Single-player games like Space Bandit
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Space Bandit, 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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Tower of Guns
Single-player alternative to Space Bandit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Bandit.
Tower of Guns is a fast paced first-person-shooter for the twitch gamer... with a few randomized elements to keep it fresh with each playthrough. It's a short burst "Lunch Break FPS"... not unlike Binding of Isaac mixed with Doom 2. Tower of Guns was made by a guy named Joe (with his brother Mike composing the music).
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Neon Chrome
Single-player alternative to Space Bandit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Bandit.
A masterful combination of top-down shooter and endless replayability with procedural levels. Blast your way through walls & enemies with guns and cybernetic abilities. Install perks from cyber chambers and upgrade your character stats after each death. Can you stop the Overseer?
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Heat Signature
Single-player alternative to Space Bandit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Bandit.
Heat Signature is a game from the developers of Gunpoint where you break into spaceships, make terrible mistakes, and think of clever ways out of them. You take a mission, fly to the target ship, sneak inside, and make clever use of your gadgets to distract, ambush and take out the crew.
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CRYPTARK
Single-player alternative to Space Bandit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Bandit.
Cryptark is a 2D sci-fi shooter where you take on the role of a heavily armed privateer seeking to earn government contracts by boarding deadly alien space-hulks. It's up to you to strategize a plan of attack, pick an equipment loadout, and destroy the central core to be victorious.
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REPLIKATOR
Single-player alternative to Space Bandit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Bandit.
In this twin stick roguelite shooter, you play as one of the galactic mercenaries, explore a mysterious scientific complex and uncover the secret of the REPLIKATOR project.
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KILL KNIGHT
Single-player alternative to Space Bandit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Space Bandit.
KILL KNIGHT is an ultra-responsive arcade-inspired isometric action shooter. Condemned to eternal sufferance, deep within the voids of an eldritch arena, you must wield an arsenal of devastating weaponry to obliterate swarms of otherworldly horrors - and MASTER THE DEMON WITHIN.
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Teleglitch: Die More Edition
Single-player alternative to Space Bandit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Bandit.
In a cold, dark future dominated by mega-corporations, a small lonely planet on the edge of habitable space is the site of a shadowy research facility specializing in necrotic tissue reactivation. You are a scientist who has suddenly awoken to the realization that you are the lone survivor.
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Blacksea Odyssey
Single-player alternative to Space Bandit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Bandit.
Enter the Blacksea Odyssey, a violent top-down rogue-lite space shoot ‘em up RPG brimming with colossal creatures and runic technologies. Explore dangerous, interstellar spacescapes as you hunt enormous space-behemoths with a harpoon and rune-infused spears.
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Hotline Miami
Single-player alternative to Space Bandit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Bandit.
Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat.