Single-player games like Animal Rivals
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Animal Rivals, 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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Smells Like Burnt Rubber
Single-player alternative to Animal Rivals — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Animal Rivals.
Get ready for a fast-paced, adrenaline-fueled racing experience with Smells Like Burnt Rubber. Choose your car, customize it, and hit the track in this intense arcade-style game. Play with up to 4 friends in Splitscreen or join the Online Multiplayer. Are you ready to burn some rubber?
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Super Grav
Single-player alternative to Animal Rivals — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Animal Rivals.
Super Grav is a retro gravity cave flyer for 1-4 players, featuring single player or co-op multiplayer missions, racing and dogfighting. Back by popular demand, Super Grav is the official sequel to the 1998 Net Yaroze coverdisc hit, Gravitation.
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Overcooked
Single-player alternative to Animal Rivals — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Animal Rivals.
Overcooked is a chaotic couch co-op cooking game for one to four players. Working as a team, you and your fellow chefs must prepare, cook and serve up a variety of tasty orders before the baying customers storm out in a huff.
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Jamestown
Single-player alternative to Animal Rivals — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Animal Rivals.
Jamestown: Legend Of The Lost Colony is a neo-classical top-down shooter for up to 4 players, set on 17th-century British Colonial Mars. It features all the intensity, depth, and lovingly handcrafted pixels of a classic arcade shooter, with a modern twist: deeply-integrated cooperative gameplay.
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Bloody Trapland 2: Curiosity
Single-player alternative to Animal Rivals — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Animal Rivals.
Take on the hard yet fair world of Bloody Trapland. Jump, slide, dash and dodge your way through the many deadly levels. Find secrets, solve puzzles, unlock mysteries and unravel the story. Go at it alone or bring your friends along for a co-op experience like no other. 1-4 players online and/or splitscreen.
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ThunderWheels
Single-player alternative to Animal Rivals — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Animal Rivals.
ThunderWheels is a retro racing game with a classic top-down racing perspective plus third and first person view, realistic physics and really fun circuits full of 80's nostalgia.
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Levelhead
Single-player alternative to Animal Rivals — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Animal Rivals.
Deliver those goods, real good - or get turned into scrap trying! Chaotic co-op platforming, genre-bending power-ups, a challenging campaign, and endless community-built levels await, so grab a friend and GO!
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Super Hydorah
Single-player alternative to Animal Rivals — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Animal Rivals.
Super Hydorah is a nonlinear horizontal shoot’ em up designed to offer a challenging experience, sublimating the richness of traditional shmup classics. Face the menace of the Meroptians aboard the Delta Lance, alone or with your friends in this game with direct action and nostalgic art.
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Car Demolition Clicker
Single-player alternative to Animal Rivals — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Animal Rivals.
Ever dreamed of smashing your own car? Or maybe a car of your neighbour? Well... now you have a chance! Grab your weapon, call out your battle drones and start clicking the car into oblivion! Earn cash, upgrade your equipment and find more vehicles to destroy!
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Skinny & Franko: Fists of Violence
Single-player alternative to Animal Rivals — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Animal Rivals.
Brutal next chapter of Amiga's legendary beat'em up 'Franko: The Crazy Revenge' is here. It's time to clean the streets of shit. The iconic game finally gets a sequel it deserves. Are you ready? They are coming!
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Go All Out
Single-player alternative to Animal Rivals — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Animal Rivals.
Yandere-Chan, Teslakid, Cole Black, Breakbone and more crossover characters in one fighting game! Be the last man standing in this intense and action packed platform fighter.
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Glaive: Brick Breaker
Single-player alternative to Animal Rivals — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Animal Rivals.
Rockets. Explosions. Neons. Blasters. Glaive: Brick Breaker is a classic and popular arkanoid-type game with beautiful 3D graphics. Many power-ups, tons of different stages and dynamic gameplay. Different game modes and boss fights.
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Tiny Hands Adventure
Single-player alternative to Animal Rivals — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Animal Rivals.
Join young t-rex Borti on his quest to find the best replacement for his tiny hands and arms. Explore several unknown worlds, find all the collectables and face bosses that will try to stop you. The adventure starts now!
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Assault On Metaltron
Single-player alternative to Animal Rivals — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Animal Rivals.
Get ready to defend your metallic planet from human and orc invaders in this intense, challenging and addictive action tower defense game! Play solo or in cooperation on one pc!
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Hex Kingdoms
Single-player alternative to Animal Rivals — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Animal Rivals.
Hex Kingdoms is a turn-based strategy game set in medevial times with fantasy themes. Expand your kingdom, set up your defenses, train soldiers and monsters to become the only ruler of the land.
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Ultimate Ski Jumping 2020
Single-player alternative to Animal Rivals — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Animal Rivals.
Winter competitions, summer competitions and even jumping on the Moon! Trainings, qualification rounds and tournaments are all waiting for you! Play the way you like!