Single-player games like Nova Drift
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Nova Drift, 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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Neon Abyss
Single-player alternative to Nova Drift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nova Drift.
Neon Abyss is a frantic, roguelite action-platformer where you run ‘n’ gun your way into the Abyss. Featuring unlimited item synergies and a unique dungeon evolution system, each run diversifies the experience and every choice alters the ruleset.
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Glyphica: Typing Survival
Single-player alternative to Nova Drift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nova Drift.
Weaponize your WPM. Glyphica: Typing Survival is a single-player roguelite horde survival typing game that lets you mow down hordes of enemies in a minimalistic arena using your finger dexterity, your choice of weapons loadout, and sheer determination.
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Geometry Arena
Single-player alternative to Nova Drift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nova Drift.
A free-form arena-shooter Roguelite with heavy emphasis on building an overpowered character! You play as a little shape that shoots other shapes! Strengthen your character by mixing and matching mods and upgrades, and experiment with a limitless rune upgrade system!
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NIMRODS
Single-player alternative to Nova Drift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nova Drift.
Assemble a limitless arsenal in this survive-em-up roguelite shooter. As a Gun Manufacturer's testing force, your mission is simple: test the latest gun tech and scavenge alien planets. Collect insane weapon parts to invent crazy guns that slay thousands. You may not survive, but your guns will!
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Arcadium - Space Odyssey
Single-player alternative to Nova Drift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nova Drift.
Arcadium is a survival roguelite set in a dynamic, ever-changing universe. Journey across space, harvest planetary resources, and craft powerful builds to eradicate relentless waves of aliens. Each playthrough unveils a new and uncharted universe, ensuring endless challenges and discoveries.
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Steredenn: Binary Stars
Single-player alternative to Nova Drift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nova Drift.
Steredenn is a frenetic and chaotic space shooter, carved in big beautiful pixels, with insane boss battles. Embark in your ship and engage the fight against dreadful space pirates in a never-ending combat for your survival.
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Utopia Must Fall
Single-player alternative to Nova Drift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nova Drift.
Defend humanity's last surviving metropolis from mysterious alien machinations in this challenging base-defense arcade shooter. Featuring rapid upgrade progression, procedurally generated attack waves, dark humor and laser-sharp aesthetics.
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Stellar Interface
Single-player alternative to Nova Drift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nova Drift.
Run through the universe in this rogue-like-ish space-shooter. Discover the numerous perks/consumables and their synergistic effects. Explore the randomly-generated galaxy to find merchants, unlock spacecrafts, collect Cartridges and checkmark your kills of the various galactic overlords.
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Vampire Survivors
Single-player alternative to Nova Drift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nova Drift.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
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Hades
Single-player alternative to Nova Drift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nova Drift.
Defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash out of the Underworld in this rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre.
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Dead Cells
Single-player alternative to Nova Drift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nova Drift.
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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Space Invaders Extreme
Single-player alternative to Nova Drift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Nova Drift.
The critically acclaimed update to the Space Invaders franchise has arrived to invade Steam with greatly improved graphics and audio! Packed with pulsing, vibrant visuals enhanced further by interactive sound. The invaders have evolved, the question is: can you keep up?
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Wizard of Legend
Single-player alternative to Nova Drift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nova Drift.
Wizard of Legend is a no-nonsense, action-packed take on wizardry that emphasizes precise movements and smart comboing of spells in a rogue-like dungeon crawler that features over a hundred unique spells and relics!
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Gunfire Reborn
Single-player alternative to Nova Drift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nova Drift.
Gunfire Reborn is a level-based adventure game featuring FPS, Roguelite and RPG. Players can control heroes with various abilities to experience diverse Build gameplay, use various weapons to explore procedurally-generated levels. You can play the game alone, or join 4-player coop.
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MOTHERGUNSHIP
Single-player alternative to Nova Drift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nova Drift.
MOTHERGUNSHIP is a bullet-hell FPS where you craft your own guns, fight gigantic bosses, and defeat a robotic alien armada that conquered Earth. Face off against overwhelming odds in brutal, non-stop combats where thinking on your feet is the only way to survive.
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Noita
Single-player alternative to Nova Drift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nova Drift.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.