Single-player games like Penetrator
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Penetrator, 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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Earthion
Single-player alternative to Penetrator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Penetrator.
Earthion is a side-scrolling space shooter developed natively for 16-bit systems. Guide space fighter pilot Azusa Takanashi in her fight to repel the alien invaders and save planet Earth.
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Desert Child
Single-player alternative to Penetrator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Penetrator.
You are a hungry, young hoverbike racer who needs to get off Earth before it E-X-P-L-O-D-E-S. Hunt bounties, throw races, and do whatever you can to get to Mars and win the Grand Prix.
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Altitude
Single-player alternative to Penetrator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Penetrator.
Now Available on PC, Mac and Linux!
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Blazing Chrome
Single-player alternative to Penetrator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Penetrator.
In Blazing Chrome, bring your best pal and kick some metal butts to free the humankind while enjoying a classic run’n’gun, fully loaded with action and exciting fights!
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Syder Arcade
Single-player alternative to Penetrator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Penetrator.
Killing zombies never gets old, but sometimes you just need a break. Get back to some serious old-school gaming with Syder Arcade! Syder Arcade is a love letter to Amiga games of the ‘90s, no coins, no upgrade grinding, just your tenacity and a motherload of alien invaders.
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BallisticNG
Single-player alternative to Penetrator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Penetrator.
BallisticNG is a high speed, all thrills anti-gravity combat racer and open modding environment developed as a tribute to old school classics such as Wipeout, Rollcage and Jet Moto.
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Ring Runner: Flight of the Sages
Single-player alternative to Penetrator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Penetrator.
Ring Runner combines the fast-paced action of space combat with the rich story and skill variety of an RPG.Trek across the universe in a 30 hour long story-driven campaign based on a companion Sci Fi novel, or challenge 6 scenarios alone, cooperatively, or competitively through local or online multiplayer.
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DARIUSBURST Chronicle Saviours
Single-player alternative to Penetrator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Penetrator.
DARIUSBURST Chronicle Saviours is the latest installment in Taito's DARIUS series of arcade-style shooting games. Blast hordes of alien sea-monsters, and blaze your own trail through branching environments.
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Krush Kill ‘N Destroy 2: Krossfire
Single-player alternative to Penetrator — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Krush Kill 'N Destroy 2: Krossfire is a fast and furious post-apocalyptic real-time strategy game where you have to be quick or be dead. Play as one of three unique factions in the struggle to seek out and conquer oil fields to fuel your army.
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The Dame Was Loaded
Single-player alternative to Penetrator — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
An adventure set in the world of a 1940s private eye. Dames are trouble, but trouble is your business. In a sleazy world of corrupt officials, stolen diamonds, lust and murder, you must solve the case and stay alive.
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Radical Rex
Single-player alternative to Penetrator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Penetrator.
Radical Rex is a fire-breathing Tyrannosaurus on a skateboard who has to save the dinosaur race under the spell of an evil creature.
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Nightshade
Single-player alternative to Penetrator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Penetrator.
The shadows of doom grow long as the ancient Egyptian villain Sutekh envelops Metro City with a wave of crime. But Sutekh's seedy underworld is about to be infiltrated by a superhero unlike the world has even seen. A superhero who can melt into the darkness like a phantom.
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Power Punch II
Single-player alternative to Penetrator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Penetrator.
It's the year 2006. You're Mark "Tough Guy" Tyler and you've just defended your your Heavyweight title from the 9th consecutive time. After demolishing the best boxers on the planet. It's now time to face-off with the best in the Universe.
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Alien Earth
Single-player alternative to Penetrator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Penetrator.
The evil Raksha have taken over the Earth. They hunt humans for sport - and you're next! Can the hunted become the hunter....?
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DethKarz
Single-player alternative to Penetrator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Penetrator.
You're one of the elite racers chosen to compete at exotic locations around the world and beyond. Strap yourself into a fusion-powered racing machine for an explosive and exhilarating futuristic racing experience.
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Bop'N Wrestle
Single-player alternative to Penetrator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Penetrator.
Grapple your way to the top as Gorgeous Greg in this colorful classic, hailed as one of the first great pro wrestling games. BOP'N WRESTLE puts you in the ring with 10 of the meanest, baddest, biggest, toughest, ugliest pro wrestlers ever to fly off a turnbuckle!