Single-player games like The Outer Space Bugs
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Outer Space Bugs, 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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Night Poetry
Single-player alternative to The Outer Space Bugs — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Outer Space Bugs.
Night Poetry is a story-driven rogue-lite RPG with an existential and subjective narrative! Face waves of enemies, collect XP, and experience your evolution by obtaining various power-ups, while uncovering the consequences of an uncertain past in an ancient and mysterious city...
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Meow Legion
Single-player alternative to The Outer Space Bugs — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with The Outer Space Bugs.
Meow Legion is a game about assembling an army of cats to defend against waves of enemies.A top-down roguelite shooter game where you hire cats and level them up to fight mice from the evil Mousy Empire!
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Peace Data
Single-player alternative to The Outer Space Bugs — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Outer Space Bugs.
Peace Data — hard "Roguelike" game, in which you have to play for Bitard, saving Rusland from the tyranny of the authorities that destroyed the opposition and led the country to ruin, making slaves of citizens.
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Earl vs. the Mutants
Single-player alternative to The Outer Space Bugs — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Outer Space Bugs.
Save humanity in a mutant-ridden apocalypse! Dive headfirst into Earl vs. the Mutants, a high-octane top-down survival action-roguelite set in the aftermath of a nuclear apocalypse.
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REPLIKATOR
Single-player alternative to The Outer Space Bugs — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Outer Space Bugs.
In this twin stick roguelite shooter, you play as one of the galactic mercenaries, explore a mysterious scientific complex and uncover the secret of the REPLIKATOR project.
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Blazing Beaks
Single-player alternative to The Outer Space Bugs — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Outer Space Bugs.
Roguelite - where too much greediness can be fatal. A colorful world with armed birds blazing their way through piles of mutants, monsters and creepy creatures. Lots of mysteries to unravel, secrets to discover and levels to explore.
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NIMRODS
Single-player alternative to The Outer Space Bugs — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Outer Space Bugs.
Assemble a limitless arsenal in this survive-em-up roguelite shooter. As a Gun Manufacturer's testing force, your mission is simple: test the latest gun tech and scavenge alien planets. Collect insane weapon parts to invent crazy guns that slay thousands. You may not survive, but your guns will!
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Nuclear Throne
Single-player alternative to The Outer Space Bugs — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Outer Space Bugs.
Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?