Single-player games like Pirate Island Rescue
Below are 12 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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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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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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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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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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Skul: The Hero Slayer
Single-player alternative to Pirate Island Rescue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Pirate Island Rescue.
Guide 'Skul' on his quest to single-handedly take on the Imperial Army and rescue his King from captivity, in an action-packed rogue-lite 2D platformer for the ages.
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Anomaly Agent
Single-player alternative to Pirate Island Rescue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Pirate Island Rescue.
ANOMALY AGENT is a cyberpunk action-adventure featuring fluid combat, a time-bending story, quirky characters and a catchy synthwave soundtrack! Punch or shoot through mobs of enemies, impact the story with your choices and stop the anomalies before the world plunges into chaos!
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They Bleed Pixels
Single-player alternative to Pirate Island Rescue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Pirate Island Rescue.
They Bleed Pixels is a fiendishly difficult action platformer inspired by H.P. Lovecraft and classic horror.
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Astral Ascent
Single-player alternative to Pirate Island Rescue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Pirate Island Rescue.
Choose one of four heroes and explore the Garden, an astral prison guarded by 12 powerful mystical bosses: the Zodiacs. Challenge them with dozens of unique spells and faithful friends by your side to unfold the story of this platform roguelite with lightning fast combat.
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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 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