Single-player games like Zombie Soldier
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Zombie Soldier, 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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Cave Story+
Single-player alternative to Zombie Soldier — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zombie Soldier.
Run, jump, shoot, fly and explore your way through a massive action-adventure reminiscent of classic 8- and 16-bit games.
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Castle In The Darkness
Single-player alternative to Zombie Soldier — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zombie Soldier.
Castle In The Darkness is a fun and challenging shout out to the early days of video games! It's an action exploration platformer with some RPG elements, much like games from the Castlevania or Metroid series. It's super fast-paced, challenging, and full of secrets!
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Aggelos
Single-player alternative to Zombie Soldier — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zombie Soldier.
Critically-acclaimed action-RPG that takes the template laid down by classics like Wonder Boy, nails the 16-Bit aesthetics for nostalgia fans, but updates the mechanics to feel fresh and modern. Explore a beautiful open world and plunder dungeons, caves and forests to help take down epic bosses!
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Odallus: The Dark Call
Single-player alternative to Zombie Soldier — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zombie Soldier.
The old gods have forgotten this land. No one could save our people when darkness started spreading and collecting human souls for its army. Odallus is a classic exploration/action game, inspired by Ghosts’n Goblins, Demon’s Crest and Castlevania.
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EggK47
Single-player alternative to Zombie Soldier — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zombie Soldier.
EggK47™ is a retro styled, addictive, and fast paced single player shoot 'em up featuring a hero chicken and it's gun!
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Axiom Verge
Single-player alternative to Zombie Soldier — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zombie Soldier.
Explore and uncover the mystery of a surreal alien world by blasting aliens and glitching your environment in this intense retro side-scrolling action/adventure.
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Infernax
Single-player alternative to Zombie Soldier — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zombie Soldier.
Infernax is the adventures of a great knight who returns to his homeland only to find it plagued with unholy magic. Uncover the mysteries of the curse and face the consequences of your actions.
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Owlboy
Single-player alternative to Zombie Soldier — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zombie Soldier.
Owlboy is a story-driven platform adventure game, where you can fly and explore a brand new world in the clouds! Pick up your friends, and bring them with you as you explore the open skies, in one of the most detailed adventures of this era.
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Midnightland
Single-player alternative to Zombie Soldier — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zombie Soldier.
Explore, shoot, collect and kill in Midnightland™ a retro style B-movie horror amusement park that is constantly evolving.
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FREEDOM: Hunt Kill Fly
Single-player alternative to Zombie Soldier — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Zombie Soldier.
You are the golden eagle, the apex predator of the avian world. Hunt, kill, and fly to survive.