Single-player games like Dead Island Retro Revenge
Below are 12 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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NEVER SAFE IN DELAWARE
Single-player alternative to Dead Island Retro Revenge — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Island Retro Revenge.
NEO-INDUSTRIAL URBAN COMBAT IN THE ALTERNATIVE MILLENNIUM.
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Bullet Vendetta
Single-player alternative to Dead Island Retro Revenge — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Dead Island Retro Revenge.
Bullet Vendetta is a dynamic top-down shooter about the fight against the mafia that controls the city.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.