Single-player games like Dead Island Retro Revenge
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Dead Island Retro Revenge, 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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The Walking Dead: Streets of Survival
Single-player alternative to Dead Island Retro Revenge — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Island Retro Revenge.
Fight walkers as Rick Grimes, Daryl Dixon, Michonne, and unlockable Negan in a brutal arcade brawler set in the world of AMC’s The Walking Dead. Face ruthless enemies like the Saviors and overwhelming walker swarms as you unleash relentless combos, signature weapon attacks, and crushing finishers.
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Mother Russia Bleeds
Single-player alternative to Dead Island Retro Revenge — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Island Retro Revenge.
An old-fashioned beat 'em up with big doses of adrenaline and trippiness, somewhere between the classic style of Streets of Rage and the ultra-violence of Hotline Miami. Set in a cold, ruthless Soviet Union, Mother Russia Bleeds aims to conjure up anxiety, unease, and drug-addled frenzy.
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APE OUT
Single-player alternative to Dead Island Retro Revenge — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Island Retro Revenge.
APE OUT is a wildly intense and colorfully stylized smash ‘em up about primal escape, rhythmic violence, and frenetic jazz.
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Escape Dead Island
Single-player alternative to Dead Island Retro Revenge — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Escape Dead Island is a Survival-Mystery adventure that lets players delve into the Dead Island universe and unravel the origins of the zombie outbreak.
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Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun
Single-player alternative to Dead Island Retro Revenge — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Island Retro Revenge.
Load up your Boltgun and unleash the awesome Space Marine arsenal to blast your way through an explosion of sprites, pixels and blood in a perfect blend of Warhammer 40,000, frenetic gameplay and the stylish visuals of 90’s retro shooters.
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Onechanbara Z2: Chaos
Single-player alternative to Dead Island Retro Revenge — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Island Retro Revenge.
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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Not Dying Today
Single-player alternative to Dead Island Retro Revenge — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Island Retro Revenge.
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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Hotline Miami
Single-player alternative to Dead Island Retro Revenge — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Island Retro Revenge.
Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat.
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Streets of Rage 4
Single-player alternative to Dead Island Retro Revenge — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Island Retro Revenge.
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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Symphony
Single-player alternative to Dead Island Retro Revenge — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Island Retro Revenge.
A mysterious entity is absorbing and corrupting your music before your very eyes. You must battle through your own song collection and fight to reclaim your music!
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Attack of the Bugs
Single-player alternative to Dead Island Retro Revenge — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Island Retro Revenge.
The ultimate VR tower defense game; YOU are the tower! Your enemies? Hordes of scream-inducing crawlers. Your defenses? Beloved childhood toys and whatever household objects you can craft into a weapon.
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Gargoyles Remastered
Single-player alternative to Dead Island Retro Revenge — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Island Retro Revenge.
Relive the legend of Goliath and save the world from destruction.
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Cosmi: Forbidden Forest & Beyond
Single-player alternative to Dead Island Retro Revenge — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Island Retro Revenge.
A celebration of pioneering 1980s games, this new-and-old collection of classic C64™ games originally published by Cosmi includes a medieval styled remake of Forbidden Forest with all new graphics and audio, new comic book stories and remade box art, plus a trove of archival bonus material.