Single-player games like Night Swarm
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Night Swarm, 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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hexGame: Hero Path
Single-player alternative to Night Swarm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Night Swarm.
The world needs a hero — choose yours. Any NPC can become the chosen one. Explore a living, procedurally generated hex world, carve your own path, craft unique combinations of weapons, tools, and relics, and fight through relentless hordes in fast-paced combat. Every run is different.
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Dark Sorcery
Single-player alternative to Night Swarm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Night Swarm.
Dark Sorcery is a dark fantasy roguelite where you battle endless hordes, unlock powerful upgrades, and create devastating builds. Master movement, teleportation, and strategy to survive increasingly dangerous enemy waves.
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Hell Clock
Single-player alternative to Night Swarm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Night Swarm.
Forge powerful builds with endless loot in this relentless combination of Roguelike and ARPG. Blast through dungeons and unleash inhuman powers in a dark fantasy twist on Brazil’s War of Canudos.
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Cavern
Single-player alternative to Night Swarm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Night Swarm.
Experiment, Explore, and Swap in Cavern, a roguelike sandbox. All objects in the world can be swapped out at will. Swap slimes into harmless pots, turn enemy projectiles into countless health potions, and discover hidden interactions to conquer the ever-changing depths of Mirror Cavern.
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Unwanted Dungeon
Single-player alternative to Night Swarm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Night Swarm.
A dark fantasy survivorslike with classic ARPG essence: Deep builds, rare loot, NPC shops, shared storage, and a semi-procedural dungeon with bosses, events, and curses. Fast-paced roguelite action meets old-school dungeon crawling. Every lost run is a new idea. Welcome to Unwanted Dungeon!
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Ember and Blade
Single-player alternative to Night Swarm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Night Swarm.
Become the immortal hunter and stand against the archdemon Asmodeus. Cut through bullet-hell swarms, clash with Souls-like bosses, and harness celestial blessings that reshape your powers each run. The demons are rising—raise your sword.
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Order of Beast
Single-player alternative to Night Swarm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Casual with Night Swarm.
A horde-survivor roguelite set across cursed realms. Choose an outcast hero, forge evolving skills, collect strange relics, and survive wave after wave until you face the old lords who still rule the ruins.
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Penguin Weapons
Single-player alternative to Night Swarm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Night Swarm.
Penguin Weapons is a dynamic action roguelite about penguins that collect artifacts, creating absurdly crazy weapons, fight monsters and bosses, unlock stylish clothes, and explore increasingly difficult worlds full of unique combinations and unpredictability alone or with friends.
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Vampire Survivors
Single-player alternative to Night Swarm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Night Swarm.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
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Rogue: Genesia
Single-player alternative to Night Swarm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Night Swarm.
Walk upon a new world and slay foes endangering it. Rogue : Genesia is an action rogue-lite game, where you fight relentless hordes consisting of hundreds and thousands of monsters, make your build, break the balance, defeat bosses and save one of the many worlds.
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Hades
Single-player alternative to Night Swarm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Night Swarm.
Defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash out of the Underworld in this rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre.
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Spirit Hunters: Infinite Horde
Single-player alternative to Night Swarm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Night Swarm.
You are the Spirit Hunters in this action rogue-lite. Slay huge waves of monsters and harvest their souls for ever increasing power. Unlock many playable characters, abilities, maps and more through a deep progression system.
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Army of Ruin
Single-player alternative to Night Swarm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Casual with Night Swarm.
Wreak havoc on countless foes with mighty weapons and deadly spells! Enhance your skills and face even greater dangers! Army of Ruin is an auto-shooter where you become the Bullet Hell.
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Nordic Ashes: Survivors of Ragnarok
Single-player alternative to Night Swarm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Night Swarm.
Nordic Ashes: Survivors of Ragnarok, is a challenging Norse inspired roguelite-survivor game, where you’ll have to survive hordes of creatures that come your way.
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Yet Another Zombie Survivors
Single-player alternative to Night Swarm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Night Swarm.
The Horde is coming but you're ready to fight it! Assemble your team and decide upon their enhancements to find the most efficient synergies against thousands of the undead. Survive. Then evolve. Then break all the limits in this deceivingly simple but addictive bullet heaven game.
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Champion Shift
Single-player alternative to Night Swarm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Night Swarm.
Unleash mighty Champions in this thrilling co-op bullet heaven. Shift into battle, create builds with unique abilities, and battle endless enemies to stop the Dominion's path of conquest. Rev through high octane missions, conquer epic bosses, and become an absolute legend!
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Rogue Loops
Single-player alternative to Night Swarm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Night Swarm.
Rogue Loops is a roguelite action game where a trapped family battles to escape an endless loop. Combine unique skills and relics to create powerful synergies against the loop’s guardians. As you grow stronger, so does the loop—can you break free from this relentless cycle?