Single-player games like PewPew!
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to PewPew!, 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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Super Star Path
Single-player alternative to PewPew! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with PewPew!.
Classic color match puzzle meets space shoot'em up action! Hop into your spaceship, open a path through huge waves of aliens and other hazards, and face intense boss battles!
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CYGNI: All Guns Blazing
Single-player alternative to PewPew! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with PewPew!.
An unrelenting onslaught of eye-popping visuals, ear bursting soundscapes and mind-melting action makes CYGNI the vanguard for the next generation of shoot-em ups. Outgunned, outmanned and out on your own, plunge into a sky full of hell in a last-ditch battle for survival.
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Pixel Galaxy
Single-player alternative to PewPew! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with PewPew!.
A non-shooting shoot 'em up where you must grow, make friends, and survive together.
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Polygon Attack
Single-player alternative to PewPew! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with PewPew!.
Break through unlimited waves of enemies and fight unpredictable bosses!
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Waves
Single-player alternative to PewPew! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with PewPew!.
Waves is an Arcade Twin-Stick Shooter that's all about High Scores. Build your combo and drop bombs in pursuit of Leaderboard dominance over seven game-modes!
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LUFTRAUSERS
Single-player alternative to PewPew! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with PewPew!.
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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Switch 'N' Shoot
Single-player alternative to PewPew! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with PewPew!.
Endless arcade action with just ONE button - Switch directions whenever you shoot!
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Beat Hazard
Single-player alternative to PewPew! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with PewPew!.
Experience your music collection like never before with this intense music driven arcade shooter. Each of your songs will have its own unique ebb and flow based on the music.
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Beat The Moles
Single-player alternative to PewPew! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with PewPew!.
Beat The Moles is an arcade game where you have to hammer at the moles that hide and sometimes crawl out of their holes.
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Hover Ship
Single-player alternative to PewPew! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with PewPew!.
Hover Ship is an arcade game in which you have to control a floating ship on an obstacle course, collect coins and set new records.
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Asteroids Belt: Try to Survive!
Single-player alternative to PewPew! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with PewPew!.
Asteroids Belt is an arcade game where you have to fly through the asteroid belt in a spaceship, destroying them along the way.
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Infected Town
Single-player alternative to PewPew! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with PewPew!.
You are a special purpose soldier and your goal is to destroy some settlement, which is inhabited by a bunch of sorcerers.
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ZombieVan Drive
Single-player alternative to PewPew! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with PewPew!.
ZombieVan Drive is an arcade survival game in which you have to drive ZombieVan to exterminate zombies on the road.
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The Road to Gelendzhik Palace
Single-player alternative to PewPew! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Simulation with PewPew!.
The Road to Gelendzhik Palace - don't let your enemies enter the domain!
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Contrast Tunnel
Single-player alternative to PewPew! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with PewPew!.
Contrast Tunnel is a first-person runner-style arcade game.
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Crash Race
Single-player alternative to PewPew! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with PewPew!.
Crash Race is High speeds, abrupt stops and unexpected maneuvers are what awaits you.