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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Tri-Star
Single-player alternative to Rick Henderson — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Rick Henderson.
Tri-Star is an endless horizontal-scrolling space shooter featuring Roguelike and Roguelite elements. Blast through waves of enemies and battle against arduous bosses. Form a squadron of three unique ships from an expanding roster and equip them with upgrades as you engage in a battle for survival.
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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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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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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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Steredenn: Binary Stars
Single-player alternative to Rick Henderson — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rick Henderson.
Steredenn is a frenetic and chaotic space shooter, carved in big beautiful pixels, with insane boss battles. Embark in your ship and engage the fight against dreadful space pirates in a never-ending combat for your survival.
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Syder Arcade
Single-player alternative to Rick Henderson — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rick Henderson.
Killing zombies never gets old, but sometimes you just need a break. Get back to some serious old-school gaming with Syder Arcade! Syder Arcade is a love letter to Amiga games of the ‘90s, no coins, no upgrade grinding, just your tenacity and a motherload of alien invaders.
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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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Rick Henderson: Eternal Arena
Single-player alternative to Rick Henderson — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rick Henderson.
Join the endless arena battle. Select your pilot, upgrade your ship, upgrade your guns, upgrade your drones. Fight, upgrade, die, repeat.