Single-player games like Pixelpunk XL
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Pixelpunk XL, 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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EVERSPACE™
Single-player alternative to Pixelpunk XL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pixelpunk XL.
EVERSPACE™ combines fast-paced combat with roguelike elements, great visuals and a captivating story. It takes you on a challenging journey through an ever-changing, beautifully crafted universe full of surprises. Shoot, craft and loot your way to victory while the odds are stacked against you.
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Delver
Single-player alternative to Pixelpunk XL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pixelpunk XL.
Delve into the shifting dungeons on your hunt for the Yithidian orb, but getting it might just be the easy part. Delver is a single player first-person action roguelike dungeon crawler, just like you wished they used to make.
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Tower of Guns
Single-player alternative to Pixelpunk XL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pixelpunk XL.
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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Heavy Bullets
Single-player alternative to Pixelpunk XL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pixelpunk XL.
Heavy Bullets is a randomized FPS dungeon crawler where players make their way through a colorful maze, while protecting themselves from aggressive creatures and malfunctioning security devices. The goal lies at the end of the 8th level, where they must reset the security mainframe to restore order and reap the rewards.
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Desecrators
Single-player alternative to Pixelpunk XL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pixelpunk XL.
Desecrators is a retro six-degrees-of-freedom shooter set in a 41st-century galaxy where outlaw hovercraft pilots plunder deep-space installations. Loot destructive weapons and powerful upgrades to take on the ultimate heist: the legendary vaults of the Galactic Treasury.
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Killing Room
Single-player alternative to Pixelpunk XL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pixelpunk XL.
Rogue-like FPS with strong RPG elements set in a 22nd century reality-show parody. Win a fortune or die, but never disappoint your audience. And audience is virtual or real with revolutionary but optional features for streamers and their fans.
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Bow to Blood: Last Captain Standing
Single-player alternative to Pixelpunk XL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pixelpunk XL.
Become a Captain! Fly your ship and command your crew as you compete to become Champion in a winner-takes-all reality show. Build relationships and plot betrayals to avoid getting voted off the season and become the last captain standing. Optional VR support.
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HyperParasite
Single-player alternative to Pixelpunk XL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pixelpunk XL.
A rogue-lite twin-stick shooter/brawler that never plays the same twice. Collect and control 60 different characters as the body-snatching alien Parasite with a grudge against humanity. Fight to the top of the food chain: possess the President, push the Big Red Button and one-up the human race.
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Fly in the House
Single-player alternative to Pixelpunk XL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pixelpunk XL.
There’s a fly in your apartment! Hunt it down and squish it! Damn, that fly is fast! If a fly swat won’t get it, use furniture. If that doesn’t work, use anything you can find… just squish it! The more you smash, the more points you earn.
- 10
Inside The Gear
Single-player alternative to Pixelpunk XL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Pixelpunk XL.
A physics puzzle game like no other! You are inside the big old machine. There are rusty gears and shafts all around you, along with interactive objects such as planks and cubes. Use each object and place the wheel on the platform – easy!
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Somewhere on Zibylon
Single-player alternative to Pixelpunk XL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pixelpunk XL.
The game is filled to the brim with the atmosphere of cold space and zero gravity, features unusual game mechanics with a lot of puzzles, exploration, stealth, resource extraction, crafting, fights with alien forces and seizing space stations!
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Bars and Balance
Single-player alternative to Pixelpunk XL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Pixelpunk XL.
Relaxing physics puzzle game with minimalist design.
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Elbub
Single-player alternative to Pixelpunk XL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Pixelpunk XL.
You are a bubble, flying among other bubbles. Relax and go on a journey!
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Balls and Magnets
Single-player alternative to Pixelpunk XL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Pixelpunk XL.
Relaxing physics puzzle game with minimalist design.
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Smile'N'Slide
Single-player alternative to Pixelpunk XL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pixelpunk XL.
A fun and colorful game about a little dude who loves to play the ape in his day-to-day life by sliding on inclined surfaces.
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Zibbs - Alien Survival
Single-player alternative to Pixelpunk XL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pixelpunk XL.
Zibbs - Alien Survival is an open world game where you play as an alien trying to survive on the unknown planet - Earth.