Single-player games like Waves 2: Notorious
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Waves 2: Notorious, 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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Waves
Single-player alternative to Waves 2: Notorious — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Waves 2: Notorious.
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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Sektori
Single-player alternative to Waves 2: Notorious — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Waves 2: Notorious.
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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Nex Machina
Single-player alternative to Waves 2: Notorious — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Waves 2: Notorious.
Nex Machina is an intense arcade style twin-stick shooter from Housemarque. Taking hints from both Robotron and Smash TV, Nex Machina focuses on pure action, voxel destruction and competition in the distant, cablepunk themed future.
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Destropolis
Single-player alternative to Waves 2: Notorious — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Waves 2: Notorious.
Destropolis is a top-down shooter game with a fully destructible environment, hundreds of enemies and nuclear explosions. Fight a countless swarm of enemies. Tear them to pieces with bullets, lasers and explosions. Destroy as many of them as you can before they overwhelm you...
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Go Mecha Ball
Single-player alternative to Waves 2: Notorious — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Waves 2: Notorious.
Load up and roll out, in this twin stick shooter with roguelike progression! Blast your way through arcade-style levels, using pinball-style physics mixed with an arsenal of devastating weapons. Defeat waves of enemy bots, battle big bosses, and upgrade your mech between runs.
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Chippy
Single-player alternative to Waves 2: Notorious — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Waves 2: Notorious.
Chip destructible bosses apart pixel-by-pixel in this twin-stick bullet-hell shooter.
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Neon Chrome
Single-player alternative to Waves 2: Notorious — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Waves 2: Notorious.
A masterful combination of top-down shooter and endless replayability with procedural levels. Blast your way through walls & enemies with guns and cybernetic abilities. Install perks from cyber chambers and upgrade your character stats after each death. Can you stop the Overseer?
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Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved
Single-player alternative to Waves 2: Notorious — 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.