Single-player games like Waveform
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Waveform, 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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Star Saviors
Single-player alternative to Waveform — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Waveform.
Saviors brings the best bullet hell experience you can find on Steam. Play through 18 challenging stages in this ultimate test of tactics and reflexes.
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Super Space Towers
Single-player alternative to Waveform — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Waveform.
Super Space Towers is a space 3D physics puzzle action game. You have been tasked with cleaning up the mess left by the aliens' attempts to sabotage the orbital power towers.Contain the orbs, rescue the stranded workers & escape the towers!
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Probe
Single-player alternative to Waveform — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Waveform.
A challenging 2D block breaker featuring arcade elements and a modern spin on the popular retro games. Destroy data blocks and galactic enemies using only your probe, bullets and power ups but don't lose your ball to the void. Do you have what it takes to reach the end of the universe?
- 4
Wordy Space
Single-player alternative to Waveform — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Waveform.
Type words to blast incoming space threats, upgrade your ship and powers, master different dictionary packs, and climb global or language-specific Steam leaderboards.
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Sun Blast: Star Fighter
Single-player alternative to Waveform — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Waveform.
Sun Blast is the best 3d space shooter on Steam. Earn upgrades as you fight your way through a huge seleciton of levels. Full gamepad support!
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Syder Arcade
Single-player alternative to Waveform — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Waveform.
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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Galacide
Single-player alternative to Waveform — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Waveform.
Command destructive spaceships to obliterate hordes of enemy vessels, while quickly solving puzzles to weave through networks of vibrantly colorful, adversarial machines!
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Gun Rocket
Single-player alternative to Waveform — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Waveform.
If you are not prepared for a challenge - turn back now. Gun Rocket is a 2D physics arcade game that is not for the feint of heart or the stiff of fingers. In search of adventure, you have been caught by holes in space and time. Can you escape?
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Party Hard
Single-player alternative to Waveform — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Waveform.
It's 3:00 a.m. Your neighbours are having a loud party. Stop them. Party Hard is tinyBuild's award-winning stealth strategy game about ruining parties by any means.
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Citizens of Earth
Single-player alternative to Waveform — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
As the newly elected Vice President of the World, it's your job to save the Earth by recruiting friends, family, and the local townsfolk! ...A true politician would never get his own hands dirty, after all!
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Toy Soldiers: HD
Single-player alternative to Waveform — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Waveform.
Command antique WWI Toy Soldiers in the trench-filled battlefields of Europe. Deploy an exciting arsenal of guns, artillery, flamethrowers, tanks and planes to defend your WWI toy dioramas. Take direct control of individual units or command the entire battlefield from above.
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Citizens of Space
Single-player alternative to Waveform — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The Earth is missing and it's up to you to find the pieces and solve the mystery behind its disappearance! Recruit citizens, navigate the cosmos, and battle charismatic foes in Citizens of Space!
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Citizens Unite!: Earth x Space
Single-player alternative to Waveform — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Waveform.
Unite the Citizens to save the timeline in a hilarious action-packed adventure!