Single-player games like Metal Garden
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Metal Garden, 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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Skin Deep
Single-player alternative to Metal Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Metal Garden.
Skin Deep is an immersive first-person shooter. We got sneezing. We got things getting stuck in your feet. Stalk through a vast non-linear starship and sneak, subvert, and sabotage to survive in this stellar sandbox. You're outnumbered, outgunned, and have no shoes. Welcome to Skin Deep!
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Starship Fighters: Space Combat Simulator
Single-player alternative to Metal Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Metal Garden.
Pilot your starship in Starship Fighters, a realistic space combat simulator. Engage in intense battles, explore vast galaxies, and unleash destruction with an arsenal of powerful weapons in a universe teeming with enemies!
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Genotype
Single-player alternative to Metal Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Metal Garden.
Your weapons are alive! Print creatures and use them as weapons and tools as you explore this Metroidvania FPS adventure. Morph yourself tiny, upgrade, and locate collectibles to advance to the next boss. Explore large non-linear maps and explore an environment woven together with a complex story.
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NERF Legends
Single-player alternative to Metal Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Metal Garden.
NERF Legends thrusts you into a futuristic, sci-fi world where you’ll come face-to-face with legions of robot enemies and ultimate boss masters.
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Titanfall® 2
Single-player alternative to Metal Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Metal Garden.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
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Invasion Resistance 2
Single-player alternative to Metal Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Metal Garden.
A PC first-person shooter game with a short single-player campaign containing 13 maps and several cut-scenes.
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Bash The Party
Single-player alternative to Metal Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Metal Garden.
Bash The Party is a fast-paced Wick-esque FPS game set in a futuristic cyberpunk environment. Use different pistols, carbines and rifles to fight with your enemies. You must be fast and precise to move through this cinematic game.
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Retchid
Single-player alternative to Metal Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Metal Garden.
You are a TEC Engineer from Earth ordered to retrieve and return sensitive data from the TEC Mining Facility on Titan. On arrival, you discover that the facility has been invaded by beings from another realm. Contend with these abominations as you complete your mission and escape Titan.
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Quake
Single-player alternative to Metal Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Metal Garden.
Developed by the award-winning id Software, Quake® is the ground-breaking, original dark fantasy first-person shooter that inspires today’s retro-style FPS games. With Quake (Enhanced), experience the authentic, updated, and visually enhanced version of the original.
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Manifold Garden
Single-player alternative to Metal Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Metal Garden.
Rediscover gravity and explore an Escher-esque world of impossible architecture. Witness infinity in first-person and master its rules to solve physics-defying puzzles. Cultivate a garden to open new paths forward, where an eternal expanse awaits.
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Portal 2
Single-player alternative to Metal Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Metal Garden.
The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
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Quake II
Single-player alternative to Metal Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Metal Garden.
You are humanity’s last hope to stop the Strogg, a hostile alien race waging war against Earth. Play this military sci-fi FPS, now upgraded for modern platforms with improved visuals, new campaign content, online multiplayer/co-op, and more.
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The Beginner's Guide
Single-player alternative to Metal Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Metal Garden.
The Beginner's Guide is a narrative video game from Davey Wreden, the creator of The Stanley Parable. It lasts about an hour and a half and has no traditional mechanics, no goals or objectives. Instead, it tells the story of a person struggling to deal with something they do not understand.
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DOOM
Single-player alternative to Metal Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Metal Garden.
Now includes all three premium DLC packs (Unto the Evil, Hell Followed, and Bloodfall), maps, modes, and weapons, as well as all feature updates including Arcade Mode, Photo Mode, and the latest Update 6.66, which brings further multiplayer improvements as well as revamps multiplayer progression.
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EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair
Single-player alternative to Metal Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Metal Garden.
It's a fight for the future of the planet between the Ravagers, a merciless swarm of alien invaders, and the Earth Defense Force (EDF) in this third-person shooter.Play as four different classes in over 80 missions with a range of 800 weapons at your disposal.Co-op play supported.
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NieR:Automata™
Single-player alternative to Metal Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Metal Garden.
NieR: Automata tells the story of androids 2B, 9S and A2 and their battle to reclaim the machine-driven dystopia overrun by powerful machines.