Single-player games like Monsters and Monocles
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Monsters and Monocles, 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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Monsters 'til Midnight
Single-player alternative to Monsters and Monocles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Monsters and Monocles.
Use steampunk weaponry to vanquish the legions of evil and survive until the clock strikes midnight! In this fast-paced horde survival game, each powerful upgrade can help turn the tide. Go it alone, or join another player in your pursuit to outlast the inevitable march of time itself!
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Nuclear Throne
Single-player alternative to Monsters and Monocles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Monsters and Monocles.
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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Woodpunk
Single-player alternative to Monsters and Monocles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Monsters and Monocles.
Woodpunk is an exhilarating roguelike bullet hell retro pixel art shooter in a medieval Woodpunk universe, where the primary energy resource is WOOD.
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Rogue Star Rescue
Single-player alternative to Monsters and Monocles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Monsters and Monocles.
Bullet Hell Insanity + Tower Defense Strategy. Rogue Star Rescue is a quirky new type of rogue-like shooter. Blast your way through diverse planets while rescuing your teammates and gathering traps for your defense strategy. Play solo or online to stop the Rogue Star before it annihilates everything!
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Repetendium
Single-player alternative to Monsters and Monocles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Monsters and Monocles.
Repetendium is a top-down roguelike-lite shooter. Select from a rowdy group of characters to play as and wield an ever expanding variety of gear and items to conquer the underworld. Death awaits...
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Serious Sam's Bogus Detour
Single-player alternative to Monsters and Monocles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Monsters and Monocles.
Serious Sam’s Bogus Detour is an all-new action-adventure in the legendary Serious Sam saga from Hammerwatch developer Crackshell.
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Mega City Force
Single-player alternative to Monsters and Monocles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Monsters and Monocles.
Retrowave Action Roguelike featuring tough agents battling crime to the electrifying music of artists like Droid Bishop, Timecop1983, and more! Choose your agent and dive into hardcore action against enemies and bosses, utilizing a vast arsenal and special abilities that will define your playstyle
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Toroom
Single-player alternative to Monsters and Monocles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Monsters and Monocles.
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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The Binding of Isaac
Single-player alternative to Monsters and Monocles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Monsters and Monocles.
Now 20% More Evil with the Free Halloween update!
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TowerFall Ascension
Single-player alternative to Monsters and Monocles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Monsters and Monocles.
TowerFall Ascension is the definitive version of the hit archery combat game. Inspired by classics from the golden age of couch multiplayer, it's a 4-player local party game centering around hilarious, intense versus matches. The core mechanics are simple and accessible, but hard to master and combat is fierce.
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Enter the Gungeon
Single-player alternative to Monsters and Monocles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Monsters and Monocles.
Enter the Gungeon is a bullet hell dungeon crawler following a band of misfits seeking to shoot, loot, dodge roll and table-flip their way to personal absolution by reaching the legendary Gungeon’s ultimate treasure: the gun that can kill the past.
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Hades
Single-player alternative to Monsters and Monocles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Monsters and Monocles.
Defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash out of the Underworld in this rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre.