Single-player games like Insect Swarm
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Insect Swarm, 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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Tesla vs Lovecraft
Single-player alternative to Insect Swarm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Insect Swarm.
Tesla vs Lovecraft is an intense top-down twin stick arena shooter from the creators of Crimsonland and Neon Chrome. Play as the enigmatic inventor Nikola Tesla harnessing the static energy to power up Tesla-Mech and give the lovecraftian nightmares a lesson in horror!
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Mech Havoc
Single-player alternative to Insect Swarm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Insect Swarm.
Sandbox of destruction. Billion different ways to build your mech. Feel the weight and impact of obliteration in this modern old school mech combat sim.
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God's Trigger
Single-player alternative to Insect Swarm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Insect Swarm.
Slay enemies with speed and precision in an over-the-top show of blood and explosions. Play solo or with others, make split-second decisions, dodge bullets, and use weapons and abilities to inflict violence in the most graphic way possible.
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Uragun
Single-player alternative to Insect Swarm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Insect Swarm.
You are a friendly-but-deadly Mech on a journey searching for your missing pilot in this action-packed roguelite shooter. Choose your missions and rewards, research skills, equip expansions, mod your weapons, install plugins, customize your looks and stylishly cut your way through hordes of evil AI.
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Livelock
Single-player alternative to Insect Swarm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Insect Swarm.
Livelock is a co-operative top-down shooter where you play solo or with up to two allies to break the cycle of infinite war between machines. As one of the remaining Capital Intellects, your role is to unlock Eden and revive humanity.
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Hive Jump 2: Survivors
Single-player alternative to Insect Swarm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Insect Swarm.
Become an agent of vengeance in this bullet-heaven action roguelite! You are the lone survivor of your squad, on an alien planet with just your weapon, a jetpack, and the courage to keep fighting. Kill off alien swarms and transform their valuable guts into explosive upgrades and vital utilities.
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Sektori
Single-player alternative to Insect Swarm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Insect Swarm.
Sektori is an intense, fast paced twin-stick shooter infused with hard hitting techno music. A game where the high-adrenaline gameplay, visuals, and music come together to transport you into another state of consciousness.
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AIRHEART - Tales of broken Wings
Single-player alternative to Insect Swarm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Insect Swarm.
Airheart is a dieselpunk airplane action rogue like game, where every colorful level is built on top of the previous one, all the way up to the stratosphere. Welcome to Granaria, a flying city in the clouds. Meet Amelia - a young pilot and fisherwoman wishing to reach the abundant world's edge.
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Loot Tycoon
Single-player alternative to Insect Swarm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Insect Swarm.
You are not the Hero—you are the Merchant who bleeds them dry! Dive into a unique mix of Hack & Slash and Shop Simulation. Farm dungeons with fully automated combat, loot legendary artifacts, and crash the market. Build your shop from a dirty rug to a medieval monopoly.