Single-player games like Rick Henderson
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Rick Henderson, 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 Rick Henderson — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rick Henderson.
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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Starr Mazer: DSP
Single-player alternative to Rick Henderson — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rick Henderson.
The UNFP's been kicked in the teeth by a G'ell invasion force and their last and only hope is a planetary outpost and its fleet of experimental DSP MkI Forward Assault Fighters and anyone marshal enough to strap into one and forcefully accept some apologies.
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Power of Ten
Single-player alternative to Rick Henderson — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rick Henderson.
Fly a star-fighter against a bloodthirsty armada. Gather weapons, resources, and upgrades to help you push back the relentless assault while protecting the galaxies' civilians!
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Blacksea Odyssey
Single-player alternative to Rick Henderson — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rick Henderson.
Enter the Blacksea Odyssey, a violent top-down rogue-lite space shoot ‘em up RPG brimming with colossal creatures and runic technologies. Explore dangerous, interstellar spacescapes as you hunt enormous space-behemoths with a harpoon and rune-infused spears.
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Hell is Other Demons
Single-player alternative to Rick Henderson — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rick Henderson.
Hell is Other Demons is an action-platform shooter, with Roguelite elements. Explore a sprawling, hand-crafted world full of demons, insanely over-the-top boss fights, and a heavy synthwave soundtrack.
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GoNNER
Single-player alternative to Rick Henderson — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Rick Henderson.
GoNNER is a tough as hell procedurally-generated 2D platformer with roguelike elements, following the largely misunderstood and altruistic Ikk on a journey to cheer up his only friend in this world - a giant landbound whale named Sally - by searching for just the right trinket in the deep and dark places nearby.
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Teleglitch: Die More Edition
Single-player alternative to Rick Henderson — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rick Henderson.
In a cold, dark future dominated by mega-corporations, a small lonely planet on the edge of habitable space is the site of a shadowy research facility specializing in necrotic tissue reactivation. You are a scientist who has suddenly awoken to the realization that you are the lone survivor.
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CRYPTARK
Single-player alternative to Rick Henderson — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rick Henderson.
Cryptark is a 2D sci-fi shooter where you take on the role of a heavily armed privateer seeking to earn government contracts by boarding deadly alien space-hulks. It's up to you to strategize a plan of attack, pick an equipment loadout, and destroy the central core to be victorious.
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Rick Henderson: Eternal Arena
Single-player alternative to Rick Henderson — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rick Henderson.
Rick Henderson is back! Join the endless arena battle, upgrade your ship, upgrade your guns, upgrade your drones. Fight, upgrade, die, repeat.