Single-player games like The Long Sky
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to The Long Sky, 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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Space Dogfight
Single-player alternative to The Long Sky — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Long Sky.
"Space Dogfight" is a single-player fast-paced flying shooting game that can be played with a mouse (does not support gamepad). In 15 minutes, players need to drive a spaceship to fight enemies on a randomly generated space battlefield. The game can be customized The number of AI.
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Cyber Driver
Single-player alternative to The Long Sky — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Long Sky.
Cyber Driver is a small cyberpunk-style arcade flight game. It is fast, easy, tight, and repeatable, with elements of collection and challenges. Your only goal in the game is to constantly break the scores you have created before in the unique cyber atmosphere.
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LUFTRAUSERS
Single-player alternative to The Long Sky — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Long Sky.
The skies are aflame and the seas will overflow with wreckage in Vlambeer’s stylish arcade shooter LUFTRAUSERS! Take to the skies in customized fighter planes to battle battleships, submarines, and rival aces for glory, honor, and high scores.
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SPINGUN
Single-player alternative to The Long Sky — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Long Sky.
SPINGUN is a "manic two-button arcade shooter". Two buttons. One spaceship. Zero chance to survive.
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Ikaruga
Single-player alternative to The Long Sky — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Long Sky.
Shoot! Dodge! and... Get Hit!? "Ikaruga" is a vertical shoot 'em up that features an unique polarity-switching gameplay. Switch the ship's polarity and "get hit and absorb" enemy bullets! Achieve High Score with the chain bonus!
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Syder Arcade
Single-player alternative to The Long Sky — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Long Sky.
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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Sora
Single-player alternative to The Long Sky — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Long Sky.
From Orange Juice comes a shoot'em'up starring the lone enhanced human, Sora. The sequel of the high-speed shoot'em'up "Suguri", with improved game system and graphics.
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AFTERBURN
Single-player alternative to The Long Sky — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Long Sky.
Your daily dose of air combat. Super easy to pick up, minimum requirements and vibrant visuals. Setup your aircraft and jump into action!
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Bird
Single-player alternative to The Long Sky — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Long Sky.
You are a bird, you are free in this small place, but you can't get out, all you can do is fly around.
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Flying Sword
Single-player alternative to The Long Sky — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Long Sky.
"Flying Sword" is a flight game that uses only mouse to play (Play for 10 minutes each time). In the game you need to control the sword to fly and collect 'aura stone' as much as possible.
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Float Night
Single-player alternative to The Long Sky — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Long Sky.
Float Night is a small sandbox game that is easy to collect resources, simple to build, no craft, and sustainable.
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Cover Sky
Single-player alternative to The Long Sky — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Long Sky.
Robots launched an attack on humans! You must stop them! "Cover Sky" is a fast-paced (small map) single-player shooting game that can switch between first and third person perspective at any time. It features fast start, end in fifteen minutes, customizable AI count(20 , 30, 40), dynamic environment, and multiple weapons.
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Vaporwave Drift
Single-player alternative to The Long Sky — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Long Sky.
"Vaporwave Drift" is a single (no AI) driving drift game, It's fast, easy, tight, and repeatable, with elements of collection and challenges. In the game you can choose the track you like to drift and challenge the global leaderboard(Total Laps).
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Retro Drift
Single-player alternative to The Long Sky — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Long Sky.
"Retro Drift" is a small arcade drift game that can be played with one hand. The game advocates fast-paced play, a 10-second start, and a ten-minute game. The number of AI can be set, which is suitable for a game anytime, anywhere.
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Vaporwave World
Single-player alternative to The Long Sky — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Long Sky.
"Vaporwave World" is a simple and casual buiding game that has three art packs (Egypt, Roman, 1980s). You can customize the lights in the game, and you will automatically get various types of buiding items over time.