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Single-player games like Project Starship X

Below are 19 single-player Steam games similar to Project Starship X, 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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    Steredenn: Binary Stars — Steam game cover

    Steredenn: Binary Stars

    Single-player alternative to Project Starship X — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Project Starship X.

    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.

    2015ActionIndie12.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Voidigo — Steam game cover

    Voidigo

    Single-player alternative to Project Starship X — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Project Starship X.

    A vividly animated action roguelite focused on boss hunting. Unleash an array of diverse weapons and powerups to combat the corruption of the Void.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Crackpet Show — Steam game cover

    The Crackpet Show

    Single-player alternative to Project Starship X — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Project Starship X.

    The Crackpet Show is an action-packed rogue-lite shoot’em-up about mutated animals that fight in a bizarre TV show, crushing their opponents with a variety of weapons. Choose your beastie, gear ‘em up, and go kill your enemies in the name of fame and sweet sponsorship deals!

    2022ActionIndieAdventure16.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Colt Canyon — Steam game cover

    Colt Canyon

    Single-player alternative to Project Starship X — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Project Starship X.

    Shoot your way through a hostile canyon full of hidden treasures, weapons, obstacles and all kinds of bloodthirsty scum! Colt Canyon is a stylish pixel art shooter with roguelike elements and real-time combat where you save your kidnapped partner from the ruthless bandits.

    2020ActionIndieRPG14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    GONNER2 — Steam game cover

    GONNER2

    Single-player alternative to Project Starship X — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Project Starship X.

    In this sequel to GoNNER: Journey your way through deep dark chaotic places with unimaginable sparks of colour as you go on a mission to help Death rid a mysterious presence from her lair. Battle crazy bosses, lose your head (a lot), in this messy, cute, fast-paced procedurally-generated platformer.

    2020ActionIndie12.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    30XX — Steam game cover

    30XX

    Single-player alternative to Project Starship X — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Project Starship X.

    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.

    2023ActionIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Wally and the FANTASTIC PREDATORS — Steam game cover

    Wally and the FANTASTIC PREDATORS

    Single-player alternative to Project Starship X — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Project Starship X.

    Your best friend wants to cheer you up, so he tries his best to make a dungeon for you to explore. Explore his wholesome, weird-as-heck, scrappy rogue-lite oozing with charm and humor for 1-2 Players.

    2019ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Blazing Beaks — Steam game cover

    Blazing Beaks

    Single-player alternative to Project Starship X — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Project Starship X.

    Roguelite - where too much greediness can be fatal. A colorful world with armed birds blazing their way through piles of mutants, monsters and creepy creatures. Lots of mysteries to unravel, secrets to discover and levels to explore.

    2019ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    ZeroRanger — Steam game cover

    ZeroRanger

    Single-player alternative to Project Starship X — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Project Starship X.

    This is the story of a fighter who wanted to become...

    2018ActionIndie11.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Crypt of the NecroDancer — Steam game cover

    Crypt of the NecroDancer

    Single-player alternative to Project Starship X — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Project Starship X.

    Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!

    2015ActionIndieRPG2.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Touhou Mystia's Izakaya — Steam game cover

    Touhou Mystia's Izakaya

    Single-player alternative to Project Starship X — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Project Starship X.

    A brand new pixel art restaurant simulator based on the Touhou Project! Play as Mystia, the owner of a small izakaya. Collect ingredients by day, cater to the customers by night, learn recipes from familiar characters, and become the best izakaya owner in all of Gensokyo!

    2021IndieSimulationRPG4.19 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Project Starship — Steam game cover

    Project Starship

    Single-player alternative to Project Starship X — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Project Starship X.

    Project Starship is an arcade bullet-hell with random mechanics. No match will ever be the same. Who will you be? Garret or Gwen? Will you save the world from the mighty cthulhu?

    2016ActionIndieCasual2.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Reset 1-1 — Steam game cover

    Reset 1-1

    Single-player alternative to Project Starship X — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Project Starship X.

    The world has ended, Demons have risen to conquer the uninhabited and flourishing nature outside.  It's your turn, with your unknown identity, to find your path for a new beginning.  Let's not beat about the bush here. Reset 1-1 is everything you loved about the late 80's/early 90's. It's a blast from the past, with a fresh spin.

    2016Indie0.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Red Death — Steam game cover

    Red Death

    Single-player alternative to Project Starship X — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Project Starship X.

    Red Death is a vertical shooter, Prologue of the series Project Starship!

    2017ActionIndie0.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Null Drifter — Steam game cover

    Null Drifter

    Single-player alternative to Project Starship X — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Project Starship X.

    Null Drifter is a 1BIT LO-FI shooter, a journey into the void inside a computer simulation! Lose yourself in this frenetic yet chill experience!

    2019ActionIndieSimulation3.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Pity Pit — Steam game cover

    Pity Pit

    Single-player alternative to Project Starship X — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Project Starship X.

    Dig Dug meets Downwell! Dig your doom, save Gwendoline from the Devil Johnson! 2D platforming, digging, ores, crafting, bombs!!

    2020ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Pixel Survivor - Pixel Up! — Steam game cover

    Pixel Survivor - Pixel Up!

    Single-player alternative to Project Starship X — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Project Starship X.

    A pixel SURVIVOR ROGUE-LITE that will give you a hypnotic addiction! You do all the usual "Survivor" stuff, but this time you'll have to hire a therapist in order to stop playing!

    2023ActionIndieEarly Access0.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Z-Warp — Steam game cover

    Z-Warp

    Single-player alternative to Project Starship X — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Project Starship X.

    Z-Warp is an intense vertical shoot’em up presented in retro pixel art style, featuring frenetic arcade-inspired action where blasters, bombs and KILLER specials are your only allies.

    2022ActionIndie6.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Feeble Light — Steam game cover

    Feeble Light

    Single-player alternative to Project Starship X — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Project Starship X.

    Blast off as a little star trying to rid the cosmos of angry celestial beings in Feeble Light, a 3-tone pixel art shoot’em up where minimalistic presentation makes way for precision controls and fluid animation!

    2023ActionIndie4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →