Single-player games like APE OUT
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to APE OUT, 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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Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number
Single-player alternative to APE OUT — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with APE OUT.
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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Bloodroots
Single-player alternative to APE OUT — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with APE OUT.
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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The Hong Kong Massacre
Single-player alternative to APE OUT — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with APE OUT.
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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Bad Business
Single-player alternative to APE OUT — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with APE OUT.
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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Samurai Wish
Single-player alternative to APE OUT — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with APE OUT.
Based on the japanese folklore of the "wish trees", become a member of the Wishmakers' Clan. Defeat your enemies brutally with your katana or your shurikens to fulfill people's dreams.
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Suit for Hire
Single-player alternative to APE OUT — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with APE OUT.
Suit for Hire is a challenging action shooter, tactically blend weapons and martial arts together to unleash beautifully crafted violence.
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Bullet Noir
Single-player alternative to APE OUT — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with APE OUT.
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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One Finger Death Punch 2
Single-player alternative to APE OUT — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with APE OUT.
The world's fastest brawler is back. Experience cinematic kung-fu in the most epic stickman fighter ever made. Staying true to the original, you play with only two buttons. Every press matters, do not button mash!
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CARRION
Single-player alternative to APE OUT — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with APE OUT.
CARRION is a reverse horror game in which you assume the role of an amorphous creature of unknown origins, stalking and consuming those that imprisoned you.
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Hotline Miami
Single-player alternative to APE OUT — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with APE OUT.
Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat.
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Mark of the Ninja
Single-player alternative to APE OUT — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with APE OUT.
In Mark of the Ninja, you'll know what it is to truly be a ninja. You must be silent, agile and clever to outwit your opponents in a world of gorgeous scenery and flowing animation. Marked with cursed tattoos giving you heightened senses, every situation presents you with options.
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Door Kickers
Single-player alternative to APE OUT — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with APE OUT.
Door Kickers is an innovative realtime strategy game that puts you in charge of a SWAT team and lets you command them during a tactical intervention.
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Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines
Single-player alternative to APE OUT — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with APE OUT.
Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines is a real-time tactics game set in World War II that puts you in command of a small squad of elite troopers. Send them behind enemy lines on a series of hazardous missions, and bring them back alive.
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Gunpoint
Single-player alternative to APE OUT — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with APE OUT.
Gunpoint is a stealth puzzle game that lets you rewire its levels to trick people. You play a freelance spy who takes jobs from his clients to break into high security buildings and steal sensitive data.
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Peaky Blinders: Mastermind
Single-player alternative to APE OUT — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with APE OUT.
Peaky Blinders: Mastermind is a puzzle-adventure game, based on the multi-award-winning TV show. Become the Mastermind as you control key characters and pull off perfectly synchronized plans.
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Weird West: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to APE OUT — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with APE OUT.
Survive and unveil the mysteries of the Weird West through the intertwined destinies of its unusual heroes in an Action RPG from the co-creators of Dishonored and Prey.
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Baby Steps
Single-player alternative to APE OUT — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with APE OUT.
Play as Nate, an unemployed failson with nothing going for him, until one day he discovers a power he never knew he had… putting one foot in front of the other.