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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Wunderling DX
Single-player alternative to Deadlings: Rotten Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadlings: Rotten Edition.
Dash, jump, and fly at full speed through Wunderling DX: a non-stop puzzle platformer and the world's first "goomba simulator"! Race against the clock, beat tricky puzzles to uncover shiny secrets, and stomp the odds to please your evil overlord!
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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.
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Life Goes On: Done to Death
Single-player alternative to Deadlings: Rotten Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadlings: Rotten Edition.
A comical puzzle platformer where you must die to progress. The bodies you leave behind are your only tools to solve puzzles on your quest to find the Cup of Life.
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Dead Rising® 2
Single-player alternative to Deadlings: Rotten Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Deadlings: Rotten Edition.
The sequel to the million-plus selling Dead Rising, Dead Rising 2 takes the zombie survival horror to Fortune City, America’s latest and greatest entertainment playground.
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DEADBOLT
Single-player alternative to Deadlings: Rotten Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadlings: Rotten Edition.
DEADBOLT is an extremely challenging stealth-action hybrid that allows you to take control of the reaper to quell the recent undead uprising.
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Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse
Single-player alternative to Deadlings: Rotten Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Deadlings: Rotten Edition.
Be the Zombie. Kick A** and Take Brains.
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FOTONICA
Single-player alternative to Deadlings: Rotten Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadlings: Rotten Edition.
Ever wondered what running at 140mph feels like? FOTONICA is a first-person game about the thrill of speed and traveling flawlessly through complex environments.FOTONICA is simple, but is not easy: it follows a tradition of arcade games that are easy to pick up and almost impossible to master.
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Deadlight
Single-player alternative to Deadlings: Rotten Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadlings: Rotten Edition.
“Probably the best downloadable title on the market right now.” 9/10 – Eurogamer.se
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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...
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Valor Mortis
Single-player alternative to Deadlings: Rotten Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Deadlings: Rotten Edition.
Valor Mortis is a first-person action soulslike from the creators of Ghostrunner. Rise from death as a former soldier of Napoleon’s army. Wield supernatural powers, battle horrifying monsters, and unravel a conspiracy that threatens all of humanity.