Single-player games like Thunderbolt
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Thunderbolt, 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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Zombie Clicker Defense
Single-player alternative to Thunderbolt — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Thunderbolt.
Hire new soldiers and send them into battle with an inordinately growing army of various walking creatures.
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Protect Me
Single-player alternative to Thunderbolt — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Thunderbolt.
Protect me, and I I'll help you do it more effectively.
- 3
Airstrike One
Single-player alternative to Thunderbolt — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Thunderbolt.
You have an unique opportunity to control a deadly fighter. To break through temporary stretches and destroy as many enemy combat units as possible. You can use a high-speed machine gun and homing air-to-air missiles. Pick up the powerups to add armor and ammo.
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Defense the Farm
Single-player alternative to Thunderbolt — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Casual with Thunderbolt.
Short story of the farmer Bob. As on a sunny day,at his beloved farm began to arrive alive deads. As on this day, he seriously took up the defense of his territory. Defend the farm, destroy the incoming waves of amusing zombies using dexterity, tactics, and three types of weapons (pistol, rifle, automatic rifle).
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Tactical Operations
Single-player alternative to Thunderbolt — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Thunderbolt.
Tactical Operations is a subsystem of investigative, organizational-preparatory, other actions and operational-search activities conducted under a single plan and aimed at solving individual intermediate tasks subordinated to the general objectives of investigating a criminal case.
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Tumblestone
Single-player alternative to Thunderbolt — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Thunderbolt.
Tumblestone is the first original action-puzzle game of the past fifteen years -- completely reinventing the genre into a deep and cerebral puzzle solving experience that you won't forget.
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StepX
Single-player alternative to Thunderbolt — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Thunderbolt.
The most popular music game is now available on steam. The easiest way to realize your musical ideas is with just a few mouse clicks. In front of you is a panel with notes with different musical instruments. You can adjust the tempo, volume, tonality. You can import and export your creations.
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Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine
Single-player alternative to Thunderbolt — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Thunderbolt.
Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine is a single player or co-op heist game. Assemble a crack team of thieves, case the joint, and pull off the perfect heist.
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Ruin City Gasolina
Single-player alternative to Thunderbolt — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Thunderbolt.
Eliminate the invasion of mechanical invaders and save what remains of the once great city.
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Quad Hopping
Single-player alternative to Thunderbolt — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Thunderbolt.
The simplest puzzle game is the reaction and the ability to make quick decisions. As we move, we score points and the game gradually accelerates, it is already harder to catch up on the cherished platform to jump even further, to a greater result.
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The Thing: Space X
Single-player alternative to Thunderbolt — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Thunderbolt.
At your disposal are a dozen of the best combat spacecraft equipped with death beams, machine guns and missiles. The sector is divided into several subsectors, which swarm with enemies. In the end, you will have an unbeatable boss - the "Thing".
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Snakeez
Single-player alternative to Thunderbolt — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Thunderbolt.
SNAKeez is a simple "snake" classic style game but with different physics.Here you have to collect not apples but eggs and snake's tail grows much faster.
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Pixelord
Single-player alternative to Thunderbolt — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Thunderbolt.
The simplest click runner for a long distance. Avoid the traps, jump over the abysses, run as far as possible from the haunting danger and maybe at the end expects salvation.