Single-player games like Hardcore Soldier
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Hardcore Soldier, 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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MOONMAN: THE GAME
Single-player alternative to Hardcore Soldier — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hardcore Soldier.
MOON MAN: THE GAME is a 2d platformer shooter. In this game you will find many different worlds and weapons to use. The game is inspired by a certain someone.
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Cyber Pet'Scape : Call of Freedom
Single-player alternative to Hardcore Soldier — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hardcore Soldier.
Cybernetically enhance small vulnerable animals in a pixel art hardcore roguelite platformer, where every jump, every mutation, and every mistake can decide their freedom… or their extinction.
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Lober Lobe
Single-player alternative to Hardcore Soldier — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hardcore Soldier.
Shoot psychic orbs, collect useful thoughts, upgrade your Probe with speed, maneuverability, satellites, resistance and suppress negative thoughts in this Brain centric, procedurally generated bullet hell shoot 'em up.
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Good Person
Single-player alternative to Hardcore Soldier — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hardcore Soldier.
Take on the role of the Good Person in this traditional rogue type game in the form of a 1980s aesthetic platformer. Be a Good Person, suppress heathens and seek validation from others.
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Hellfish
Single-player alternative to Hardcore Soldier — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hardcore Soldier.
Hellfish is a classic side-scrolling shoot 'em up set deep in a corrupted ocean. Battle demonic sea creatures as The Pope using his holy submarine, and customize your righteous weapons in unique ways every time you play.
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Contra: Operation Galuga
Single-player alternative to Hardcore Soldier — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Hardcore Soldier.
The legendary Contra series returns! This reimagining of the classic run-'n'-gun action game from the ‘80s features new stages, new enemies, new play mechanics, and co-op combat for up to 4 players!
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Elsie
Single-player alternative to Hardcore Soldier — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hardcore Soldier.
Elsie is a technicolour, hyperkinetic, rogue-like action-platformer filled with procedurally generated levels, an army of robots to blast through, and a wide scope of items & weaponry to make each run unique. Master countless magitek weapons and abilities in order to embrace the chaos.
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Lilac 0
Single-player alternative to Hardcore Soldier — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hardcore Soldier.
The machine world of Molybdion has fallen into disarray. As Nidhogg eats the root of the planet, unending wars rage on the surface! Slice your way through hordes of metallic foes in five frantic levels, defeat fearsome bosses, and dodge countless bullets in this vintage vertical shoot 'em up.
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First Odium
Single-player alternative to Hardcore Soldier — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A psychological Turn Based Combat RPG Dungeon Crawling Horror
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Crazy Brain
Single-player alternative to Hardcore Soldier — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Hardcore Soldier.
Use perceptive skills and cognition to attempt to gather points, collect an accumulated a score and attempt to exit the stage without failing.
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Happy Mask
Single-player alternative to Hardcore Soldier — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hardcore Soldier.
This is what it feels like to be enslaved by your own mind. Toxic happiness and the brutal reality of a world that cannot be argued away. Step into the backward flipside of a perspective of being mocked and rediculed by blind observers that subscribe to the way of the mob.
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The Knowledge of Hermit
Single-player alternative to Hardcore Soldier — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Hardcore Soldier.
A puzzle solving, dungeon crawling, action adventure, role playing game.
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TVS Sample Box
Single-player alternative to Hardcore Soldier — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Hardcore Soldier.
An evolving app with random surprising updates.
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Drone Break
Single-player alternative to Hardcore Soldier — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hardcore Soldier.
Run and Gun Roguelite where the goal is to upgrade each consecutive alien drone on death so the next can strive to become overpowered enough to escape the all consuming hive mind.
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Dissociative
Single-player alternative to Hardcore Soldier — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hardcore Soldier.
Enter this dark fantasy nightmare adventure game. Spanning a vast unpredictable mindscape of over 2000 unique areas. Answer perplexing questions, gain abilities, power ups and transfer between dark and light worlds in this seemingly endless dreamscape.