Single-player games like STURMWIND EX
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to STURMWIND EX, 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 STURMWIND EX — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with STURMWIND EX.
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 STURMWIND EX — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with STURMWIND EX.
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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Enemy Mind
Single-player alternative to STURMWIND EX — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with STURMWIND EX.
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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R-Type Dimensions EX
Single-player alternative to STURMWIND EX — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with STURMWIND EX.
R-Type and R-Type II, the legendary coin-op space shooters, are now together on Steam!
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DARIUSBURST Chronicle Saviours
Single-player alternative to STURMWIND EX — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with STURMWIND EX.
DARIUSBURST Chronicle Saviours is the latest installment in Taito's DARIUS series of arcade-style shooting games. Blast hordes of alien sea-monsters, and blaze your own trail through branching environments.
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Earthion
Single-player alternative to STURMWIND EX — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with STURMWIND EX.
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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Astebreed: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to STURMWIND EX — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with STURMWIND EX.
Climb into the cockpit of an otherworldly war machine and fly into battle against a horrifying alien race bent on eradicating humanity to preserve their own civilization.
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Ikaruga
Single-player alternative to STURMWIND EX — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with STURMWIND EX.
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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Airline Tycoon 2
Single-player alternative to STURMWIND EX — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Run a modern airline, design unique airplanes and grow a run-down carrier into a globally recognized company that passengers practically beg to fly.