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Single-player games like Paper Planet

Below are 13 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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    Berzerk: Recharged — Steam game cover

    Berzerk: Recharged

    Single-player alternative to Paper Planet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Paper Planet.

    Blast your way through an endless maze inhabited by deadly robots and their invulnerable, menacing master Evil Otto. Tag in a friend in local co-op to help you survive this twin-stick revival of an arcade classic.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Voidigo — Steam game cover

    Voidigo

    Single-player alternative to Paper Planet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Paper Planet.

    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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    Mega City Force — Steam game cover

    Mega City Force

    Single-player alternative to Paper Planet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Paper Planet.

    Retrowave Action Roguelike featuring tough agents battling crime to the electrifying music of artists like Droid Bishop, Timecop1983, and more! Choose your agent and dive into hardcore action against enemies and bosses, utilizing a vast arsenal and special abilities that will define your playstyle

    2023ActionIndie14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Devader — Steam game cover

    Devader

    Single-player alternative to Paper Planet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Paper Planet.

    Devader is an intense 90's-style twin-stick shooter, complete with crazy old-school bosses, powerful strategic abilities and multiple endings. Upgrade your robot with nukes, shields, turrets and more to exterminate the relentless invaders.

    2019ActionStrategyIndie7.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Destropolis — Steam game cover

    Destropolis

    Single-player alternative to Paper Planet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Paper Planet.

    Destropolis is a top-down shooter game with a fully destructible environment, hundreds of enemies and nuclear explosions. Fight a countless swarm of enemies. Tear them to pieces with bullets, lasers and explosions. Destroy as many of them as you can before they overwhelm you...

    2020ActionIndieRPG5.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Steredenn: Binary Stars — Steam game cover

    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.

    2015ActionIndie12.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Rogue Star Rescue — Steam game cover

    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!

    2021ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Nuclear Throne — Steam game cover

    Nuclear Throne

    Single-player alternative to Paper Planet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Paper Planet.

    Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?

    2015ActionIndieRPG11.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth — Steam game cover

    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.

    2014Action14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Hades — Steam game cover

    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.

    2020ActionIndieRPG24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Vampire Survivors — Steam game cover

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Brotato — Steam game cover

    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.

    2023ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    TD Tower Defense — Steam game cover

    TD Tower Defense

    Single-player alternative to Paper Planet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Paper Planet.

    Build your towers according to the enmey you are facing in the wave. Upgrade your turrets to increase range, damage or rewards. Each enemy wave will be random and increases in speed and damage resistance. How far can you go!

    2023ActionCasual0.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →