Single-player games like RAD
Below are 18 single-player Steam games similar to RAD, 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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Freaky Awesome
Single-player alternative to RAD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with RAD.
Freaky Awesome is a hectic action rogue-lite. You explore a randomly generated old factory, fighting weird monsters and avoiding traps. Toxic wastes will make you mutate, gaining different powers every time. You will need to adapt to your mutations to survive!
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WASTED
Single-player alternative to RAD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with RAD.
Get wasted or get wasted trying in WASTED, a roguelike post-apocalyptic pub crawler. Fight tooth and nail, bullets and baseball bats in search of Booze, gain strange mutational Hangovers, and explore the Coolers in search of powerful weapons, armor, and a nice stiff drink to top it all off.
- 3
Nuclear Throne
Single-player alternative to RAD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with RAD.
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?
- 4
Immortal Redneck
Single-player alternative to RAD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with RAD.
Immortal Redneck is a FPS set in Egypt with rogue-lite elements. Frantic gameplay, twitch controls and an arcade-style feel meet randomly generated dungeons, a complete skill tree, permanent death and 9 classes with different traits.
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Fallback
Single-player alternative to RAD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with RAD.
Lead the rebellion in an epic rogue-like adventure. Guide your jet-pack equipped post-apocalyptic volunteers through a labyrinthine underground complex by jumping, dodging, and battling against robot minions (and masters) to get to the surface — and bring life back to the scorched Earth.
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Tower of Guns
Single-player alternative to RAD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with RAD.
Tower of Guns is a fast paced first-person-shooter for the twitch gamer... with a few randomized elements to keep it fresh with each playthrough. It's a short burst "Lunch Break FPS"... not unlike Binding of Isaac mixed with Doom 2. Tower of Guns was made by a guy named Joe (with his brother Mike composing the music).
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Black Future '88
Single-player alternative to RAD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with RAD.
Black Future ’88 is a Synth-Punk roguelike 2D action Shooter. Vertically climb an always evolving procedural tower to reach the top and kill its insane owner…before your heart explodes. Shoot, slash, dash and upgrade yourself to survive the endless waves of Homicidal AI, Traps & Colossal Wardens.
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Leap of Fate
Single-player alternative to RAD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with RAD.
Leap of Fate is a furiously-paced cyberpunk roguelite about overcoming your fears and achieving your fate. In a New York City where magic is real, you play as a technomage who must develop unspeakable powers to confront the Crucible of Fates. Can you survive the trials?
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Bastion
Single-player alternative to RAD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with RAD.
Discover the secrets of the Calamity, a surreal catastrophe that shattered the world to pieces.
- 10
Dead Cells
Single-player alternative to RAD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with RAD.
Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.
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Psychonauts
Single-player alternative to RAD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with RAD.
A Psychic Odyssey Through the Minds of Misfits, Monsters, and Madmen. This classic action/adventure platformer from acclaimed developers Double Fine Productions follows the story of a young psychic named Razputin.
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Psychonauts 2
Single-player alternative to RAD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with RAD.
Combining quirky missions and mysterious conspiracies, Psychonauts 2 is a platform-adventure game with cinematic style and tons of customizable psychic powers.
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Brutal Legend
Single-player alternative to RAD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with RAD.
Brütal Legend is an action-adventure that marries visceral action combat with open-world freedom. Set in a universe somewhere between Lord of the Rings and Spinal Tap, it’s a fresh take on the action/driving genre, which in this case is full of imitation cover bands, demons intent on enslaving humanity and Heavy metal tunes.
- 14
Grim Fandango Remastered
Single-player alternative to RAD — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
One of the most acclaimed adventure games of all time is now back, better than ever. Grim Fandango Remastered has the all the beautiful art and engaging story fans remember, but has also been remastered to look, sound, and control even better than the award-winning original release.
- 15
Broken Age
Single-player alternative to RAD — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A family friendly, hand-animated, puzzle-filled adventure game with an all-star cast, including Elijah Wood, Jack Black and Masasa Moyo. Funded by a record breaking crowdfunding campaign and designed by industry legend Tim Schafer, Broken Age is a timeless coming-of-age story.
- 16
Day of the Tentacle Remastered
Single-player alternative to RAD — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Originally released by LucasArts in 1993 as a sequel to Ron Gilbert’s ground breaking Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle is back in a remastered edition that features all new hand-drawn, high resolution artwork, with remastered audio, music and sound effects.
- 17
Spacebase DF-9
Single-player alternative to RAD — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
In Spacebase DF-9, you'll build a home among the stars for a motley population of humans and aliens as they go about their daily lives. Mine asteroids, discover derelicts, and deal with the tribulations of galactic resettlement in Earth's distant future.
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Costume Quest
Single-player alternative to RAD — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A Halloween adventure from Tim Schafer's Double Fine Productions.