Single-player games like Rocket Rats
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Rocket Rats, 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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Mystic Gate
Single-player alternative to Rocket Rats — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Rocket Rats.
A Mystic Gate created by the gods suddenly appears in the human world. Adventurers challenge themselves with the tests that await them beyond the gate. In order to earn your wish you must defeat hordes & bosses in this roguelike dungeon exploration bullet hell!!
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Astro Looter: Survivor
Single-player alternative to Rocket Rats — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Rocket Rats.
Explore alien planets to mine resources, kill alien insects, build defense turrets, and survive waves of insect attacks across the galactic frontier. Astro Looter combines elements of survival, roguelike, and tower defense in a top-down shooter.
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Nuclear Throne
Single-player alternative to Rocket Rats — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Rocket Rats.
Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?
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Touhou ~Red Empress Devil.
Single-player alternative to Rocket Rats — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Rocket Rats.
"Touhou ~Red Empress Devil." is a bullet-hell shooting roguelike action game. Set in The Scarlet Devil Mansion, the inhabitants of Gensokyo go on a rampage!
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Apocalypse Party
Single-player alternative to Rocket Rats — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Casual with Rocket Rats.
Apocalypse Party is a 3D top-down action Roguelike game. In this game, you will embark on a new mission to traverse through the Middle Ages and gradually master abilities, and arm yourself to become the strongest survivor through numerous choices.
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Vampire Survivors
Single-player alternative to Rocket Rats — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Casual with Rocket Rats.
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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Doomed to Hell
Single-player alternative to Rocket Rats — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Rocket Rats.
Doomed to Hell is a roguelike-like top-down shooter where you play as Rose, a human in hell who will need to fight all of its monsters in waves of enemies, defeat bosses, and get new weapons to earn back his life on earth.
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Blazing Beaks
Single-player alternative to Rocket Rats — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Rocket Rats.
Roguelite - where too much greediness can be fatal. A colorful world with armed birds blazing their way through piles of mutants, monsters and creepy creatures. Lots of mysteries to unravel, secrets to discover and levels to explore.
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I Am Legion: Stand Survivors
Single-player alternative to Rocket Rats — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Rocket Rats.
Summon your stands and brawl it out! Dive into the thrill of mowing down enemies, synthesizing and upgrading, mining, forging gear, unlocking new characters and equipment. Discover unique stands combos and craft your own battle style to break through the chaos!
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Shelldiver
Single-player alternative to Rocket Rats — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Rocket Rats.
Take a deep breath and dive right into this cozy incremental game about a senior turtle trying to start a business selling jellyfish. Upgrade your equipment, explore biomes, and help your turtly village!
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Archaeogem
Single-player alternative to Rocket Rats — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Hats up and whips out; the wilderness' mysteries await! Explore lush biomes, use your trusty whip to extract wild flowers' mystic powers, and collect rare gems in this dynamic precision-platformer. Unearth archaeological marvels and become a legend!
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Toroom
Single-player alternative to Rocket Rats — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Rocket Rats.
Toroom is a dungeon crawler roguelike-like top-down shooter, where the protagonist just wants to come back to his bedroom after waking up in a world of fantasy. Fight your way through multiple biomes, clear rooms full of enemies, get as much loot as possible and defeat the bosses in your way.
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Colorful Colore
Single-player alternative to Rocket Rats — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Rocket Rats.
Colorful Colore is a Puzzle Labyrinth game, where your objective is to get in the exit matching the correct colors in the way.
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Gemini
Single-player alternative to Rocket Rats — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Rocket Rats.
Gemini is an action tower defense game, where your goal is to protect the crystal and stay alive.
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Wizodd
Single-player alternative to Rocket Rats — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Casual with Rocket Rats.
Wizodd is a dungeon crawler roguelike game where you find various equipment and upgrades while encountering dangerous monsters and bosses to advance down to the lower floors.
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Bob Help Them
Single-player alternative to Rocket Rats — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Rocket Rats.
Bob Help Them is a timer-based game, where your goal is to help all NPC's before the timer ends.