Single-player games like Paint the Town Red
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Paint the Town Red, 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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Clone Drone in the Danger Zone
Single-player alternative to Paint the Town Red — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Paint the Town Red.
Clone Drone in the Danger Zone is a robot voxel slice-em-up where any part of your body can be sliced off. With your mind downloaded into a robot gladiator, you must survive the sinister trials of the arena.
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Melon Simulator™
Single-player alternative to Paint the Town Red — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Paint the Town Red.
Melon Simulator™ is a chaotic, co-op (1 - 4 players), first person melee combat game. Almost anything that isn't nailed down can be used to whack, slice, and throw at the oncoming melon hoard...
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Drunken Fist 2: Zombie Hangover
Single-player alternative to Paint the Town Red — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Paint the Town Red.
Filled with blood, gore and loss of limbs depicted in light-hearted low-poly style, Drunken Fist 2: Zombie Hangover is a whimsical take on survival horror, featuring physics-based beat ‘em up action and ragdoll takedowns that no sober player would take seriously.
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DESERT KILL
Single-player alternative to Paint the Town Red — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Paint the Town Red.
DESERT KILL is a roguelite top-down shooter where you have to destroy evil forces in the most brutal way!
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Iron Snout
Single-player alternative to Paint the Town Red — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Paint the Town Red.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
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Rampage Knights
Single-player alternative to Paint the Town Red — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Paint the Town Red.
Rampage Knights is a cooperative beat 'em up game mixed up with randomized dungeon crawling and exploration, which you can play alone or with a friend online.
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Spartan Fist
Single-player alternative to Paint the Town Red — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Paint the Town Red.
Fight your way to fame, fortune and glory in this first-person puncher roguelite as you work to retrieve the fabled Spartan Fist. Tap your inner badass, and punch dudes so hard they explode.
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Katana Kata
Single-player alternative to Paint the Town Red — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Paint the Town Red.
Indie souls-like with innovative fight system where you practice your Katana on the path for endless improvement; again and again.
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Teardown
Single-player alternative to Paint the Town Red — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Paint the Town Red.
Prepare the perfect heist in a fully destructible, simulated voxel world. Tear down walls with vehicles or use explosives to create your own shortcuts. Shape the environment to your advantage in the most creative ways you can imagine. Play solo or with up to 12 players in multiplayer.
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Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
Single-player alternative to Paint the Town Red — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
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Sonic Generations Collection
Single-player alternative to Paint the Town Red — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Paint the Town Red.
Celebrate 20 years of Sonic in an all new adventure that delivers a definitive experience to Sonic fans new and old!
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ELDERBORN
Single-player alternative to Paint the Town Red — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Paint the Town Red.
ELDERBORN - a Metal AF* Slasher with brutal FPP melee combat and souls-like/RPG character progression. In the times of legend, barbarian tribes need a new dark messiah. Be that merciless slayer. Uncover ancient secrets in the city of doom. Forge your own destiny! *Action Fantasy.
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Hotline Miami
Single-player alternative to Paint the Town Red — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Paint the Town Red.
Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat.
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Sunset Overdrive
Single-player alternative to Paint the Town Red — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Paint the Town Red.
Sunset Overdrive transforms an open-world apocalypse into your tactical playground. Zip, grind and wall-run across Sunset City with an unconventional arsenal. Hyper-agility, unique weapons, and customizable abilities deliver an explosive and irreverent adventure in the end times.
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People Playground
Single-player alternative to Paint the Town Red — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Paint the Town Red.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
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Just Cause™ 3
Single-player alternative to Paint the Town Red — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Paint the Town Red.
With over 1000 km² of complete freedom from sky to seabed, Rico Rodriguez returns to unleash chaos in the most creative and explosive ways imaginable.
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Probably Archery
Single-player alternative to Paint the Town Red — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Paint the Town Red.
Manipulate your wrists, elbows and shoulders to get the arrow to the bow, draw it, aim and fire!Probably Archery gives the player more control over the minutia of their joint movements with tons of crazy scenarios to conquer, multiplayer battles to fight and brutal target challenges to dominate.