Single-player games like Pirate Island Rescue
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Pirate Island Rescue, 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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30XX
Single-player alternative to Pirate Island Rescue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Pirate Island Rescue.
Jump, shoot, and slash your way through 30XX, the roguelike action platformer you can play with a friend! Explore lush, ever-changing worlds that mix precise platforming with fevered combat. Destroy fearsome Guardians. Master unique Powers. Rediscover the thousand years we've lost.
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Flinthook
Single-player alternative to Pirate Island Rescue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Pirate Island Rescue.
Live the life of space captain Flinthook! Armed with your mighty hookshot, your uncanny slow-motion powers and your trusty blasma pistol, plunder and fight your way through an infinite variety of randomly-assembled spaceships for treasure, loot and fame!
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Choice Chamber
Single-player alternative to Pirate Island Rescue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Pirate Island Rescue.
Choice Chamber is a real-time, crowdsourced, procedurally generated game where your fate is in everyone else's hands.
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Fallback
Single-player alternative to Pirate Island Rescue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Pirate Island Rescue.
Lead the rebellion in an epic rogue-like adventure. Guide your jet-pack equipped post-apocalyptic volunteers through a labyrinthine underground complex by jumping, dodging, and battling against robot minions (and masters) to get to the surface — and bring life back to the scorched Earth.
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Fury Unleashed
Single-player alternative to Pirate Island Rescue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Pirate Island Rescue.
Shoot your way through the pages of an ever-changing comic book in this fast-paced roguelike. Play solo, in local or online co-op, expand your weaponry, and upgrade your hero with each run. All that to find out why has your creator lost his faith in you and to prove him wrong.
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Son of a Witch
Single-player alternative to Pirate Island Rescue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Pirate Island Rescue.
Action roguelike for 1-4 players with cute graphics and deep game mechanics. Combine dozens of different weapons, magic items, potions and spells with unique effects to beat 8 enemy factions and 28 bosses. Can you find the ancient goblin artifact at the end of the dungeon?
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Going Under
Single-player alternative to Pirate Island Rescue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Pirate Island Rescue.
Going Under is a satirical dungeon crawler about exploring the cursed ruins of failed tech startups. As an unpaid intern in the dystopian city of Neo-Cascadia, you’ll wield office junk as weaponry as you make your way through the offbeat procedural dungeons beneath your company campus.
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Lost Castle / 失落城堡
Single-player alternative to Pirate Island Rescue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Pirate Island Rescue.
Lost Castle is an action RPG beat'em up with roguelike elements and randomized dungeons for up to four players online and local!
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Fortune and Gloria
Single-player alternative to Pirate Island Rescue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Pirate Island Rescue.
Grab your trusty assault rifle, a handful of grenades, and get ready to be dropped off in the hot zone to rescue as many hostages as you can, taking out any enemies you encounter, before beating the boss and getting on the chopper heading off to the next mission.
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Steampunk Graveyard
Single-player alternative to Pirate Island Rescue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Pirate Island Rescue.
The dead walk with a metallic clunk! Run, jump and shoot your way past mechanized zombies in an endless series of graveyards. It's up to you, Professor Selene Gasket, to put a stop to the menace and save the terrified villagers from the minions of Baron Richter von Sprocket.
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The King's Campaign
Single-player alternative to Pirate Island Rescue — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Conquer Medieval Europe and North Africa in a combination of Grand Strategy and Real-Time Strategy gameplay where you rule one of 28 kingdoms as you build and manage your cities, engage in diplomacy and command massive armies on the world map and on the battlefield
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Small Kingdoms
Single-player alternative to Pirate Island Rescue — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Small Kingdoms is a streamlined grand strategy and RTS game with procedurally generated campaigns. Build up your cities and armies on the world map and command your troops on the battlefield. Rule a medieval fantasy kingdom and conquer your rivals.
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Small Kingdoms Prologue
Single-player alternative to Pirate Island Rescue — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Rule a small fantasy kingdom and conquer your rival as you build up your cities and armies on the world map and command your troops on the battlefield. Small Kingdoms is a streamlined grand strategy and real-time strategy game, the Small Kingdoms Prologue is a free introductory campaign