Single-player games like BroodStar
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to BroodStar, 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 BroodStar — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with BroodStar.
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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Blast'N Bounty
Single-player alternative to BroodStar — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with BroodStar.
Blast’N Bounty is a vertical scrolling shoot’em up featuring 8 stages players can tackle in the order of their choosing. Cruise through a crazy solar system in a mix of pixel art and low poly 3D with action that’s easy to learn but tough to master!
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Space War: Infinity
Single-player alternative to BroodStar — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with BroodStar.
Vertical semi-procedural shmup with upgrades, real-time enemy waves, and infinite replayability. Level up your ship, unlock 20+ weapons, defeat 5 bosses, and survive endless bullet-hell combat.
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Void Scrappers
Single-player alternative to BroodStar — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with BroodStar.
Blast hordes of alien ships into junk. Collect the scrap to upgrade your ship into an unstoppable force of destruction. Unlock new characters and weapons and upgrade your stats between runs.
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Steredenn: Binary Stars
Single-player alternative to BroodStar — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with BroodStar.
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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Akka Arrh
Single-player alternative to BroodStar — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with BroodStar.
Akka Arrh is a modern take on a scrapped project from the 1980s, providing players with a fast-paced, addictive, arcade shooter experience and psychedelic visuals. Protect your life rings as you chain together combos and go for a high score!
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Stellar Interface
Single-player alternative to BroodStar — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with BroodStar.
Run through the universe in this rogue-like-ish space-shooter. Discover the numerous perks/consumables and their synergistic effects. Explore the randomly-generated galaxy to find merchants, unlock spacecrafts, collect Cartridges and checkmark your kills of the various galactic overlords.
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Peace Data
Single-player alternative to BroodStar — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with BroodStar.
Peace Data — hard "Roguelike" game, in which you have to play for Bitard, saving Rusland from the tyranny of the authorities that destroyed the opposition and led the country to ruin, making slaves of citizens.
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Monolith
Single-player alternative to BroodStar — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with BroodStar.
A classical science fiction point and click adventure which takes you into a deep story and murky atmosphere, while solving logical puzzles. Accompany Tessa Carter and her talking robot as she finds out about herself and searches for a way to survive.
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Space Invaders Extreme
Single-player alternative to BroodStar — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with BroodStar.
The critically acclaimed update to the Space Invaders franchise has arrived to invade Steam with greatly improved graphics and audio! Packed with pulsing, vibrant visuals enhanced further by interactive sound. The invaders have evolved, the question is: can you keep up?
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Space Aliens Invaders
Single-player alternative to BroodStar — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with BroodStar.
modernized old time classic alien shooter game