Single-player games like Humans Are Useless
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Humans Are Useless, 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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Invaders from the Third Dimension
Single-player alternative to Humans Are Useless — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Humans Are Useless.
A retro space shooter with a twist - now you can rotate your ship and aim diagonally at enemies, adding a whole new dimension to the shoot 'em up genre.
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Zarlor Mercenary
Single-player alternative to Humans Are Useless — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Humans Are Useless.
Top-down shooter action for the Atari Lynx handheld console. WANTED: Hot gun for hire. Travel to several exotic and dangerous places. Discover several exotic and dangerous aliens and kill them. Kill lots. For cash. Buy more weapons and kill again.
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Neon Invaders
Single-player alternative to Humans Are Useless — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Casual with Humans Are Useless.
Neon Invaders will take you back to your gaming roots with its constant action and relentlessly brutal enemies. Absorb enemy shots of the same colour to trigger a flurry of fire to decimate the alien invaders. Dodge and Match your way to victory through 40 levels and 5 difficulty settings.
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Retro Wars
Single-player alternative to Humans Are Useless — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Casual with Humans Are Useless.
Take on an entire army in this 80s inspired retro top down vertical scrolling shooter. Be a one man war machine or take a friend into battle for some fun 2 player local co-op.
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Lost In Space
Single-player alternative to Humans Are Useless — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Casual with Humans Are Useless.
Connor loves his job as a researcher, but his office space-base is under attack! Your boss has trusted you to vanquish the alien menace by killing as many as possible, and now you can do so on PC!
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Boing Bang Adventure
Single-player alternative to Humans Are Useless — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Humans Are Useless.
Boing Bang Adventure is a 2D arcade game in the style of the classic arcade game "Pang" Face almost 50 levels, in 8 different world in single player or in local co-op!
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Historical Invaders
Single-player alternative to Humans Are Useless — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Humans Are Useless.
The most wicked men that ever lived on earth. Authoritarians, dictators, and tyrants, from Hitler to Stalin, they are all back. Historical Invaders it's a fixed shooter game where you are the chosen one to annihilate the demons of our past and save mankind.
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Topspace
Single-player alternative to Humans Are Useless — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Humans Are Useless.
A topdown bullet hell game where you control a spaceship and fight waves of asteroids and enemy spaceships.