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Single-player games like CRYPTARK

Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to CRYPTARK, 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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    Rush Rover — Steam game cover

    Rush Rover

    Single-player alternative to CRYPTARK — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with CRYPTARK.

    Rush Rover is a 2D top-down shooter game. Compared to other similar games of the genre, the shooting experience is closer to traditional shoot'em up games. It includes random map generation, unique weapons, lots of different enemies, exciting boss battles and a dynamic chiptune soundtrack.

    2017ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    One Step From Eden — Steam game cover

    One Step From Eden

    Single-player alternative to CRYPTARK — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with CRYPTARK.

    Build a powerful deck, cast spells on the fly, battle evolving enemies, find game-changing artifacts, make friends or make enemies, just make it to Eden.

    2020ActionStrategyIndie7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Kill to Collect — Steam game cover

    Kill to Collect

    Single-player alternative to CRYPTARK — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with CRYPTARK.

    Welcome to the last city on Earth. Earn your keep and die trying in Pieces Interactive’s cyberpunk action rogue-like, featuring 1-4 player co-op. Travel down the sleepless cesspool of murderous vagrants and cybernetic freaks, as you slice and dice your way to the lower levels of Geoshelter Alpha.

    2016ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    I Hate Running Backwards — Steam game cover

    I Hate Running Backwards

    Single-player alternative to CRYPTARK — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with CRYPTARK.

    I Hate Running Backwards is a never-ending adrenaline packed shoot'em down roguelite that puts the emphasis on destruction and fighting never ending waves of enemies while time traveling through procedurally generated worlds!

    2018ActionIndie14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Streets of Rogue — Steam game cover

    Streets of Rogue

    Single-player alternative to CRYPTARK — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with CRYPTARK.

    Fight, sneak, and hack your way through randomly generated cities. It's like Nuclear Throne meets Deus Ex, mixed with the anarchy of GTA. Rogue-lite meets immersive sim, and goes completely insane.

    2019ActionIndieAdventure3.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    NeuroVoider — Steam game cover

    NeuroVoider

    Single-player alternative to CRYPTARK — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with CRYPTARK.

    NeuroVoider is a twin-stick shooter RPG set in a cyber futuristic world about brains shooting around evil robots with nuclear rocket launchers. Battle through the horde of vigilant robots, boost your character with the smoking remains of your victims, and defeat the master NeuroVoider.

    2016ActionIndieRPG13.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Neon Chrome — Steam game cover

    Neon Chrome

    Single-player alternative to CRYPTARK — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with CRYPTARK.

    A masterful combination of top-down shooter and endless replayability with procedural levels. Blast your way through walls & enemies with guns and cybernetic abilities. Install perks from cyber chambers and upgrade your character stats after each death. Can you stop the Overseer?

    2016ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Heat Signature — Steam game cover

    Heat Signature

    Single-player alternative to CRYPTARK — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with CRYPTARK.

    Heat Signature is a game from the developers of Gunpoint where you break into spaceships, make terrible mistakes, and think of clever ways out of them. You take a mission, fly to the target ship, sneak inside, and make clever use of your gadgets to distract, ambush and take out the crew.

    2017ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    GUNHEAD — Steam game cover

    GUNHEAD

    Single-player alternative to CRYPTARK — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with CRYPTARK.

    Gunhead is a fast paced strategic roguelike FPS where you take the role of a pirate mech with a gun for a head, looting derelict spaceships filled with monstrous drones made out of bone and steel. Sequel to the 2d roguelite Cryptark.

    2023ActionIndie19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Wytchwood — Steam game cover

    Wytchwood

    Single-player alternative to CRYPTARK — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with CRYPTARK.

    Wytchwood is a crafting adventure game set in a land of gothic fables and fairytales. As the old witch of the woods, explore a strange countryside, collect magic ingredients, brew sorcerous spells, and pass judgement upon a capricious cast of characters.

    2021IndieAdventureRPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Apotheon — Steam game cover

    Apotheon

    Single-player alternative to CRYPTARK — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with CRYPTARK.

    Apotheon is a heroic action game set within the vibrant world of Ancient Greek Mythology. Ascend Mount Olympus, wrestle the divine powers from the Pantheon of Gods, and save mankind.

    2015ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Capsized — Steam game cover

    Capsized

    Single-player alternative to CRYPTARK — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with CRYPTARK.

    Capsized is a fast paced 2D platformer focused on intense action and exploration. As a intrepid space traveler, your ship has crash landed on a mysterious alien planet. You must navigate through the perilous environment and fight off blood-thirsty creatures to save your crewmates and escape with your lives!

    2011ActionIndie9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    DuneCrawl — Steam game cover

    DuneCrawl

    Single-player alternative to CRYPTARK — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with CRYPTARK.

    DuneCrawl is an open world action-adventure game, where you take to the sandy seas atop a gigantic crustacean festooned with black powder cannons. Play as a solo Crab Keeper, or with a crew of up to three other friends in local and online coop.

    2026ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Maximum Override — Steam game cover

    Maximum Override

    Single-player alternative to CRYPTARK — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with CRYPTARK.

    Maximum Override is a chaotic city destruction game where the machines come alive. Wreak havoc in a fully destructible randomly generated city with anything you can find.

    2017ActionIndieSimulation6.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Autocraft — Steam game cover

    Autocraft

    Single-player alternative to CRYPTARK — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with CRYPTARK.

    Create, Collect, and Crash in Autocraft, a physics destruction sandbox. Create your own cars, rockets, tanks, planes, boats, and more.

    2017IndieSimulationCasual9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Modbox — Steam game cover

    Modbox

    Single-player alternative to CRYPTARK — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with CRYPTARK.

    Modbox is a multiplayer game creation sandbox for Desktop+VR

    2016ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →