Single-player games like Ghosts and Monsters
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Ghosts and Monsters, 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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Dungeon Killer
Single-player alternative to Ghosts and Monsters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ghosts and Monsters.
Dungeon Killer is a fast-paced boss rush shoot ’em up where you play as Astrid, a woman determined to bargain with the goddess of death herself to resurrect her husband. Armed with a minigun, you’ll descend into a hellish dungeon and face deadly, disturbing female enemies.
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Super Station Swarm
Single-player alternative to Ghosts and Monsters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ghosts and Monsters.
A space station, infinite waves, and a screen full of vector geometry trying to kill you. Your turrets auto-fire. Your satellites orbit. This is bullet-hell-yeah. In-game and permanent upgrades. 17 upgrade types across 9 weapon classes. Play, upgrade, repeat.
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Hook and Gun
Single-player alternative to Ghosts and Monsters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Ghosts and Monsters.
A fast-paced 2D top-down action roguelike set in a rising industrial elevator. Use your grappling hook to snatch, corrupt, and turn enemy weapons against them. Battle through relentless waves of security robots, harvest scrap to unlock powerful upgrades and survive the ascent to escape the facility.
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DARK DANCE
Single-player alternative to Ghosts and Monsters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ghosts and Monsters.
DARK DANCE: A Spectacular Bullet Hell Party! Surrender yourself to the intense beats and experience the perfect harmony of automated convenience and manual precision. Strategic builds and dazzling action await you in this fantastic world.
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Psycho Ripper
Single-player alternative to Ghosts and Monsters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ghosts and Monsters.
Psycho Ripper is a top down action shooter with modified conditional formations. Explore a randomization of challenges as you blast through a sentient crystal mine, confronting progressively baneful threats and equip unusual armaments, as you speculate further through a grand and unknown chaos.
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Rogue Survivors
Single-player alternative to Ghosts and Monsters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ghosts and Monsters.
Rogue Survivor is a casual top-down shooter game where you try to survive as long as enemy waves finishes. Choose different heroes and different skills to make better builds.
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Bulletmancer
Single-player alternative to Ghosts and Monsters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ghosts and Monsters.
In this horde survival roguelite you don't move, but you do shoot! Choose a wizard to wield the Arcane Turret, combine different bullet spells and survive until the final boss comes to face you.
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Warp Commander
Single-player alternative to Ghosts and Monsters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Ghosts and Monsters.
A top-down 2D arena shooter in the style of a retro arcade game. The player fights against waves of enemy spaceships to defend space as we know it.