Single-player games like Deadly Traps
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Deadly Traps, 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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Bookbound Brigade
Single-player alternative to Deadly Traps — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly Traps.
Bookbound Brigade is about beating the hell out of historical and literary characters you studied in school by leading a dream team of real and fictional heroes through a 2D side-scrolling platform-adventure.
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Downwell
Single-player alternative to Deadly Traps — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly Traps.
Downwell is a curious game about a young person venturing down a well in search of untold treasures with only his Gunboots to protect him.
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Pukan Bye Bye
Single-player alternative to Deadly Traps — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly Traps.
Created to enrage.
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Risk of Rain (2013)
Single-player alternative to Deadly Traps — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly Traps.
Risk of Rain is an action platformer with roguelike elements. With permanent death as a primary feature, players will have to play their best to get as far as possible. Fight on a mysterious planet with randomly spawning enemies and bosses, either alone or with 3 friends in online co-op.
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Cave Story+
Single-player alternative to Deadly Traps — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly Traps.
Run, jump, shoot, fly and explore your way through a massive action-adventure reminiscent of classic 8- and 16-bit games.
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Valdis Story: Abyssal City
Single-player alternative to Deadly Traps — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly Traps.
Assume the role of Wyatt in this Action/Exploration Platformer as you explore the ruins of a holy city that was lost many years ago. Battle various types of demons, angels, and a new threat known only as the “Ferals”, using swordsmanship, martial arts, and sorcery.
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Intrusion 2
Single-player alternative to Deadly Traps — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly Traps.
"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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Castle In The Darkness
Single-player alternative to Deadly Traps — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly Traps.
Castle In The Darkness is a fun and challenging shout out to the early days of video games! It's an action exploration platformer with some RPG elements, much like games from the Castlevania or Metroid series. It's super fast-paced, challenging, and full of secrets!
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Fallen
Single-player alternative to Deadly Traps — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly Traps.
Story of a Father who is in search of his son who has fallen in a cave. You play as Father and fight with monsters,ghosts and deadly animals to save your son. This game has also local multiplayer which can be played upto four players.
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Lost In Dungeon
Single-player alternative to Deadly Traps — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly Traps.
Lost In Dungeon is a randomly generated action shooter with Rogue-like elements. Players will find bizarre treasures, Upgrade weapons and fight off droves of mysterious creatures.
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The Curse of Zigoris
Single-player alternative to Deadly Traps — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly Traps.
The Curse Of Zigoris is an action adventure pixel art platformer game with a story about a girl who tries to lift the curse from her village.
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Deceased
Single-player alternative to Deadly Traps — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly Traps.
Deceased is set entirely in and around a mansion presented in first-person, free-roaming 3D. You will need to "pick up key elements, and search for things that may help you escape.
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Dead No-Head
Single-player alternative to Deadly Traps — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly Traps.
Dead No-Head is a third person action adventure story rich game in which Norix is brought back from the dead, with... No head! This headless hero will have quite the unexpected journey ahead of him.
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Red Glare
Single-player alternative to Deadly Traps — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly Traps.
Red Glare is a WW2 real-time tactics game where you play agents of the OSS, the precursor to the CIA, combating a secret German expedition in South America. With five well balanced characters and a story campaign playing out across a continent.
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Relicbound
Single-player alternative to Deadly Traps — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadly Traps.
Relicbound is a TPS story rich action adventure game where you play as Jackson an archeologist abducted by a sinister organization to help them find a precious relic which can manipulate the time.