Single-player games like RICO
Below are 19 single-player Steam games similar to RICO, 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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Police Stories
Single-player alternative to RICO — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with RICO.
A fresh take on top-down shooters with an emphasis on tactics that forces you to make split second decisions. Neutralize criminals, rescue civilians and defuse bombs in Single Player mode or Co-op. And remember - shooting first is not an option!
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Destropolis
Single-player alternative to RICO — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with RICO.
Destropolis is a top-down shooter game with a fully destructible environment, hundreds of enemies and nuclear explosions. Fight a countless swarm of enemies. Tear them to pieces with bullets, lasers and explosions. Destroy as many of them as you can before they overwhelm you...
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MOTHERGUNSHIP
Single-player alternative to RICO — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with RICO.
MOTHERGUNSHIP is a bullet-hell FPS where you craft your own guns, fight gigantic bosses, and defeat a robotic alien armada that conquered Earth. Face off against overwhelming odds in brutal, non-stop combats where thinking on your feet is the only way to survive.
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30XX
Single-player alternative to RICO — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with RICO.
Jump, shoot, and slash your way through 30XX, the roguelike action platformer you can play with a friend! Explore lush, ever-changing worlds that mix precise platforming with fevered combat. Destroy fearsome Guardians. Master unique Powers. Rediscover the thousand years we've lost.
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Kill to Collect
Single-player alternative to RICO — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with RICO.
Welcome to the last city on Earth. Earn your keep and die trying in Pieces Interactive’s cyberpunk action rogue-like, featuring 1-4 player co-op. Travel down the sleepless cesspool of murderous vagrants and cybernetic freaks, as you slice and dice your way to the lower levels of Geoshelter Alpha.
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Roboquest
Single-player alternative to RICO — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with RICO.
Roboquest is a fast FPS Roguelite in a scorched futureworld. You're a rebooted Guardian, ready to kick some metal ass! Fight with your buddy or by yourself and annihilate hordes of deadly bots in ever-changing environments.
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I Hate Running Backwards
Single-player alternative to RICO — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with RICO.
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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Vertical Drop Heroes HD
Single-player alternative to RICO — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with RICO.
Vertical Drop Heroes is a procedural platformer RPG hybrid with roguelike elements, where your hero adventures through randomly generated stages. Armed with a variety of skills and traits, you must use your cunning and reflexes to survive the dangers of each stage.
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Max Payne
Single-player alternative to RICO — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with RICO.
Max Payne is a man with nothing to lose in the violent, cold urban night. A fugitive undercover cop framed for murder, hunted by cops and the mob, Max is a man with his back against the wall, fighting a battle he cannot hope to win. Prepare for pain…
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Hotline Miami
Single-player alternative to RICO — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with RICO.
Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat.
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Slay the Spire
Single-player alternative to RICO — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with RICO.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
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XIII
Single-player alternative to RICO — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with RICO.
You play as “XIII”, a man without an identity, in a solo campaign with numerous twists and turns. Inspired by the eponymous graphic novel, the game features a completely reinvented and unique cel-shading design. In XIII, players can also take part in fierce multi-player fights.
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Call of Duty®
Single-player alternative to RICO — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with RICO.
The Call of Duty® experience supports Call of Duty®: Black Ops 7, Call of Duty®: Black Ops 6, and Call of Duty®: Warzone™.
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Fights in Tight Spaces
Single-player alternative to RICO — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with RICO.
A stylish blend of deck-building, turn-based tactics, and thrilling animated fight sequences in classic action-movie settings. Learn to balance your hand, momentum, and positioning to overcome the odds to defeat your adversaries. Build your deck, control the space and live to fight another day.
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Knights in Tight Spaces
Single-player alternative to RICO — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with RICO.
Control your environment, gather your party, and build your best deck to overcome outlaws and supernatural forces, across a rich fantasy world. Watch as your tactical choices and deckbuilding prowess play out through stylish fight sequences.
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SkyScrappers
Single-player alternative to RICO — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with RICO.
CO-OP ARCADE FIGHTER-CLIMBER. Run, jump, and fight your way to the top of a collapsing building. Compete with up to three of your friends in this 90s style competitive platform brawler.
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RICO: London
Single-player alternative to RICO — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with RICO.
RICO London is a gang-busting, name-taking, explosive co-op shooter. Battle your way up the high-rise tower stacked with East End gangsters solo or with a partner. Crash through doors, dodge bullets and turn the weapons of the fallen into your personal arsenal. Do whatever it takes reach the top.
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Fights in Tight Spaces (Prologue)
Single-player alternative to RICO — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with RICO.
Play the first mission of Fights in Tight Spaces for free! A stylish blend of deck-building, turn-based tactics, and thrilling fight sequences in action-movie settings. Learn to balance your hand, momentum, and positioning to overcome the odds to defeat your adversaries. Full game OUT NOW.
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2 Fights in 2 Tight Spaces
Single-player alternative to RICO — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with RICO.
Agent 11 is back. The iconic tactical deck-builder returns, with new tricks up its impeccably tailored sleeves… and this time it’s with friends. Improvise within the space, adapt your deck to the challenges ahead, and overcome a roster of new enemies in stylish, animated, fight sequences.