Single-player games like Zombotron
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Zombotron, 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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Rebel Core: Awakens
Single-player alternative to Zombotron — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zombotron.
AWAKEN REBEL, AS YOUR CIRCUITS WEEP FOR THE DEAD. Jump, shoot, slash, and shield your way through the 8 Core Robotics and defeat them all to reach the Council of machines that has conquered humanity. Go on a journey of retribution in this sci-fi action platformer that honors the classics.
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Guinea Pig Gunner
Single-player alternative to Zombotron — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Zombotron.
Play as a cyborg guinea pig armed with a throwable teleporter in a fast 2D run-and-gun. Blink through walls, telefrag enemies, chain acrobatic movement, and tear through an arsenal of weapons to stop a reptilian invasion.
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Alien Colony
Single-player alternative to Zombotron — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zombotron.
Lead a squad of four cloned marines through an infected mining colony where every death creates a new soldier, but slowly destroys what remains of your humanity.
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Guns, Gore and Cannoli 2
Single-player alternative to Zombotron — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Zombotron.
Guns, Gore & Cannoli 2 revives the good, old, action platform run & gun genre, but this time with a bunch of humor and buckets of blown off body parts. In this sequel to Guns, Gore & Cannoli, Vinnie Cannoli’s story continues and this time it’s personal.
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Intrusion 2
Single-player alternative to Zombotron — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zombotron.
"This is some of the most fun I've had with a game so far this year, and it will go down as one of the best side-scrolling shooters of all time." - 9/10, Destructoid
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Guns, Gore & Cannoli
Single-player alternative to Zombotron — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zombotron.
Guns, Gore & Cannoli - An over-the-top, comical and fast-paced action game with hand-drawn graphics set in the Roaring Twenties. An all-you-can-shoot fest where you embody Vinnie, a mobster with a mission in a city controlled by gangsters and plagued by zombies. Featuring up to 4-man local co-op.
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Kero Blaster
Single-player alternative to Zombotron — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zombotron.
C&F Inc. teleporters are going offline all over the place, and it's up to an intrepid frog employee to fix the situation.
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Super Time Force Ultra
Single-player alternative to Zombotron — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zombotron.
Super Time Force Ultra is an insane platformer filled with robots and dinosaurs and fun and time travel... sometimes all at the same time!
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My Friend Pedro
Single-player alternative to Zombotron — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zombotron.
My Friend Pedro is a violent ballet about friendship, imagination, and one man’s struggle to obliterate anyone in his path at the behest of a sentient banana.
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Strike Force Heroes
Single-player alternative to Zombotron — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zombotron.
Strike Force Heroes is an oldschool arena shooter rebuilt with modern mechanics with full co-operative and PvP online multiplayer. It melds over the top action with epic story-telling in this intense remake of the hit Flash game.
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Earn to Die 2
Single-player alternative to Zombotron — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zombotron.
Earn to Die 2 is a 2D side-scrolling driving and upgrade game where you steer vehicles through a zombie apocalypse, literally smashing through zombie hordes along the way. Throughout the game you will unlock new vehicles, upgrading them into the ultimate zombie-smashing machines!
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Fireboy & Watergirl: Elements
Single-player alternative to Zombotron — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Zombotron.
Help Fireboy and Watergirl explore the 7 Elemental temples!
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The Last Stand: Aftermath
Single-player alternative to Zombotron — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zombotron.
From the creators of The Last Stand: Union City and Dead Zone comes an all-new singleplayer rogue-lite action adventure. After you become infected by the zombie virus, you set out to explore the post-apocalypse and find hope for your fellow survivors. You can still make a difference. Don't give up.
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Decision Legacy Collection
Single-player alternative to Zombotron — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zombotron.
All the games in the classic Decision series bundled together. From the zombie-ravaged streets of the original Decision to the brutal medieval battlegrounds of Decision Medieval, this collection delivers the raw, blood-soaked combat, base building, and survival gameplay that hooked Flash game fans.
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The Last Stand
Single-player alternative to Zombotron — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zombotron.
A game about taking your last stand against a wave of enemies coming towards you