Single-player games like Dead Ground
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Dead Ground, 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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Eyeb
Single-player alternative to Dead Ground — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Dead Ground.
Eyeb is an action packed tower defense-like that pits a young space cadet's bionic eyeball against a harrowing nano-bot invasion. Push out, explore, power up and drop a trillion towers for the glory of facing off with the diabolical Nano-Lord. You can also go fishing in space.
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Ziggurat
Single-player alternative to Dead Ground — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Ground.
Dungeon-Crawling First Person Shooting at its finest! Fast-paced combat! Dozens of perks, spells and enemies! Level ups! Random Dungeons! Traps! Badass bosses! Carrots!
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Heart Keeper
Single-player alternative to Dead Ground — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Dead Ground.
Heart Keeper is a survival tower defense game with action roguelike elements. Protect the Sacred Heart by building and upgrading an arsenal of turrets and various structures. Combine strategy and quick reflexes to survive massive waves of enemies!
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Loot River
Single-player alternative to Dead Ground — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Dead Ground.
Explore procedurally generated labyrinths in this challenging, narrative-rich roguelike. Master deep combat. Slide blocks of ancient ruins. Defeat bestial abominations. Loot, level up, strategize, fight, die and wake up anew. Unlock the secrets of the Loot River. Immortality is a bittersweet gift.
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Chaos Caster
Single-player alternative to Dead Ground — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Dead Ground.
Cast spells, dash around hordes of enemies, and assemble powerful combos as you explore procedurally generated dungeons. Chaos Caster is an action roguelike focused on strategy, playstyle variety, and replayability.
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Immortal Redneck
Single-player alternative to Dead Ground — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Ground.
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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Tower of Guns
Single-player alternative to Dead Ground — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Ground.
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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Winged Sakura: Endless Dream
Single-player alternative to Dead Ground — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Dead Ground.
Discover. Build. Defend. Survive. Escort. Open endless doors, discover endless new rooms, and defeat endless robots. Build towers, form contracts, gain new allies, and survive the Endless Dream.
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Borderlands 2
Single-player alternative to Dead Ground — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Dead Ground.
The Ultimate Vault Hunter’s Upgrade lets you get the most out of the Borderlands 2 experience.
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Kontrakt
Single-player alternative to Dead Ground — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Ground.
Kontrakt is a hyper-violent action-adventure game about schizophrenia with a dark and twisted story. You will assume the role of a hitman involved in mysterious contract killing, while uncovering the dirty truth and secrets behind the City of Light.
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Danger Gazers
Single-player alternative to Dead Ground — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Ground.
Danger Gazers is a post-apocalyptic roguelite top-down shooter where you pave your own path. The choices you make will decide your fate, it will either turn you into the new ruler or... the ashes to be windswept away.
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Dungeons of Clay
Single-player alternative to Dead Ground — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dead Ground.
Explore the ever-changing dungeons in the surreal world made of clay. Unlock the hidden secrets, overcome the dangers, defeat dreadful creatures and reap the treasures to acquire almighty power.
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The Dead Await: Prologue
Single-player alternative to Dead Ground — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Dead Ground.
Get ready to experience the thrills and chills of The Dead Await: Prologue, a free and fully functional demo! Build your deck and try to survive in this deck-building survival RPG set during a zombie apocalypse.
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The Dead Await
Single-player alternative to Dead Ground — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Ground.
Build your deck and try to survive in The Dead Await, a deck-building RPG set during a zombie apocalypse. As one of many survivors, set out across the desolate world, discover the truth about the outbreak, and rebuild human civilization - or die trying.