Single-player games like Z-Warp
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Z-Warp, 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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Syder Arcade
Single-player alternative to Z-Warp — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Z-Warp.
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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Ikaruga
Single-player alternative to Z-Warp — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Z-Warp.
Shoot! Dodge! and... Get Hit!? "Ikaruga" is a vertical shoot 'em up that features an unique polarity-switching gameplay. Switch the ship's polarity and "get hit and absorb" enemy bullets! Achieve High Score with the chain bonus!
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Astebreed: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Z-Warp — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Z-Warp.
Climb into the cockpit of an otherworldly war machine and fly into battle against a horrifying alien race bent on eradicating humanity to preserve their own civilization.
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Earthion
Single-player alternative to Z-Warp — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Z-Warp.
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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Space Invaders Extreme
Single-player alternative to Z-Warp — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Z-Warp.
The critically acclaimed update to the Space Invaders franchise has arrived to invade Steam with greatly improved graphics and audio! Packed with pulsing, vibrant visuals enhanced further by interactive sound. The invaders have evolved, the question is: can you keep up?
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Starr Mazer: DSP
Single-player alternative to Z-Warp — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Z-Warp.
The UNFP's been kicked in the teeth by a G'ell invasion force and their last and only hope is a planetary outpost and its fleet of experimental DSP MkI Forward Assault Fighters and anyone marshal enough to strap into one and forcefully accept some apologies.
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Waves
Single-player alternative to Z-Warp — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Z-Warp.
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 Z-Warp — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Z-Warp.
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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Project Starship
Single-player alternative to Z-Warp — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Z-Warp.
Project Starship is an arcade bullet-hell with random mechanics. No match will ever be the same. Who will you be? Garret or Gwen? Will you save the world from the mighty cthulhu?
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Reset 1-1
Single-player alternative to Z-Warp — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Z-Warp.
The world has ended, Demons have risen to conquer the uninhabited and flourishing nature outside. It's your turn, with your unknown identity, to find your path for a new beginning. Let's not beat about the bush here. Reset 1-1 is everything you loved about the late 80's/early 90's. It's a blast from the past, with a fresh spin.
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Red Death
Single-player alternative to Z-Warp — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Z-Warp.
Red Death is a vertical shooter, Prologue of the series Project Starship!
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Null Drifter
Single-player alternative to Z-Warp — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Z-Warp.
Null Drifter is a 1BIT LO-FI shooter, a journey into the void inside a computer simulation! Lose yourself in this frenetic yet chill experience!
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Project Starship X
Single-player alternative to Z-Warp — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Z-Warp.
The Rogue-Lite shooter where you CRASH-KILL comical abominations! Pilot your spaceship as Swagthulhu in this original and wacky "Lovecraftian Parody"!
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Pity Pit
Single-player alternative to Z-Warp — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Z-Warp.
Dig Dug meets Downwell! Dig your doom, save Gwendoline from the Devil Johnson! 2D platforming, digging, ores, crafting, bombs!!
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Pixel Survivor - Pixel Up!
Single-player alternative to Z-Warp — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Z-Warp.
A pixel SURVIVOR ROGUE-LITE that will give you a hypnotic addiction! You do all the usual "Survivor" stuff, but this time you'll have to hire a therapist in order to stop playing!
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Feeble Light
Single-player alternative to Z-Warp — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Z-Warp.
Blast off as a little star trying to rid the cosmos of angry celestial beings in Feeble Light, a 3-tone pixel art shoot’em up where minimalistic presentation makes way for precision controls and fluid animation!