
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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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Core Override
Single-player alternative to DeadWire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with DeadWire.
Defeat enemies, collect Modules, and create powerful builds in this cyberpunk bullet hell shooter. Combine weapons and Modules to forge your own playstyle and push through endless waves of enemies.
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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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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 make more money, deploy pirates, and unlock [REDACTED]. Pin to your desktop and watch your empire grow while you do "more important" things.