Single-player games like The Rare Nine
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to The Rare Nine, 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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Final Exam
Single-player alternative to The Rare Nine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Rare Nine.
Jump into the frenzied action and the whacky humor of a pure 2.5D side-scroller! While they were going to their old high school for what was supposed to be the party of their life, four long-time friends end up in a ghost town full of monstrous creatures.
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Blood Harvest 3
Single-player alternative to The Rare Nine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Rare Nine.
Dynamic, hardcore and explosive action on the passage with a bunch of weapons, enemies and bosses.
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My Friend Pedro
Single-player alternative to The Rare Nine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Rare Nine.
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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Wulverblade
Single-player alternative to The Rare Nine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Rare Nine.
Defeat the Ninth Legion of the Roman army in this side-scrolling, arcade-inspired beat 'em up set in Roman-era Britain.
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APE OUT
Single-player alternative to The Rare Nine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Rare Nine.
APE OUT is a wildly intense and colorfully stylized smash ‘em up about primal escape, rhythmic violence, and frenetic jazz.
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Iron Snout
Single-player alternative to The Rare Nine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Rare Nine.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
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Gravity Circuit
Single-player alternative to The Rare Nine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Rare Nine.
Gravity Circuit is a flashy action packed 2D platformer in the spirit of console classics. Follow Kai, a lone operative war hero who harnesses the mysterious powers of the Gravity Circuit, on an adventure in a futuristic world inhabited by sentient robots.
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Never Give Up
Single-player alternative to The Rare Nine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Rare Nine.
Never Give Up is a hardcore platformer determined to turn you into bloody chunks. Run, jump, and slide your way through ever-changing levels that get harder each time you succeed. You’ll need to try, die, and try again if you want to conquer the game without pressing the Give Up button.
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DR LIVESEY ROM AND DEATH EDITION
Single-player alternative to The Rare Nine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Rare Nine.
DR LIVESEY: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA, gentlemen, from now on, rom and death means the same thing for you.
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RUSSIA BATTLEGROUNDS
Single-player alternative to The Rare Nine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Rare Nine.
RUSSIA BATTLEGROUNDS - is a online Battle Royale shooter in which players fight for their homeland. Only your fierce anger and cruelty will help you survive in this bloodbath.
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DOKA 2 KISHKI EDITION
Single-player alternative to The Rare Nine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Rare Nine.
DOKA 2 KISHKI EDITION is a game where you kill zombies, or you yourself are zombies, this is a game where you kill in the most sophisticated ways of people, that is, there you can come up with a certain area. Thank you for my rock childhood.
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STORM AREA 51: AYY LMAO EDITION
Single-player alternative to The Rare Nine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Rare Nine.
STORM AREA 51: AYY LMAO EDITION - it's time to Storm AREA 51, and see them aliens. If we Naruto Run, we can move faster than their bullets. Rock Throwers will throw pebbles (to annoy them enough to not shoot the Kyles as often). They can't stop all of us...