Single-player games like Pyro Fighters
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Pyro Fighters, 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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Blazing Chrome
Single-player alternative to Pyro Fighters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pyro Fighters.
In Blazing Chrome, bring your best pal and kick some metal butts to free the humankind while enjoying a classic run’n’gun, fully loaded with action and exciting fights!
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The Bug Butcher
Single-player alternative to Pyro Fighters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pyro Fighters.
A fast paced action shooter inspired by the arcade classic Super Pang! Use a wide selection of weapons and powerups to tear through increasingly challenging levels.
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Fury Unleashed
Single-player alternative to Pyro Fighters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pyro Fighters.
Shoot your way through the pages of an ever-changing comic book in this fast-paced roguelike. Play solo, in local or online co-op, expand your weaponry, and upgrade your hero with each run. All that to find out why has your creator lost his faith in you and to prove him wrong.
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LUFTRAUSERS
Single-player alternative to Pyro Fighters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pyro Fighters.
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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Cuphead
Single-player alternative to Pyro Fighters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pyro Fighters.
Cuphead is a classic run and gun action game heavily focused on boss battles. Inspired by cartoons of the 1930s, the visuals and audio are painstakingly created with the same techniques of the era, i.e. traditional hand drawn cel animation, watercolor backgrounds, and original jazz recordings.
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Hell is Other Demons
Single-player alternative to Pyro Fighters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pyro Fighters.
Hell is Other Demons is an action-platform shooter, with Roguelite elements. Explore a sprawling, hand-crafted world full of demons, insanely over-the-top boss fights, and a heavy synthwave soundtrack.
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Bleed 2
Single-player alternative to Pyro Fighters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pyro Fighters.
Bleed 2 is a relentless arcade action game featuring air-dodging, bullet-reflecting, and tons of bosses. Now with randomly-generated levels and daily challenges, too!
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Super Hydorah
Single-player alternative to Pyro Fighters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pyro Fighters.
Super Hydorah is a nonlinear horizontal shoot’ em up designed to offer a challenging experience, sublimating the richness of traditional shmup classics. Face the menace of the Meroptians aboard the Delta Lance, alone or with your friends in this game with direct action and nostalgic art.
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You are Peter Shorts
Single-player alternative to Pyro Fighters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pyro Fighters.
You are PETER SHORTS! You have been captured and taken to a secret cloning facility. Can you escape with your newly-cloned brethren?
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Tres-Bashers
Single-player alternative to Pyro Fighters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pyro Fighters.
Tres-Bashers is a 2D monster-bashing adventure featuring a big interconnected map full of cryptids, secrets, and more! Find 40 different monster types and whack 'em with your baseball bat!
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Space Cat
Single-player alternative to Pyro Fighters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pyro Fighters.
Space Cat is a 2D arcade-style platformer where the player(s) must collect as much loot as possible while surviving the asteroid terrain, which is constantly being destroyed and regenerated by hazards. There is also a side-scrolling Adventure Mode, and a VS Battle Mode.
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Binky's Trash Service
Single-player alternative to Pyro Fighters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pyro Fighters.
Storm evil lairs... and take out the trash! Play as BINKY in a perilous, precision platformer where you run a garbage collection service for EVIL LAIRS! Optimize your speedrun strats and empty all the trash in 15 unique and colorful mini-Metroidvania maps!