Single-player games like Negative Time
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Negative Time, 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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Wild Island
Single-player alternative to Negative Time — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Negative Time.
You are stranded on a mysterious island, trying to escape. A sandbox where you stack items, craft synergies, and turn simple weapons into pure power. Experiment with runes, accessories, and pets. Discover the island’s mysteries and rebuild your sanctuary to uncover what the island truly wants.
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Fast Food Wars
Single-player alternative to Negative Time — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Negative Time.
Fast Food Wars is a bullet-hell shoot'em up rogue-lite game in a procedural generated restaurant with random power ups, weapons. You play as a burger fighting to claim back all the invaded burger restaurant from other fast foods
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NINE ROUNDS RAPID
Single-player alternative to Negative Time — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Negative Time.
Blast your way to freedom, solo or with a friend in online or local co-op, through a possessed, fragmenting space station. Upgrade abilities, mod your weapon builds, and manipulate time to defeat the station's nine gatekeepers. Power up, progress, and learn the ugly truth with every escape attempt.
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You Are Circle
Single-player alternative to Negative Time — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Negative Time.
You are a circle in a sharp world. Fight jagged enemies in a neon twin-stick bullet-hell roguelite, build devastating ability combos, and grow from fragile to unstoppable through shifting neon labyrinths.
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Grid Demon
Single-player alternative to Negative Time — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Negative Time.
Turn a cyberpunk machine swarm against itself in a fast top-down bullet-heaven roguelite. Hack enemies into temporary allies, install run-changing Neural Patches, unleash your Grid Demon and break the Wardens guarding each deeper grid.
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Gunblade Ranger
Single-player alternative to Negative Time — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Negative Time.
An action shooting Roguelite focused on relentless attacks and brutal executions. Fight through the wasteland, execute enemies to restore ammo, collect weapons and mutations, and create your own killing build. Local 2 player co-op supported.
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Another Castle
Single-player alternative to Negative Time — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Negative Time.
Sick of playing the "Damsel in Distress" Princess Peta ventures into an ever-changing Castle filled with gun wielding cult members, mysterious secrets and a whole heap of items to help boost her firepower. Another Castle is a fast-paced, challenging dungeon-crawling roguelike shooter.
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(TwwwT) The Witches Who Weave Timelines
Single-player alternative to Negative Time — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Negative Time.
A 2D action-focused roguelite where you control “witches from history,” battling endless enemies and dense bullet-hell barrages to correct fractured timelines