Single-player games like Rhythm Storm
Below are 18 single-player Steam games similar to Rhythm Storm, 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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Sektori
Single-player alternative to Rhythm Storm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Rhythm Storm.
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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Beat Hazard
Single-player alternative to Rhythm Storm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Rhythm Storm.
Experience your music collection like never before with this intense music driven arcade shooter. Each of your songs will have its own unique ebb and flow based on the music.
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Symphony
Single-player alternative to Rhythm Storm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Rhythm Storm.
A mysterious entity is absorbing and corrupting your music before your very eyes. You must battle through your own song collection and fight to reclaim your music!
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Airships: Lost Flotilla
Single-player alternative to Rhythm Storm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Rhythm Storm.
Airships: Lost Flotilla is a steampunk autoshooter where you fight your way through waves of enemies on your way to a safe harbour. Destroy your foes, harvest wreckage, and upgrade your ship.
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Thumper
Single-player alternative to Rhythm Storm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Rhythm Storm.
Thumper is rhythm violence: classic rhythm-action, blistering speed, and brutal physicality. You are a space beetle. Brave the hellish void and confront a maniacal giant head from the future.
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Shape Shifter: Formations
Single-player alternative to Rhythm Storm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Rhythm Storm.
Shape Shifter: Formations is an action twin-stick shooter with rogue-lite elements, where you must destroy hordes of geometric enemies alone or with a friend. Select your ship and combine a large variety of weapons, abilities and infinitely stacking upgrades to craft your own unique build.
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Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved
Single-player alternative to Rhythm Storm — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved is a old school style shooter, but remixed for the 21st century with next generation graphics and deep, modern gameplay. Playing is simple: you are a geometric "ship" trapped in a grid world, facing off against waves of deadly wanderers, snakes, and repulsars.
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ROBOBEAT
Single-player alternative to Rhythm Storm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Rhythm Storm.
Keep your trigger finger on the pulse! In rhythm shooter ROBOBEAT, you'll play as Ace - a bounty hunter on a mission to capture robot-gone-rogue Frazzer in his ever-shifting lair. Wall run, slide, and shoot to your own beat using the in-game custom music editor, blasting through Frazzer's armies!
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Nova Drift
Single-player alternative to Rhythm Storm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Rhythm Storm.
Nova Drift distills the mechanical depth and strategy of an ARPG into classic arcade space combat. Control an endlessly evolving bio-mechanical ship, face legions of strange and deadly foes, and ride the wake of a dying star across the void.
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Vampire Survivors
Single-player alternative to Rhythm Storm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Rhythm Storm.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
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Exception
Single-player alternative to Rhythm Storm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Rhythm Storm.
When an old woman's computer system is taken over by a virus bent on total annihilation, you assume control of an ordinary software program transformed into an elite combat machine. Retake the system and build your character into a formidable instrument of retribution.
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Rez Infinite
Single-player alternative to Rhythm Storm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Rhythm Storm.
The legendary action-shooter finally comes to PC, and in style! Blast your way through mind-melting visuals and amazing beats, all in your quest through cyberspace to save a world on the verge of collapse. Playable on your desktop or in fully immersive VR.
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Instruments of Destruction
Single-player alternative to Rhythm Storm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Rhythm Storm.
Crash through walls and tear down buildings in Instruments of Destruction, a vehicle-action game featuring advanced physics-based demolition. Pilot 130+ unique vehicles across scores of challenge-packed missions or design your own contraptions and wreck highly-interactive sandbox worlds.
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Inferno 2
Single-player alternative to Rhythm Storm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Rhythm Storm.
Inferno 2 is an intense, atmospheric twin-stick adventure-shooter. Blast through 80+ levels full of enemies and secrets while upgrading your ship the way you want.
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Devastator
Single-player alternative to Rhythm Storm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Rhythm Storm.
Devastator is a retro-modern arcade twin-stick shooter. Featuring spectacular, fluid visuals (with 4k and 120hz+ support), heart-pounding music and sound, and intuitive, intense, and varied gameplay, Devastator is the ultimate twin-stick shooter for people who love twin-stick shooters!
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Fireball 2
Single-player alternative to Rhythm Storm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Rhythm Storm.
Fireball 2 is an elegant and satisfying arcade survival game. Dodge and boost your way through a massive flood of enemies. Lure them into range and detonate a devastating bomb! Features infinite waves, two modes and difficulties, local co-op, dazzling visuals, and an epic soundscape.
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Speed Demons 2
Single-player alternative to Rhythm Storm — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Speed Demons 2 is an arcade highway racing game featuring explosive action, breakneck speeds, and very intense TRAFFIC. With a pulse-pounding soundtrack, unique side-scrolling perspectives, and TONS of varied modes, vehicles, and races, Speed Demons 2 is a thrilling blend of speed and chaos.
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miniopolis
Single-player alternative to Rhythm Storm — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Create, shape, and customize a miniature metropolis with intuitive and satisfying tools. Construct towering cityscapes, fine-tune their look and layout, and give every structure its own distinctive character. Build the way you want in this resource-free city-building sandbox.