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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Polycar Blitz
Single-player alternative to Karate Survivor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Karate Survivor.
Shift into high gear and defend the moon! In this top-down rougelike vehicle shooter, gun down monsters and upgrade your Polycar to fend off against increasingly difficult waves of alien invaders! Do you have what it takes to win?
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Swarmcade
Single-player alternative to Karate Survivor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Karate Survivor.
Survive the relentless swarm in this arcade take on the Bullet Heaven/Survivors-like Action Roguelite. Slay 1000s of foes, level up, loot chests and make your character more powerful than ever. Unlock meta-progression upgrades and more heroes, so you can even the odds on future runs.
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Rogue: Genesia
Single-player alternative to Karate Survivor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Casual with Karate Survivor.
Walk upon a new world and slay foes endangering it. Rogue : Genesia is an action rogue-lite game, where you fight relentless hordes consisting of hundreds and thousands of monsters, make your build, break the balance, defeat bosses and save one of the many worlds.
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Sharded World
Single-player alternative to Karate Survivor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Karate Survivor.
Sharded World is a reversed bullet hell, rogue-lite, ARPG game combining simple gameplay and great rpg progression. Each level has its own unique features and challenges. Upgradable characters, weapons and orbs. Challenges, daily quests, and leaderboards. Fight, get stronger and defeat the Lich!
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Breaking Survivors
Single-player alternative to Karate Survivor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Casual with Karate Survivor.
Brick-breaking gameplay meets Survivors-like mechanics. Use your balls to destroy bricks, level up and pick upgrades to hold your ground against waves of incoming bricks and try to high score in this roguelite brick breaking game.
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Noobs Want to Live
Single-player alternative to Karate Survivor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Karate Survivor.
Noobs Want to Live is a fast-paced roguelike featuring several characters and a large pool of skills to choose from (that synergize with one another, too!) Fight, kill, grow. Each run is a new chance to create a steamrolling build!
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Skybreakers
Single-player alternative to Karate Survivor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Karate Survivor.
Skybreakers is an action roguelike thriller. Choose from various characters, arm yourself with a vast array of weapons, and create your own unique build by combining artifacts, random talents, abilities, and bonds. Plunge into exhilarating combat and use unique abilities to defeat the evil.
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Doomsday Hunters
Single-player alternative to Karate Survivor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Karate Survivor.
Shoot stuff in a perfect pixel world, combine items, build guns, die every time! Roguelite twin-stick shooter where magic and post-apocalyptic future technologies collide. Defeat evil lord Dracula and save everyone!
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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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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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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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Putrefaction 2: Rumble in the hometown
Single-player alternative to Karate Survivor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Karate Survivor.
Putrefaction 2: Rumble in the hometown is a stand-alone campaign for Putrefaction 2: Void Walker, with new levels and enemies to fight. You can play this game without purchasing original Putrefaction 2.
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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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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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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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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.