Single-player games like ASTRO: The Beginning
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to ASTRO: The Beginning, 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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Syder Arcade
Single-player alternative to ASTRO: The Beginning — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with ASTRO: The Beginning.
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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Starr Mazer: DSP
Single-player alternative to ASTRO: The Beginning — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with ASTRO: The Beginning.
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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SATAZIUS
Single-player alternative to ASTRO: The Beginning — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with ASTRO: The Beginning.
The year is 2051. Location: SATAZIUS, a long-abandoned planet. The cruiser Agano was on patrol when it was attacked and stricken by a confederacy of space pirates that had established a base on SATAZIUS. The pirates attacked the Agano intending to steal the assault ship ‘Trafalgar’ that was stowed aboard the Agano, but the Trafalgar made...
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Steredenn: Binary Stars
Single-player alternative to ASTRO: The Beginning — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with ASTRO: The Beginning.
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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Enemy Mind
Single-player alternative to ASTRO: The Beginning — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with ASTRO: The Beginning.
A retro shooter with a new power: the power to become any ship.Lost in the depths of space, you are a being of pure psychic energy with the uncanny power to take over and control anything you see in order to survive.Built for PC, Enemy Mind lets you battle your way through 70+ waves of challenging enemies.
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DRAINUS
Single-player alternative to ASTRO: The Beginning — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with ASTRO: The Beginning.
This is a side-scrolling shooting game in which you take control of the "Drainus", the Kharlal Empire's most cutting-edge fighter with the ability to absorb energy bullets, and take down the enemy ships zipping through space.
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R-Type Dimensions EX
Single-player alternative to ASTRO: The Beginning — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with ASTRO: The Beginning.
R-Type and R-Type II, the legendary coin-op space shooters, are now together on Steam!
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Earthion
Single-player alternative to ASTRO: The Beginning — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with ASTRO: The Beginning.
Earthion is a side-scrolling space shooter developed natively for 16-bit systems. Guide space fighter pilot Azusa Takanashi in her fight to repel the alien invaders and save planet Earth.
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Keeplanet
Single-player alternative to ASTRO: The Beginning — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with ASTRO: The Beginning.
KEEPLANET is an arcade time-killer, standing up for people from the tiny planet in the middle of nowhere. Play as a World Commander, develop the planet, keep your inhabitants alive and protect them from aliens, space debris or even meteor rain.