Single-player games like Nexuiz
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Nexuiz, 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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TOXIKK™
Single-player alternative to Nexuiz — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Nexuiz.
FRAG LIKE IT'S 1999! TOXIKK plays as if today's military shooters never existed: Designed as a spiritual successor to the FPS giants of the late 90s and early 2ks, TOXIKK carefully evolves their mechanics with modern technology and fresh ideas elaborated with Arena-FPS enthusiasts.
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Rise of the Triad
Single-player alternative to Nexuiz — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Nexuiz.
Apogee Software and Interceptor Entertainment proudly present the rebirth of the cult-classic first-person shooter, “Rise of the Triad”. Bigger, better and more ludicrous than ever before.
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Turbo Overkill
Single-player alternative to Nexuiz — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Nexuiz.
Enter Paradise as Johnny Turbo—half-metal, half-human, all-murder machine. Clean up the streets with a chainsaw leg, 15+ weapons and your hovercar as you battle the rogue AI Syn, rival bounty hunters and cyberpunks aplenty. Apogee’s most outrageous FPS since Duke Nukem 3D. Good hunting, Sir!
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Strike Vector
Single-player alternative to Nexuiz — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Nexuiz.
"Strike Vector is gorgeous shooter with strong mechanics and lots of customisation" 7.7/10 – IGN"it more than makes up for by being a gorgeous, intensely competitive experience that matches its aesthetic appeal with pure shooter satisfaction"– 7.
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Quake Live
Single-player alternative to Nexuiz — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Nexuiz.
Experience the most exciting and fast-paced FPS gameplay while competing with players from around the world in over 100 arenas, a dozen game modes, and with persistent career stats tracking, in this online features-focused successor to Quake III Arena.
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Drunken Robot Pornography
Single-player alternative to Nexuiz — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Nexuiz.
Bullet-hell, boss-battle, first-person shooter, with giant-robots, martinis and jetpacks. YES. Drink the cocktails. Fight the titans. Make your own Titans. Drink your friend's cocktails.
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Sanctum
Single-player alternative to Nexuiz — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Nexuiz.
You think Tower Defense games are all about building? You thought wrong. Sanctum is not your average Tower Defense title. When the havoc starts, you get to join the fray! As one of the world’s first First Person Shooter - Tower Defense games, Sanctum has taken the best of both worlds to deliver an epic, one-of-a-kind experience.
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Unreal Tournament 3
Single-player alternative to Nexuiz — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Nexuiz.
Now includes the free Titan Pack expansion! The Titan Pack gives players a substantial amount of enhanced features and new content, including many original environments, new gametypes, the namesake Titan mutator, powerful deployables and weapons, new characters, and the Stealthbender.
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Quake
Single-player alternative to Nexuiz — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Nexuiz.
Developed by the award-winning id Software, Quake® is the ground-breaking, original dark fantasy first-person shooter that inspires today’s retro-style FPS games. With Quake (Enhanced), experience the authentic, updated, and visually enhanced version of the original.
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Xotic
Single-player alternative to Nexuiz — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Nexuiz.
Rack up huge scores by shooting enemies, detonating chain reactions, and discovering secret power-ups and point multipliers
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Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition
Single-player alternative to Nexuiz — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Nexuiz.
Unreal Tournament is the original King of the Hill in the frag-or-be-fragged multiplayer gaming world. As the undisputed 1999 Game of the Year, Unreal Tournament grabbed the first person shooter genre by the soiled seat of its pants and knocked it around the room with its never-before-seen graphics, brutal edge-of-your-seat gameplay and...
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Portal
Single-player alternative to Nexuiz — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Nexuiz.
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
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Quake III Arena
Single-player alternative to Nexuiz — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Nexuiz.
The greatest warriors of all time and space have been summoned to battle for the amusement of an ancient alien race. Wield a variety of guns and power-ups as you fight for glory against ruthless combatants in this fast-paced single-player and multiplayer FPS.
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Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed Ecto Edition
Single-player alternative to Nexuiz — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Nexuiz.
This is an asymmetrical game of hide and seek. In true form to IllFonic’s past titles, this title is a 4v1 setup where players will either play as part of a team of new Ghostbusters or a singular Ghost.
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Arcadegeddon
Single-player alternative to Nexuiz — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Nexuiz.
Rise up and play with up to three friends in this ever-evolving cooperative multiplayer, roguelite shooter. Explore multiple biomes, mini games, find hidden chests, and defeat numerous enemies and bosses.
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Dead Alliance™
Single-player alternative to Nexuiz — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Nexuiz.
Dead Alliance™ is a fast-paced, multiplayer first-person zombie shooter set in a post-apocalyptic world, where former military bases have been turned into the only remaining city-states.