Single-player games like DON'T DIE!
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to DON'T DIE!, 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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Gloom
Single-player alternative to DON'T DIE! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with DON'T DIE!.
Afflicted by severe amnesia, you drift deep into the Common Dream. You scour for the lost pages of the Necronomicon, while clinging on to any little purpose you have left. Faced with mad dreamers, horrible abominations and eldritch deities, you feel drawn to the dark Abyss deep within.
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Heavy Bullets
Single-player alternative to DON'T DIE! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with DON'T DIE!.
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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Deadly Days
Single-player alternative to DON'T DIE! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with DON'T DIE!.
Deadly Days is a unique strategic rogue-lite in the zombie apocalypse. Manage and protect a group of survivors and help them to stop the catastrophe. Discover and use a large number of wild and crazy objects, even wilder and crazier survivors, special abilities, and deadly weapons.
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Still Not Dead
Single-player alternative to DON'T DIE! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with DON'T DIE!.
Still Not Dead is a challenging roguelite FPS that merges the fast satisfying gunplay of Doom with open stages, insane weaponry, tactical choice and being pursued by death itself. The unique blessing and curse system, plus unlockable skill skulls set the game apart from everything else.
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Dead Cells
Single-player alternative to DON'T DIE! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with DON'T DIE!.
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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Diehard Dungeon
Single-player alternative to DON'T DIE! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with DON'T DIE!.
Combining its own unique take on the real-time roguelike genre, with a nostalgic 16-bit look and feel, Diehard Dungeon is a game that feels both familiar and quite different at the same time. Followed by a trusty, treasure collecting companion chest, you must make your way through the dungeons many randomly-generated rooms and levels.
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Dunjungle
Single-player alternative to DON'T DIE! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with DON'T DIE!.
A 2d action-packed roguelite about a monkey hero protecting the jungle from the rise of a corruptive power. Explore ever-changing dungeons, fight weird enemies and gear up with lots of weapons and relics you can combine for a new experience every run. Explore, fight, die, and repeat!
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Teleglitch: Die More Edition
Single-player alternative to DON'T DIE! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with DON'T DIE!.
In a cold, dark future dominated by mega-corporations, a small lonely planet on the edge of habitable space is the site of a shadowy research facility specializing in necrotic tissue reactivation. You are a scientist who has suddenly awoken to the realization that you are the lone survivor.
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BANG! BANG! Totally Accurate Redneck Simulator
Single-player alternative to DON'T DIE! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with DON'T DIE!.
BANG! BANG! Totally Accurate Redneck Simulator is a silly and super tough physics based shooter puzzler in which you attempt to help a drunken redneck hit targets without accidentally shooting himself with a ricochet.
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Drunken Fist 🍺👊 Totally Accurate Beat 'em up
Single-player alternative to DON'T DIE! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with DON'T DIE!.
Funny drunken physics-based beat'em up game. Drunken brawls, lawlessness and more fun! Look for food and booze! Don’t forget to urinate on the asphalt...or on your enemies ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Add to Your Wishlist!
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Dead Motherland: Zombie Co-op
Single-player alternative to DON'T DIE! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with DON'T DIE!.
A dark co-op top-down shooter in a post-soviet zombie apocalypse setting. You appear at a random location in the city. The goal is to get to the transport, and you will make the path yourself. In the day - look for resources and build fortifications. At night - destroy the dead and their bosses!
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Drunken Fist 2: Zombie Hangover
Single-player alternative to DON'T DIE! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with DON'T DIE!.
Filled with blood, gore and loss of limbs depicted in light-hearted low-poly style, Drunken Fist 2: Zombie Hangover is a whimsical take on survival horror, featuring physics-based beat ‘em up action and ragdoll takedowns that no sober player would take seriously.
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Hot Blood
Single-player alternative to DON'T DIE! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with DON'T DIE!.
Take down zombies as a deadly cutie in 3D low-poly style! Hot Blood is physics-based brawling fun inspired by action movies of the 80s & 90s.