Single-player games like Paper Planet
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Paper Planet, 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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Slime 3K: Rise Against Despot
Single-player alternative to Paper Planet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Paper Planet.
Welcome to Slime 3K, an unhinged roguelite bullet-heaven set in the Despot’s Game universe! Build a deck of crazy weapons, grow stronger and devour hordes of pink puny humans as a murderous jelly blob on a warpath of death, violence and pretzels.
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Brotato
Single-player alternative to Paper Planet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Paper Planet.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
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Genome Guardian
Single-player alternative to Paper Planet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Paper Planet.
COMBINE WEAPONS in the microscopic roguelite turret shooter with macroscopic depth. Survive 6 modes using an astounding array of turrets, perks, mutations and power-ups on this psychedelic journey to the heart of the abyss. Shmup Mode turns it into a vertical shoot 'em up!
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Apocalypse Party
Single-player alternative to Paper Planet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Paper Planet.
Apocalypse Party is a 3D top-down action Roguelike game. In this game, you will embark on a new mission to traverse through the Middle Ages and gradually master abilities, and arm yourself to become the strongest survivor through numerous choices.
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Rogue Star Rescue
Single-player alternative to Paper Planet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Paper Planet.
Bullet Hell Insanity + Tower Defense Strategy. Rogue Star Rescue is a quirky new type of rogue-like shooter. Blast your way through diverse planets while rescuing your teammates and gathering traps for your defense strategy. Play solo or online to stop the Rogue Star before it annihilates everything!
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Nova Drift
Single-player alternative to Paper Planet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Paper Planet.
Nova Drift distills the mechanical depth and strategy of an ARPG into classic arcade space combat. Control an endlessly evolving bio-mechanical ship, face legions of strange and deadly foes, and ride the wake of a dying star across the void.
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Patch Quest
Single-player alternative to Paper Planet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Paper Planet.
In a labyrinth surrounded by vicious monsters, Explorers must rely on their Lasso to survive! Capture and tame ANY monster to leap, glide, surf, tunnel and websling through a treacherous, patchwork maze. This roguelike/metroidvania seems cute, but it’s a deceptively difficult bullet-hell challenge!
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Steredenn: Binary Stars
Single-player alternative to Paper Planet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Paper Planet.
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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The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
Single-player alternative to Paper Planet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Paper Planet.
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is a randomly generated action RPG shooter with heavy Rogue-like elements. Following Isaac on his journey players will find bizarre treasures that change Isaac’s form giving him super human abilities and enabling him to fight off droves of mysterious creatures, discover secrets and fight his way to safety.
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Hades
Single-player alternative to Paper Planet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Paper Planet.
Defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash out of the Underworld in this rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre.
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Vampire Survivors
Single-player alternative to Paper Planet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Paper Planet.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!