Single-player games like Septic Savages
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Septic Savages, 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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Rogue Stormers
Single-player alternative to Septic Savages — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Septic Savages.
An action packed platform shooter mashed-up with roguelike and RPG elements, crazy 3D graphics and co-op multiplayer for one to 4 players.
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Bartlow's Dread Machine
Single-player alternative to Septic Savages — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Septic Savages.
An artifact from the past returns in Bartlow's Dread Machine, a game from the dawn of the Electric Age. Dread Machine is a dual stick arcade shooter with single player and couch co-op modes, six scintillating game worlds and a cast of improbable monsters and characters.
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Neon Chrome
Single-player alternative to Septic Savages — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Septic Savages.
A masterful combination of top-down shooter and endless replayability with procedural levels. Blast your way through walls & enemies with guns and cybernetic abilities. Install perks from cyber chambers and upgrade your character stats after each death. Can you stop the Overseer?
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Serious Sam: Tormental
Single-player alternative to Septic Savages — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Septic Savages.
Serious Sam: Tormental is a 3D rogue-lite top-down shooter where you blast your way through the tormented mind of demigod of destruction Mental, as he imagines worlds and monsters that stand on your path towards his inner ego. Let the showdown begin!
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Nex Machina
Single-player alternative to Septic Savages — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Septic Savages.
Nex Machina is an intense arcade style twin-stick shooter from Housemarque. Taking hints from both Robotron and Smash TV, Nex Machina focuses on pure action, voxel destruction and competition in the distant, cablepunk themed future.
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Bleed 2
Single-player alternative to Septic Savages — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Septic Savages.
Bleed 2 is a relentless arcade action game featuring air-dodging, bullet-reflecting, and tons of bosses. Now with randomly-generated levels and daily challenges, too!
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Crimsonland
Single-player alternative to Septic Savages — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Septic Savages.
Thousands of aliens, giant spiders, mutant lizards, and more are on the attack - can you survive the onslaught? Crimsonland is a top-down shooter with a touch of RPG. Unlock over 30 weapons and over 50 perks from quirky to brutal. Complete the quest and show your skills in five survival modes.
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Patch Quest
Single-player alternative to Septic Savages — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Septic Savages.
In a labyrinth surrounded by vicious monsters, Explorers must rely on their Lasso to survive! Capture and tame ANY monster to leap, glide, surf, tunnel and websling through a treacherous, patchwork maze. This roguelike/metroidvania seems cute, but it’s a deceptively difficult bullet-hell challenge!
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Super Mega Bob
Single-player alternative to Septic Savages — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Septic Savages.
Bob's world has been invaded by mechanical demons from the nether! SEND THEM BACK TO WHERE THEY CAME FROM! . . . by shooting at them like a madman, of course!
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The Grimsworth Reports: Woodfall
Single-player alternative to Septic Savages — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Septic Savages.
Chuck Grimsworth receives a frantic call from the sheriff of a small town called Woodfall. There he discovers an eccentric community with skeletons hiding in every closet. Only Chuck can solve and unearth the ancient conflict which plagues Woodfall!