Single-player games like Unalive
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Unalive, 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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Astral Ascent
Single-player alternative to Unalive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Unalive.
Choose one of four heroes and explore the Garden, an astral prison guarded by 12 powerful mystical bosses: the Zodiacs. Challenge them with dozens of unique spells and faithful friends by your side to unfold the story of this platform roguelite with lightning fast combat.
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Risk of Rain (2013)
Single-player alternative to Unalive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Unalive.
Risk of Rain is an action platformer with roguelike elements. With permanent death as a primary feature, players will have to play their best to get as far as possible. Fight on a mysterious planet with randomly spawning enemies and bosses, either alone or with 3 friends in online co-op.
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Heat Signature
Single-player alternative to Unalive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Unalive.
Heat Signature is a game from the developers of Gunpoint where you break into spaceships, make terrible mistakes, and think of clever ways out of them. You take a mission, fly to the target ship, sneak inside, and make clever use of your gadgets to distract, ambush and take out the crew.
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Dunjungle
Single-player alternative to Unalive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Unalive.
A 2d action-packed roguelite about a monkey hero protecting the jungle from the rise of a corruptive power. Explore ever-changing dungeons, fight weird enemies and gear up with lots of weapons and relics you can combine for a new experience every run. Explore, fight, die, and repeat!
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Dandy Ace
Single-player alternative to Unalive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Unalive.
Dandy Ace is an over the top action game that follows this fabulous magician seeking to combine and use his magical cards, fighting and looting his way to defeat the Green-Eyed Illusionist and free himself from a cursed mirror.
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Teleglitch: Die More Edition
Single-player alternative to Unalive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Unalive.
In a cold, dark future dominated by mega-corporations, a small lonely planet on the edge of habitable space is the site of a shadowy research facility specializing in necrotic tissue reactivation. You are a scientist who has suddenly awoken to the realization that you are the lone survivor.
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Immortal Redneck
Single-player alternative to Unalive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Unalive.
Immortal Redneck is a FPS set in Egypt with rogue-lite elements. Frantic gameplay, twitch controls and an arcade-style feel meet randomly generated dungeons, a complete skill tree, permanent death and 9 classes with different traits.
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Heavy Bullets
Single-player alternative to Unalive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Unalive.
Heavy Bullets is a randomized FPS dungeon crawler where players make their way through a colorful maze, while protecting themselves from aggressive creatures and malfunctioning security devices. The goal lies at the end of the 8th level, where they must reset the security mainframe to restore order and reap the rewards.
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Rainbow Snake
Single-player alternative to Unalive — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Rainbow snake is a beautiful classic game. Eating food, snake painted in different colors. Collect a colorful snake.
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Funny Truck
Single-player alternative to Unalive — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Throw annoying people out of your truck. Collect points.
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Horror Stories
Single-player alternative to Unalive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Unalive.
How did you imagine how murders are being committed by serial killers? You find yourself in one of these situations, in which you need not to catch the eye of the killer and try to survive by killing him!
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Dissection
Single-player alternative to Unalive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Unalive.
I don’t remember how I got into this house. I only know that I need to quickly find a way out. Something terrible is walking around the house and looking for me.
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Road Bustle
Single-player alternative to Unalive — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
There is a lot of traffic on the roads today.
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Space Intervention
Single-player alternative to Unalive — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Save our galaxy from the invasion of an alien race.
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Alien Destroyer
Single-player alternative to Unalive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Unalive.
Alien robots are attacking.
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The Street 10
Single-player alternative to Unalive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Unalive.
Caught in an infinite alley, look for Street 10 to find your way out.