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Single-player games like Deadlings: Rotten Edition

Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Deadlings: Rotten Edition, 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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    Mayhem in Single Valley: Confessions — Steam game cover

    Mayhem in Single Valley: Confessions

    Single-player alternative to Deadlings: Rotten Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadlings: Rotten Edition.

    Mayhem in Single Valley is an action-adventure full of radioactive squirrels. You are a boy who's just started the Apocalypse in his hometown. Mix monster feeding with your housework and zombie assault with your family dinner. CONFESSIONS is a free chapter featuring some bits of Jack's journey.

    2020ActionIndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Orange Moon — Steam game cover

    Orange Moon

    Single-player alternative to Deadlings: Rotten Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadlings: Rotten Edition.

    Search for new life forms as you try to survive on a mysterious hostile world in the surreal 2D action-platformer Orange Moon.

    2017ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Hamilton's Great Adventure — Steam game cover

    Hamilton's Great Adventure

    Single-player alternative to Deadlings: Rotten Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deadlings: Rotten Edition.

    All new DLC, Retro Fever, Now Available!

    2011IndieAdventureCasual9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    BlackEye — Steam game cover

    BlackEye

    Single-player alternative to Deadlings: Rotten Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadlings: Rotten Edition.

    BlackEye is an adventure game, and its main character is the inhabitant of the world of Koyte. This mysterious world is divided into two - upper and lower ones. No one inhabitant of the upper world would voluntarily go down to the lower world. However the main character has to reach the bottom!

    2017ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Endorlight — Steam game cover

    Endorlight

    Single-player alternative to Deadlings: Rotten Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadlings: Rotten Edition.

    Endorlight is rogue-like game in which you have to find a way out to the next level. Each level contains a new and tougher enemies. Used your axe, bow or whip to defeat them! Collect gold, goes to higher levels and kill many enemies as possible and be the best on Steam Leaderboar

    2016ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Cursed Castilla (Maldita Castilla EX) — Steam game cover

    Cursed Castilla (Maldita Castilla EX)

    Single-player alternative to Deadlings: Rotten Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadlings: Rotten Edition.

    Cursed Castilla (Maldita Castilla EX) is an arcade action platformer full of creatures from medieval myths from Spain and the rest of Europe, as well as from chivalric romances. The extended version of the classic Maldita Castilla, originally created by the indie Locomalito.

    2016ActionIndieAdventure11.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Disc Room — Steam game cover

    Disc Room

    Single-player alternative to Deadlings: Rotten Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadlings: Rotten Edition.

    Are you ready to get sliced in half? The year is 2089 and a giant disc has appeared in orbit of Jupiter. Step into the oversized space suit of a brave scientist and explore this sprawling intergalactic slaughterhouse.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    On A Roll 3D — Steam game cover

    On A Roll 3D

    Single-player alternative to Deadlings: Rotten Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadlings: Rotten Edition.

    On A Roll 3D is a fast, colourful 3D platform game. Roll your way through 24 huge levels across six different themes and be prepared to take on spikes, mines, dynamite, conveyor belts, springs, switches, doors, bumpers, lasers, saws, fire, ice, water, electricity, trapdoors and much much more.

    2015ActionIndieAdventure3.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Stealth Bastard Deluxe — Steam game cover

    Stealth Bastard Deluxe

    Single-player alternative to Deadlings: Rotten Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadlings: Rotten Edition.

    Armed with only your wits and a pair of Stealthing Goggles, it’s your job to sneak your way through a deadly facility that’s determined to extinguish your fragile little life.

    2012ActionIndie1.29 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Braid — Steam game cover

    Braid

    Single-player alternative to Deadlings: Rotten Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Deadlings: Rotten Edition.

    This is the original version of Braid from 2009, which may not work well on newer systems. For an updated version of the game with nicer graphics, more levels and a large amount of developer commentary, see Braid, Anniversary Edition.

    2009StrategyIndieCasual14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    LIMBO — Steam game cover

    LIMBO

    Single-player alternative to Deadlings: Rotten Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadlings: Rotten Edition.

    Uncertain of his sister's fate, a boy enters LIMBO

    2011ActionIndieAdventure12.49 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Ghostrunner — Steam game cover

    Ghostrunner

    Single-player alternative to Deadlings: Rotten Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Deadlings: Rotten Edition.

    Ghostrunner offers a unique single-player experience: fast-paced, violent combat, and an original setting that blends science fiction with post-apocalyptic themes. It tells the story of a world that has already ended and its inhabitants who fight to survive.

    2020Action19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Ghostrunner 2 — Steam game cover

    Ghostrunner 2

    Single-player alternative to Deadlings: Rotten Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Deadlings: Rotten Edition.

    Blood will run in Ghostrunner 2, a hardcore FPP slasher set in a post-apocalyptic cyberpunk future. Become the ultimate cyber ninja and prepare for epic boss fights, improved skills, an interactive story, new game modes, and captivating synthwave soundtrack.

    2023ActionStrategyAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    God's Trigger — Steam game cover

    God's Trigger

    Single-player alternative to Deadlings: Rotten Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadlings: Rotten Edition.

    Slay enemies with speed and precision in an over-the-top show of blood and explosions. Play solo or with others, make split-second decisions, dodge bullets, and use weapons and abilities to inflict violence in the most graphic way possible.

    2019ActionIndie14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Crime Secrets: Crimson Lily — Steam game cover

    Crime Secrets: Crimson Lily

    Single-player alternative to Deadlings: Rotten Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Deadlings: Rotten Edition.

    Stop the mysterious killer!

    2016AdventureCasual14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Race To Mars — Steam game cover

    Race To Mars

    Single-player alternative to Deadlings: Rotten Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Deadlings: Rotten Edition.

    Race To Mars is a turn-based, space company simulation game. Become the head of the newly established “New Space” company whose goal would be to establish a colony on Mars. You begin as a startup - develop cutting edge aerospace technologies and use them to achieve orbit and fly beyond Earth vicinity, blazing the trail of a space pioneer...

    2014StrategyIndieSimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →