Single-player games like SAMS
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to SAMS, 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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Warhammer 40,000: Shootas, Blood & Teef
Single-player alternative to SAMS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with SAMS.
From the developers of the Guns, Gore and Cannoli franchise comes a new 2D run & gun platformer: Warhammer 40,000: Shootas, Blood & TEEF! Spearhead an Ork invasion, destroy the hive city and kill your warboss! ‘Ere we go!
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Guns, Gore & Cannoli
Single-player alternative to SAMS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with SAMS.
Guns, Gore & Cannoli - An over-the-top, comical and fast-paced action game with hand-drawn graphics set in the Roaring Twenties. An all-you-can-shoot fest where you embody Vinnie, a mobster with a mission in a city controlled by gangsters and plagued by zombies. Featuring up to 4-man local co-op.
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Blazing Chrome
Single-player alternative to SAMS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with SAMS.
In Blazing Chrome, bring your best pal and kick some metal butts to free the humankind while enjoying a classic run’n’gun, fully loaded with action and exciting fights!
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Altitude
Single-player alternative to SAMS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with SAMS.
Now Available on PC, Mac and Linux!
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Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration
Single-player alternative to SAMS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with SAMS.
Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration takes players on an interactive journey through 50 years of video games via interviews with designers, developers and industry leaders, documentary footage, product design documents, high-res original artwork, and a curated list of more than 90 playable games.
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Beat Hazard 2
Single-player alternative to SAMS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with SAMS.
Experience your music collection as never before with this intense music driven arcade shooter. Each of your songs will have its own unique ebb and flow based on the music.
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Broforce
Single-player alternative to SAMS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with SAMS.
Broforce is an action-packed side-scrolling run ‘n’ gun ode to freedom, putting you in control of an under-funded, overpowered paramilitary organization dealing exclusively in excessive force.
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Sine Mora EX
Single-player alternative to SAMS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with SAMS.
Sine Mora EX is a side-scrolling shoot'em up that provides a unique challenge, where time is the ultimate factor. Mixing classic shooter sensibilities with contemporary presentation, Sine Mora EX is a gorgeous shoot'em up offering both a Story Mode that weaves an excessive tale and an Arcade Mode.
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BlackEye
Single-player alternative to SAMS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with SAMS.
BlackEye is an adventure game, and its main character is the inhabitant of the world of Koyte. This mysterious world is divided into two - upper and lower ones. No one inhabitant of the upper world would voluntarily go down to the lower world. However the main character has to reach the bottom!
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Get Achievements for Achievements
Single-player alternative to SAMS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with SAMS.
The main goal of this game is to get achievements.
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Cyberoque
Single-player alternative to SAMS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with SAMS.
The game takes place in 2215. Suddenly terrible news has come from the outskirts of the solar system: our civilization was attacked by the alien armies. A terrible war begins, humanity is surrounded, enemy space ships press the earth's army.
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Halloween Pumpkin Story
Single-player alternative to SAMS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with SAMS.
Evil spirits on the Day of All Saints give the pumpkin power and send into the otherworldly dark world of nightmare and horror, and what will happen to the pumpkin you will be able to find yourself in the world of the game!
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Super Jet Juck
Single-player alternative to SAMS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with SAMS.
Super Jet Juck is a dynamic puzzle and adventure game. Join the soldiers Juck and Tom!
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CRYEP
Single-player alternative to SAMS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with SAMS.
CRYEP is a hardcore two-dimensional action platformer that combines the genre of "rogue" and the mechanics of Contra. Actions take place in a parallel universe, year 3318. Go on an expedition and fight with alien enemies.
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Moi Mei
Single-player alternative to SAMS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with SAMS.
The fate of his brother in danger, May is going to be a dangerous journey.
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RRRR
Single-player alternative to SAMS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with SAMS.
RRRR controls the super soldier Rabbit. Save civilization from destruction in the battle for freedom.