Single-player games like Karate Survivor
Below are 24 single-player Steam games similar to Karate Survivor, 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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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate
Single-player alternative to Karate Survivor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Karate Survivor.
TMNT Splintered Fate - Unleash the Turtles in a roguelike quest to rescue Splinter from the Foot Clan! Master ninja skills, unite in bodacious co-op gameplay, and conquer iconic NYC locales.
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Twilight Survivors
Single-player alternative to Karate Survivor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Karate Survivor.
A time-limited survival game infused with rogue-lite elements and an adorable art style! The world has plunged into darkness, and you are its sole beacon of hope. Will you endure until dawn, or succumb to repeated deaths in your quest? Fear not, for you can collect more coins to arm yourself!
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Vampire Survivors
Single-player alternative to Karate Survivor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Karate Survivor.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
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Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood
Single-player alternative to Karate Survivor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Karate Survivor.
Slash and survive a typical workday as Dracula's overworked and underappreciated servant! You'll have a bloody good time as you rampage through New Orleans to find fresh victims for your narcissistic boss.
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Achilles: Survivor
Single-player alternative to Karate Survivor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Karate Survivor.
Thousands of enemies. One survivor. Fight like a demigod, build deadly defenses, and grow stronger after every run in this fast-paced bullet heaven set in mythic Greece.
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Jotunnslayer: Hordes of Hel
Single-player alternative to Karate Survivor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Karate Survivor.
Hordes of Hel is a gripping roguelike horde-survivor game set in the dark realms of Norse Mythology. Fight waves of enemies to earn divine blessings of ancient Viking Deities, explore hostile worlds and face powerful bosses. Become a god-like warrior in this ultimate showdown.
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Wildkeepers Rising
Single-player alternative to Karate Survivor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Karate Survivor.
Tame monsters! Slay waves of enemy hordes! Explore fantasy lands! Wildkeepers Rising is a whimsical action-RPG roguelite set in a beautiful hand-drawn world that combines the power curve of bullet heaven games with the compulsive fun of a creature collector.
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Sifu
Single-player alternative to Karate Survivor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Karate Survivor.
Sifu is a realistic third-person brawler with tight Kung Fu combat mechanics and cinematic martial arts action embarking you on a path for revenge.
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Streets of Rage 4
Single-player alternative to Karate Survivor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Karate Survivor.
Amongst the best beat’em up series ever created, jammin’ ‘90s beats and over the top street fighting, the iconic series Streets of Rage comes back with a masterful tribute to and revitalization of the classic action fans adore.
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Midnight Fury
Single-player alternative to Karate Survivor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Karate Survivor.
Experience a TV show featuring Max Cobra and his teammates as they clean up zombies in quarantine zones. Impress sponsors and boost your fame.
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Punch Club
Single-player alternative to Karate Survivor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Karate Survivor.
Train hard, fight crocodiles and find love. Earn your place in the Punch Club ranks, and discover who brutally murdered your father, in this choose your own adventure boxing management tycoon.
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Mortal Kombat 1
Single-player alternative to Karate Survivor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Karate Survivor.
Discover a reborn Mortal Kombat™ Universe created by the Fire God Liu Kang. Mortal Kombat™ 1 ushers in a new era of the iconic franchise with a new fighting system, game modes, and fatalities!
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants Unleashed
Single-player alternative to Karate Survivor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Karate Survivor.
Join the Turtle brothers straight from the sewers and slide into this new adventure of shell-shocking proportions!
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Street Fighter V
Single-player alternative to Karate Survivor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Karate Survivor.
Experience the intensity of head-to-head battles with Street Fighter® V! Choose from 16 iconic characters, then battle against friends online or offline with a robust variety of match options.
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Bloodshed
Single-player alternative to Karate Survivor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Karate Survivor.
Bloodshed is a Roguelite Survivors FPS; an exhilarating fusion of Roguelite elements merged with retro-styled visuals and first-person “Survivors-like” frenetic combat action!
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Double Dragon Trilogy
Single-player alternative to Karate Survivor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Karate Survivor.
A groundbreaking, uber-popular game upon its arcade debut in 1987. Double Dragon is the undisputed godfather of co-op beat ‘em up.
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Wall World
Single-player alternative to Karate Survivor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Karate Survivor.
Explore the mysterious Wall World on your giant robospider: mine for valuable resources, upgrade your equipment to fight off hordes of monsters, and discover exotic biomes in-between attacks. Will you be able to survive and learn the secrets of the Wall World?
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Necrosmith
Single-player alternative to Karate Survivor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Karate Survivor.
A necromancer simulator. Assemble the dead using different body parts while upgrading your tower, combine the abilities of the different fantastic races to fight your way through the hordes of enemies and overrun the ’chosen ones’. To tell the truth, the dead are pretty, uhm, dumb.
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Beholder: Conductor
Single-player alternative to Karate Survivor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Karate Survivor.
A Beholder series spin-off. Become a conductor of the Determination Bringer train: monitor passengers, report incidents, and carry out important Ministry assignments — whose level of secrecy depends only on your loyalty. And remember: mission success is very important to you!
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Wall World 2
Single-player alternative to Karate Survivor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Karate Survivor.
The adventure in the mysterious world of the Wall continues! Pilot your robospider into its depths, uncover lost artifacts and technologies, upgrade your exosuit and spider, and battle the horrors lurking in the dark. Unravel the mysteries buried in the depths of the Wall!
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Necrosmith 2
Single-player alternative to Karate Survivor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Karate Survivor.
Like a dead man reanimated by dark sorcery, the necromancer simulator is back! Give the undead the ability to fly over mountains and swim across rivers, explore a fully generated world at night and fend off enemy hordes during the day. Start a new, uhm, life.
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They Always Run
Single-player alternative to Karate Survivor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Karate Survivor.
Become Aiden, a three-armed mutant who hunts the most dangerous bounties in the galaxy. Catch, slice, dice and destroy enemies in this exciting 2D platformer with a space-western setting.
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The Happy Hereafter
Single-player alternative to Karate Survivor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Karate Survivor.
Welcome to The Happy Hereafter, a casual sim in which you guide the newly dead as they build an afterlife for themselves and their fellow lost souls. There will be no rest for the wickedly funny as you put them to work building a village to rival Paradise!
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The Last Gas Station
Single-player alternative to Karate Survivor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Karate Survivor.
In a world where electric cars reign supreme, you are now the owner of an old gas station out in the wilderness. Establish trade, develop your business and uncover the secret of this strange place in the compact gas station simulator.