Single-player games like Nanobots
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Nanobots, 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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The Revenant Prince
Single-player alternative to Nanobots — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Nanobots.
After gaining the ability to control time, Troy sets off on an adventure, guided by a mysterious voice in an attempt to fulfill his long-time - potentially misleading destiny: saving the world! Kill or show mercy, the choice is yours. Your actions lead to certain consequences and outcomes that cannot be undone!
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Octogeddon
Single-player alternative to Nanobots — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Nanobots.
You ARE Octogeddon, a massive mutant octopus with one mission: DESTROY the world! Grow more tentacles and evolve each of them into deadlier and deadlier weapons until you become the ultimate eight-legged killing machine!
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Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine
Single-player alternative to Nanobots — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Nanobots.
Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine is a single player or co-op heist game. Assemble a crack team of thieves, case the joint, and pull off the perfect heist.
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Plebby Quest: The Crusades
Single-player alternative to Nanobots — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Nanobots.
Survive ambitious rulers dreaming of an empire, outsmart treacherous neighbors longing to burn your spoils, and navigate the religion’s predictably unreasonable demands; you need ask only one question as you build your legacy – “Will you burn them, or be burnt?”
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Tooth and Tail
Single-player alternative to Nanobots — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Nanobots.
Lead the revolution with an army of flamethrowing Boars, mustard gas-lobbing Skunks, and paratrooper-puking Owls. Tooth and Tail is a Real-Time-Strategy game featuring Single Player, Online Competitive Play, Split Screen, Replays, and more. Build a base, lead your army, eat your enemies!
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Tumblestone
Single-player alternative to Nanobots — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Nanobots.
Tumblestone is the first original action-puzzle game of the past fifteen years -- completely reinventing the genre into a deep and cerebral puzzle solving experience that you won't forget.
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Sanctum
Single-player alternative to Nanobots — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Nanobots.
You think Tower Defense games are all about building? You thought wrong. Sanctum is not your average Tower Defense title. When the havoc starts, you get to join the fray! As one of the world’s first First Person Shooter - Tower Defense games, Sanctum has taken the best of both worlds to deliver an epic, one-of-a-kind experience.
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You Must Build A Boat
Single-player alternative to Nanobots — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Nanobots.
You Must Build A Boat is the sequel to the award winning "10000000". Travel the world, run procedurally generated dungeons finding artifacts, capturing monsters and recruiting crew for your boat
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Rogue Waves
Single-player alternative to Nanobots — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nanobots.
A physics-based game about building war ships, with a narrative that progresses through a variety of quests while unlocking new technologies. Also features a sandbox mode, with fully controllable elements and resources.