Single-player games like Rock Zombie
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Rock Zombie, 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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Onechanbara Z2: Chaos
Single-player alternative to Rock Zombie — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Rock Zombie.
Onechanbara Z2: Chaos is the latest entry in the Onechanbara series. Two sets of buxom vampire sisters battle through over a dozen stages of high-octane real-time swordplay. Fight off the invasion in gruesome detail, occasionally transforming into a demon for short bursts of added power and speed.
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Guns, Gore & Cannoli
Single-player alternative to Rock Zombie — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rock Zombie.
Guns, Gore & Cannoli - An over-the-top, comical and fast-paced action game with hand-drawn graphics set in the Roaring Twenties. An all-you-can-shoot fest where you embody Vinnie, a mobster with a mission in a city controlled by gangsters and plagued by zombies. Featuring up to 4-man local co-op.
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Not Dying Today
Single-player alternative to Rock Zombie — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rock Zombie.
Not dying today is a 2D side-scrolling action game. In 2030, the world has been taken over by zombies. With fire and blade, bullets and guns, you, captain Aiden, will do anything to protect the last human kind, anything, even turn into a zombie, using zombie power to kill zombies.
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Shank
Single-player alternative to Rock Zombie — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rock Zombie.
Shank is the cult-classic revival of the sidescrolling beat-em-up. Play as Shank in an over-the-top grindhouse game, packed to the rim with enemies, bosses, combos, and more by the award-winning team at Klei Entertainment.
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Wulverblade
Single-player alternative to Rock Zombie — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rock Zombie.
Defeat the Ninth Legion of the Roman army in this side-scrolling, arcade-inspired beat 'em up set in Roman-era Britain.
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Streets of Rage 4
Single-player alternative to Rock Zombie — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rock Zombie.
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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Final Exam
Single-player alternative to Rock Zombie — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rock Zombie.
Jump into the frenzied action and the whacky humor of a pure 2.5D side-scroller! While they were going to their old high school for what was supposed to be the party of their life, four long-time friends end up in a ghost town full of monstrous creatures.
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They Bleed Pixels
Single-player alternative to Rock Zombie — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rock Zombie.
They Bleed Pixels is a fiendishly difficult action platformer inspired by H.P. Lovecraft and classic horror.