Single-player games like Black Paradox
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Black Paradox, 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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Woodpunk
Single-player alternative to Black Paradox — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Black Paradox.
Woodpunk is an exhilarating roguelike bullet hell retro pixel art shooter in a medieval Woodpunk universe, where the primary energy resource is WOOD.
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Red Zirion
Single-player alternative to Black Paradox — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Black Paradox.
Red Zirion is a retro shooting game with upgradeable attributes in the roguelike style. Game inspired by groups of heroes and animated series from the 80s.
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Steredenn: Binary Stars
Single-player alternative to Black Paradox — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Black Paradox.
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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Nuclear Throne
Single-player alternative to Black Paradox — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Black Paradox.
Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?
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Dungeon Souls
Single-player alternative to Black Paradox — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Black Paradox.
Dungeon Souls is an action-adventure roguelike dungeon crawler which draws heavy inspiration from Nuclear Throne, Risk of Rain, and Overture. Explore vast procedurally generated dungeons, collect loot, and slay hordes of challenging enemies!
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Mega City Force
Single-player alternative to Black Paradox — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Black Paradox.
Retrowave Action Roguelike featuring tough agents battling crime to the electrifying music of artists like Droid Bishop, Timecop1983, and more! Choose your agent and dive into hardcore action against enemies and bosses, utilizing a vast arsenal and special abilities that will define your playstyle
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One Step From Eden
Single-player alternative to Black Paradox — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Black Paradox.
Build a powerful deck, cast spells on the fly, battle evolving enemies, find game-changing artifacts, make friends or make enemies, just make it to Eden.
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Wizard of Legend
Single-player alternative to Black Paradox — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Black Paradox.
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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Mad Max
Single-player alternative to Black Paradox — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Black Paradox.
Play as Mad Max, a reluctant hero and survivor who wants nothing more than to leave the madness behind and find solace.
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Neon Chrome
Single-player alternative to Black Paradox — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Black Paradox.
A masterful combination of top-down shooter and endless replayability with procedural levels. Blast your way through walls & enemies with guns and cybernetic abilities. Install perks from cyber chambers and upgrade your character stats after each death. Can you stop the Overseer?
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Kill to Collect
Single-player alternative to Black Paradox — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Black Paradox.
Welcome to the last city on Earth. Earn your keep and die trying in Pieces Interactive’s cyberpunk action rogue-like, featuring 1-4 player co-op. Travel down the sleepless cesspool of murderous vagrants and cybernetic freaks, as you slice and dice your way to the lower levels of Geoshelter Alpha.
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Robot terminator
Single-player alternative to Black Paradox — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Black Paradox.
This is a third person action adventure game,The player is on an island full of monsters,Players can explore freely in bad weather,The player must kill the monster or avoid the monster's attack and survive as long as possible.
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Terminator 2D: NO FATE
Single-player alternative to Black Paradox — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Black Paradox.
Experience the thrill of Terminator 2: Judgment Day with arcade action & pixel-perfect graphics! In this unique story blending iconic scenes from the movie with original scenarios and multiple endings, humanity’s fate is yours to decide.
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Landflix Odyssey
Single-player alternative to Black Paradox — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Black Paradox.
Explore the worlds of your favorite TV shows, fight their famous villains and retrieve nuclear batteries to escape the Landflix Odyssey!
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Hero Express
Single-player alternative to Black Paradox — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Black Paradox.
Hero Express is an amazing 2d physics-driven driving game, full of strategy and fun. Go to an awesome journey around the world and save the planet!