Single-player games like Starship Wars
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Starship Wars, 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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Space Battle SVF
Single-player alternative to Starship Wars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starship Wars.
This game is a 3D space flight shooter. Arcade type game. It's a game to shoot a lot of missiles.
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Ghost Battalion
Single-player alternative to Starship Wars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starship Wars.
A retro Sci-Fi First Person/Third Person shooter game similar to Star Wars: Battlefront and Rogue Squadron series. The player can choose to battle the alien race and their monster creations in Single-Player or in Multiplayer mode.
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Dwarf Star
Single-player alternative to Starship Wars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starship Wars.
Dwarf Star: 16 bit inspired game where mercenary go shoot shoot on evil alien guys who were accidentally fabricated by the government. Top down space shooter with a mission based structure. However, you can do these missions in plenty of different orders with different amounts of upgrades.
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Motor Assailant
Single-player alternative to Starship Wars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Starship Wars.
Fast-paced vehicular shooter. Drive a combat vehicle of your choice, shoot your way through multiple battlefields, fight giant bosses, dodge asteroids and witness cataclysmic events.
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Galactic Patrol
Single-player alternative to Starship Wars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Starship Wars.
A lost 1998 arcade-style shooter returns! Fight through 25 levels and 300+ waves of alien attacks inspired by classic shoot-'em-ups like Space Invaders and Galaga, featuring top-down, side-scrolling, and rear-view gameplay.
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Starship Scarwolf
Single-player alternative to Starship Wars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starship Wars.
Starship Scarwolf is a 2D top-down omnidirectional shooter. As I'm a fan of vector scan games, I aimed to create an expression using only wireframe rendering. However, I couldn't achieve this with just dots and lines, so I also used fill and circle drawing functions.
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The Prowler Hell
Single-player alternative to Starship Wars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starship Wars.
Escape from the devastated land and try to survive.
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Metal Golem: First Contact
Single-player alternative to Starship Wars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starship Wars.
A 3rd person, Mech battle Arena, Choose between 6 soul crushing arenas and 10 stages to host your last stand against the Kaydiest. You Vs. the Swarm, To the death! And compete real time with other players scores from around the world Via the online leaderboard.