Single-player games like 12 is Better Than 6
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to 12 is Better Than 6, 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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Bloodroots
Single-player alternative to 12 is Better Than 6 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with 12 is Better Than 6.
One-hit kill die-retry murderballet. Left for dead by a colorful band of bandits: you will chain killing sprees to exact revenge on the treacherous Mr. Black Wolf. Improvise your kills with utterly everything you can get your hands on: from carrots to plasma guns.
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Bad Business
Single-player alternative to 12 is Better Than 6 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with 12 is Better Than 6.
Bad Business is an extremely challenging top-down tactical shooter game where Mr. Bunny Rabbit, a hitman for the Mob, has been tasked to neutralize the rival Gang. A hard task for any organization, an impossible task for a hitman.
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The Hong Kong Massacre
Single-player alternative to 12 is Better Than 6 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with 12 is Better Than 6.
Blast your way through the streets of Hong Kong in a fast-paced, top-down shooter. Inspired by classic action movies, The Hong Kong Massacre places you at the center of a hard-boiled revenge story, filled with brutal, cinematic shootouts and vivid underworld locations.
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Cardiac Powder
Single-player alternative to 12 is Better Than 6 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with 12 is Better Than 6.
Cardiac Powder is a nervous twin stick shooter where you have a bomb in you, if you can’t maintain a certain heart rate, it will explode… So one thing to do is keep you in action by fighting your opponents!
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Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number
Single-player alternative to 12 is Better Than 6 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with 12 is Better Than 6.
Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number is the brutal conclusion to the Hotline Miami saga, set against a backdrop of escalating violence and retribution over spilled blood in the original game.
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APE OUT
Single-player alternative to 12 is Better Than 6 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with 12 is Better Than 6.
APE OUT is a wildly intense and colorfully stylized smash ‘em up about primal escape, rhythmic violence, and frenetic jazz.
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Mr. Fast
Single-player alternative to 12 is Better Than 6 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with 12 is Better Than 6.
Mr. Fast is a top-down shooting game with a bullet time twist! Enemy's time moves more slowly than yours. You're fast enough and you can kill others with one shot.
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Bullet Noir
Single-player alternative to 12 is Better Than 6 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with 12 is Better Than 6.
In the vengeance business, you leave no loose ends. Four characters scour the city, searching for their mentor's murderer in a brutal ballet of bullets. Stylish neo-noir top-down shooter with one-hit-one-kill mechanics.
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Hotline Miami
Single-player alternative to 12 is Better Than 6 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with 12 is Better Than 6.
Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat.
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Oxenfree
Single-player alternative to 12 is Better Than 6 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with 12 is Better Than 6.
Oxenfree is a supernatural thriller about a group of friends who unwittingly open a ghostly rift. You are Alex, and you’ve just brought your new stepbrother Jonas to an overnight island party gone horribly wrong.
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Stoneshard
Single-player alternative to 12 is Better Than 6 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with 12 is Better Than 6.
Stoneshard is a hardcore turn-based RPG about the harsh life of a medieval mercenary: travel with your own caravan, descend into procedurally generated dungeons, learn new skills, survive hunger and injuries - and remember, every mistake can mean death and loss of progress.
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Stoneshard: Prologue
Single-player alternative to 12 is Better Than 6 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with 12 is Better Than 6.
You come to your senses in a sinister dungeon. The Ritual is about to commence – you have only one chance to escape. Stoneshard: Prologue is a demo to the main game, presenting its basic mechanics.