Single-player games like Backroom Cleaners
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Backroom Cleaners, 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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Hours After Midnight
Single-player alternative to Backroom Cleaners — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Backroom Cleaners.
Dive deep into a roguelike survival quest against Rettam'diov, the Consumer of Worlds. Progress, earn experience, refine characters, and uncover potent tools. Face relentless hordes alone or amplify the thrill, teaming up cross-platform in our distinctive co-op mode.
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Mauled Horde
Single-player alternative to Backroom Cleaners — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Backroom Cleaners.
Mauled Horde is a Free-To-Play indie Third-Person Shooter made by a solo developer. Play solo or in co-op, fight relentless hordes across varied maps, collect weapons, activate traps, buy upgrades, and survive rising difficulty round after round.
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Shadow Survival
Single-player alternative to Backroom Cleaners — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Backroom Cleaners.
Unleash familiar and unfathomable weaponry upon hordes of demonic forces and fight for survival along side your friends in this story-driven online action game.
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NOT ENOUGH SPACE
Single-player alternative to Backroom Cleaners — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Backroom Cleaners.
Shoot to move. Move to survive. A space action roguelike about momentum, chaotic battles, loot, builds, and bosses.
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Cosmic Corps
Single-player alternative to Backroom Cleaners — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Backroom Cleaners.
Dimension hop to freedom across hostile planets. Blast, slash, and laser alien hordes while crafting powerful synergies by combining unlockable skills with infinitely stacking items and perks. Become unstoppable in this action roguelike—and confront the Entity beyond the Rift.
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通缉令 wanted poster
Single-player alternative to Backroom Cleaners — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Backroom Cleaners.
Top-down barrage shooter. Refer to the Vampire Ancient Survivor Meat Pigeon gameplay to add barrage, random character attributes, and random equipment.
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Gatekeeper: Eclipse
Single-player alternative to Backroom Cleaners — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Backroom Cleaners.
Fast-paced rogue-lite shooter. Gatekeeper: Eclipse is a prologue ver. of the game Gatekeeper. Go on a quest to find the stolen Heart of the Universe and shoot your way through the hordes of machine enemies!
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Gatekeeper: Infinity
Single-player alternative to Backroom Cleaners — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Backroom Cleaners.
Prologue version of the game Gatekeeper. Gatekeeper: Infinity is a fast-paced rogue-lite shooter where you'll search for the stolen Heart of the Universe and battle machine enemies! Play solo or join forces with friends in co-op mode.
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Backroom Company
Single-player alternative to Backroom Cleaners — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Backroom Company (aka Async Corporation) is a mysterious group exploring “Noclip.” No one knows who created it. Follow the missing explorers' traces and find strange items deep in the Backrooms.