Single-player games like Serious Sam: Tormental
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Serious Sam: Tormental, 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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I Hate Running Backwards
Single-player alternative to Serious Sam: Tormental — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam: Tormental.
I Hate Running Backwards is a never-ending adrenaline packed shoot'em down roguelite that puts the emphasis on destruction and fighting never ending waves of enemies while time traveling through procedurally generated worlds!
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Mystic Gate
Single-player alternative to Serious Sam: Tormental — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam: Tormental.
A Mystic Gate created by the gods suddenly appears in the human world. Adventurers challenge themselves with the tests that await them beyond the gate. In order to earn your wish you must defeat hordes & bosses in this roguelike dungeon exploration bullet hell!!
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Serious Sam's Bogus Detour
Single-player alternative to Serious Sam: Tormental — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam: Tormental.
Serious Sam’s Bogus Detour is an all-new action-adventure in the legendary Serious Sam saga from Hammerwatch developer Crackshell.
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Nuclear Throne
Single-player alternative to Serious Sam: Tormental — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam: Tormental.
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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Blazing Beaks
Single-player alternative to Serious Sam: Tormental — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam: Tormental.
Roguelite - where too much greediness can be fatal. A colorful world with armed birds blazing their way through piles of mutants, monsters and creepy creatures. Lots of mysteries to unravel, secrets to discover and levels to explore.
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Greedland
Single-player alternative to Serious Sam: Tormental — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam: Tormental.
"Greedland” is a roguelike game mixed with survivor-like elements. It's reminiscent of Crimsonland and Vampire Survivors, and as the battle progresses your character will become a mobile arsenal of destruction!
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Woodpunk
Single-player alternative to Serious Sam: Tormental — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam: Tormental.
Woodpunk is an exhilarating roguelike bullet hell retro pixel art shooter in a medieval Woodpunk universe, where the primary energy resource is WOOD.
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Shape Shifter: Formations
Single-player alternative to Serious Sam: Tormental — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Serious Sam: Tormental.
Shape Shifter: Formations is an action twin-stick shooter with rogue-lite elements, where you must destroy hordes of geometric enemies alone or with a friend. Select your ship and combine a large variety of weapons, abilities and infinitely stacking upgrades to craft your own unique build.
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The Binding of Isaac
Single-player alternative to Serious Sam: Tormental — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam: Tormental.
Now 20% More Evil with the Free Halloween update!
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Serious Sam 3: BFE
Single-player alternative to Serious Sam: Tormental — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam: Tormental.
Serious Sam 3: BFE is a prequel to the original indie fast action FPS and Game of the Year sensation - Serious Sam: The First Encounter!
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Hades
Single-player alternative to Serious Sam: Tormental — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam: Tormental.
Defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash out of the Underworld in this rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre.