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Single-player games like Polygon Hero

Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Polygon Hero, 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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    孤胆惊魂3:起源 Fear3:Origins — Steam game cover

    孤胆惊魂3:起源 Fear3:Origins

    Single-player alternative to Polygon Hero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Polygon Hero.

    This is a pixel style puzzle, survival, adventure, survival, horror shooting game, the game perspective using a top view angle, you will control Ling Feng (the protagonist) in the monster attack to survive, and to find the truth.

    2022ActionStrategyIndie2.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Lab 7: Cold Nights — Steam game cover

    Lab 7: Cold Nights

    Single-player alternative to Polygon Hero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Polygon Hero.

    In LAB 7: Cold Nights - wise foresight decides on the outcome of your fate. Wasted coins, reckless use of electricity, and poor time management will lead to your demise. Explore your surroundings, build defenses and fight your way to freedom.

    2020ActionStrategyIndie5.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Delivery from the Pain:Survival / 末日方舟:生存 — Steam game cover

    Delivery from the Pain:Survival / 末日方舟:生存

    Single-player alternative to Polygon Hero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Polygon Hero.

    You'll play as a survivor in a world overrun by zombies. Explore and interact with other survivors, making tough choices about whether to help or exploit them. Defend against zombies, collect resources, craft, and fortify your shelter. Use strategy to escape this world and return to safety.

    2019ActionStrategyIndie4.39 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Culling Of The Cows — Steam game cover

    The Culling Of The Cows

    Single-player alternative to Polygon Hero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Polygon Hero.

    The Culling Of The Cows is a side-scrolling shooter / tower defence game. You will take the role of Sammy, a soliloquizing schizophrenic farmer with a self prophesied mission to lay waste to the disease spreading over his farm.

    2014ActionStrategyIndie4.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Resident Evil 7 Biohazard — Steam game cover

    Resident Evil 7 Biohazard

    Single-player alternative to Polygon Hero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Polygon Hero.

    Fear and isolation seep through the walls of an abandoned southern farmhouse. "7" marks a new beginning for survival horror with the “Isolated View” of the visceral new first-person perspective.

    2017ActionAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Jaws Of Extinction™ — Steam game cover

    Jaws Of Extinction™

    Single-player alternative to Polygon Hero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Polygon Hero.

    The island of Eden-Nadir, has fallen to a vicious mind consuming fungal parasite. Fight through the ashes of humanity to track down the truth behind the infection as one of four playable survivors before the outbreak spreads throughout the world.

    2019ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Infectonator: Survivors — Steam game cover

    Infectonator: Survivors

    Single-player alternative to Polygon Hero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Polygon Hero.

    "Infectonator : Survivors" is a Randomized Permadeath Survival Simulator that combines RTS, Tower Defense, Roguelike, and Management-Simulation gameplay. The goal is to lead a group of survivors in a struggle to stay alive and find rescue in a zombie apocalyptic world.

    2016ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Ultimate Zombie Defense — Steam game cover

    Ultimate Zombie Defense

    Single-player alternative to Polygon Hero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Polygon Hero.

    Team up or face it alone in this top down zombie slaying defense adventure! Featuring up to 4 player online co-op, cleanse the infected wave by wave and upgrade your base with traps & defenses to build the Ultimate Zombie Defense. Can YOU stop them?

    2020ActionStrategyAdventure4.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Don't Feed — Steam game cover

    Don't Feed

    Single-player alternative to Polygon Hero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Polygon Hero.

    "Don't Feed" is inspired by popular "Warcraft3" custom games like "Footman Frenzy" and "Pimp My Peon". Four players fight to the death by commanding armies of upgradable units!

    2017ActionStrategyIndieFreeSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Bullseye — Steam game cover

    Bullseye

    Single-player alternative to Polygon Hero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Polygon Hero.

    What better way to kill time than shooting arrows at a target in the middle of the ocean?

    2018ActionIndieCasualFreeDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Maze And Dagger — Steam game cover

    Maze And Dagger

    Single-player alternative to Polygon Hero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Polygon Hero.

    You are alone. Lost in a maze. Defenseless... One wrong step and you're dead... But there is hope! Find weapons, potions, and armor hidden in the maze to aid you on your quest to find the exit!

    2018ActionIndieCasualFreeSingle-playerSimilar games →