Single-player games like DESERT KILL
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to DESERT KILL, 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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Nuclear Throne
Single-player alternative to DESERT KILL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with DESERT KILL.
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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OTXO
Single-player alternative to DESERT KILL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with DESERT KILL.
Enter an inexplicable, abstract mansion to rescue a loved one in this fast-paced, brutal, and dark roguelite filled with precise but savage gunplay and time-bending slow motion. Face your inner demons and unveil the secrets of the Mansion.
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Paint the Town Red
Single-player alternative to DESERT KILL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with DESERT KILL.
Paint the Town Red is a chaotic first person melee combat game set in different locations and time periods. The voxel-based enemies can be punched, bashed, kicked, stabbed and sliced completely dynamically using almost anything that isn't nailed down.
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Neon Chrome
Single-player alternative to DESERT KILL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with DESERT KILL.
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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Survivors of the Dawn
Single-player alternative to DESERT KILL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with DESERT KILL.
A roguelite horde-survival bullet heaven with QUINTILLIONS of bullets over QUINTILLIONS of hordes. Mix weapons with items, modify, control chaos at terminals and break through tightening waves.
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Teleglitch: Die More Edition
Single-player alternative to DESERT KILL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with DESERT KILL.
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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Serious Sam: Tormental
Single-player alternative to DESERT KILL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with DESERT KILL.
Serious Sam: Tormental is a 3D rogue-lite top-down shooter where you blast your way through the tormented mind of demigod of destruction Mental, as he imagines worlds and monsters that stand on your path towards his inner ego. Let the showdown begin!
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Hell is Others
Single-player alternative to DESERT KILL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with DESERT KILL.
Hell is Others is an extraction top-down shooter combining roguelike elements. Outside the safety of your apartment lies the noir hellscape that is Century City. A city of endless night that straddles the line between reality and insanity. Explore, hunt, and loot in a place where blood is currency.
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Survive on Raft
Single-player alternative to DESERT KILL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with DESERT KILL.
Survive on Raft is a Survival Sandbox Simulator on the Raft in the middle of the ocean! Fight with shark, build base, craft, loot islands, farm and survive. Play solo or with friends.
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CyberCorp
Single-player alternative to DESERT KILL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with DESERT KILL.
Brutal fast-paced isometric Co-op Loot Shooter in Cyberpunk world. Equipment-based combos. Exotic Weapons and Armor. Easy to start, hard to master. Play solo or with friends.
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ZIC – Zombies in City
Single-player alternative to DESERT KILL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with DESERT KILL.
Control a team of 4 characters, switching between them to use their unique abilities. ZIC: Zombies In City is a first person zombie survival shooter.
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ZIC: Survival
Single-player alternative to DESERT KILL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with DESERT KILL.
ZIC: Survival is a survival shooter where you feel The Zombie Apocalypse & become The Undead Hunter!
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Koloboke: Sickness Simulator
Single-player alternative to DESERT KILL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with DESERT KILL.
Only Up + First-person rolling mechanics. This combo is pure madness. Try not to fall!