Single-player games like Paladin
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Paladin, 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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Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter
Single-player alternative to Paladin — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Paladin.
Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter is a visually upgraded and fully Steam supported remake of the original high-adrenaline single-play and 16-player co-operative arcade-action FPS and Gamespot's Game of the Month!
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Hotline Miami
Single-player alternative to Paladin — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Paladin.
Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat.
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Crypt of the NecroDancer
Single-player alternative to Paladin — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Paladin.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
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Nuclear Throne
Single-player alternative to Paladin — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Paladin.
Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?
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Bastion
Single-player alternative to Paladin — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Paladin.
Discover the secrets of the Calamity, a surreal catastrophe that shattered the world to pieces.
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Mark of the Ninja
Single-player alternative to Paladin — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Paladin.
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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Orcs Must Die! 2
Single-player alternative to Paladin — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Paladin.
You’ve tossed, burned and sliced them by the thousands – now orcs must die more than ever before! Grab a friend and slay orcs in untold numbers in this sequel to the 2011 AIAS Strategy Game of the Year from Robot Entertainment.
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Thumper
Single-player alternative to Paladin — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Paladin.
Thumper is rhythm violence: classic rhythm-action, blistering speed, and brutal physicality. You are a space beetle. Brave the hellish void and confront a maniacal giant head from the future.
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Glitchangels
Single-player alternative to Paladin — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Paladin.
Experience the thrill of retro arcade shooter action like never before in the pixel perfect arenas of Glitchangels by Pumpkin Games.