Single-player games like Nova Survivors
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Nova Survivors, 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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Deepforge Brawl
Single-player alternative to Nova Survivors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nova Survivors.
Deepforge Brawl is a dwarven arena roguelite where your weapons fire themselves — you just have to survive. Charge your beard, chug your ale, and dash through goblin hordes across six depths of the mountain. Forge builds from 13 auto-firing weapons, evolve them, and descend until the Maw takes you.
- 2
Neon Armada - Solar Storm
Single-player alternative to Nova Survivors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Nova Survivors.
A top-down arena roguelite you can learn in one wave and spend a hundred hours mastering. Waves close in from every edge; the shop between them decides what you become. 32 ships, 28 weapons, 115 mods to combine — then endless mode, where the caps come off.
- 3
Gnomekeeper
Single-player alternative to Nova Survivors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nova Survivors.
Gnomekeeper is a cozy-weird bullet-heaven roguelite. You’re one garden gnome, the sun has quit, and everything in the garden wants you gone. Fend off the swarm, cobble together a ridiculous build, and see if you make it to morning.
- 4
Space Show edition 17
Single-player alternative to Nova Survivors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nova Survivors.
Space Show is an explosive space shoot’em up blending fast-paced arcade action with roguelite progression. Destroy waves of asteroids, battle enemy fleets, and defend Earth in an endless war where only survival… and glory matter!
- 5
Super Robot Survivors
Single-player alternative to Nova Survivors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nova Survivors.
From the Creative Director of Destroy All Humans! 2 and co-creator of the original TY the Tasmanian Tiger comes a chaotic bullet heaven with objectives. Rescue astronauts, repair reactors, and hack terminals while dodging hundreds of enemies in high-stakes, 10-minute showdowns.
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Giant Enemy Robot Crabs
Single-player alternative to Nova Survivors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nova Survivors.
Crush the countless crabs while blasting your way through the cancer zone!
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Nova Drift
Single-player alternative to Nova Survivors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nova Survivors.
Nova Drift distills the mechanical depth and strategy of an ARPG into classic arcade space combat. Control an endlessly evolving bio-mechanical ship, face legions of strange and deadly foes, and ride the wake of a dying star across the void.
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ODDCORE
Single-player alternative to Nova Survivors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nova Survivors.
You have only 5 minutes to stylishly explode your way through the hordes of corrupted entities in a retro FPS, roguelike liminal-nightmare... and Timmee is here to help!