Single-player games like Electrocop
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Electrocop, 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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Frenzy
Single-player alternative to Electrocop — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Electrocop.
In this simple riff on an arcade classic, released in 1983 for the ZX Spectrum by famed game developer/publisher Ocean Software, search labarinthine levels for the exit, while surviving an ever-increasing onslaught of deadly robots.
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BABU - Blow All Blocks Up!
Single-player alternative to Electrocop — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Electrocop.
A sci-fi 80s retro shooter and bullet hell. Use your plasma cannon and bombs to repell an alien invasion. Either defeat the alien robots building and upgrading the blocks and turrets - or blow all of their blocks up! 20 straightforward levels.
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Doctor Nanobot
Single-player alternative to Electrocop — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Electrocop.
Small robot, big battles! Doctor Nanobot is a retro style arcade shooter where you take on bacteria, viruses and more using a variety of high tech medical weaponry!
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N₂O
Single-player alternative to Electrocop — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Electrocop.
Pilot your customized craft across 30 psychedelic tubular levels of adrenaline-pumping action, fighting a constant stream of terrifying insectoid aliens trying to stop you in your tracks, all set to a soundtrack by The Crystal Method. Features a 2-player local coop mode.
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Netherspace
Single-player alternative to Electrocop — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Electrocop.
A sci-fi shoot'em'up game with heavy focus on upgrades experimentation, featuring two unlikely heroes that must work perfectly together, despite their share of secrets, to surpass their limits and succeed in eliminating a threat that might destroy both Earth and Andraxia if left unchecked.
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While you are Downloading
Single-player alternative to Electrocop — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Electrocop.
A quick and action paced retro styled arcade shooter, or shoot 'em up (shmup) if you like. Perfect to play in short chunks, like when you are waiting for big games to download.
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Pixel Game Maker Series STEOS -Sorrow song of Bounty hunter-
Single-player alternative to Electrocop — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Electrocop.
"Feeling tired of regular shooters?" “If you answered YES, then what are you waiting for?” “Reverse your thinking in this not-side-scrolling artillery shooting game, Steos!”
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The Eternal Castle [REMASTERED]
Single-player alternative to Electrocop — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Electrocop.
The Eternal Castle [REMASTERED] is a remake of the original "ETERNAL CASTLE" from 1987, with additional game mechanics, sophisticated sound design, polished 2-bit CGA animated graphics, and modernized game design.
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Rogue
Single-player alternative to Electrocop — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Experience the commercial port of the game that spawned a thousand 'Rogue-likes'. Venture into the Dungeons of Doom in search of the legendary Amulet of Yendor, and hopefully escape with your life! Randomly generated dungeons await you, full of nasty monsters, insidious traps, and glittering loot.
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California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis)
Single-player alternative to Electrocop — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Ask anyone who considered themselves a true gamer in 1987 and the chances are they will fondly remember California Games. Now on Steam for the very first time, you too can enjoy six radical and awesome events: the half-pipe, roller skating, surfing, BMX, footbag and the flying disc.
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Impossible Mission II
Single-player alternative to Electrocop — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Electrocop.
Sequel to the equally-popular Impossible Mission, this classic 1980s action platformer sees you tasked with infiltrating a futuristic fortress, built to keep safe malicious mastermind Elvin Atombender. Now available on Steam for the first time, responsibility for saving the world rests with YOU!
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California Games II
Single-player alternative to Electrocop — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Originally launched in 1990 on the boundary-pushing 16-bit computers and consoles of the day, this bodacious sequel to the immensely popular California Games sees you competing in five awesome events: hang-gliding, jet-skiing, snowboarding, body-boarding and skateboarding!
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Temple of Apshai Trilogy
Single-player alternative to Electrocop — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
In this classic dungeon crawler, hack and slash your way through over 500 rooms with dozens of terrifying monsters. A true 1980s fantasy game, experience the frustrations and triumphs of the tabletop gaming inspired combat. Temple of Apshai is waiting. Silently lurking. Patiently waiting. For you.
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The Games: Winter Edition
Single-player alternative to Electrocop — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Compete in seven Winter Games events in this DOS classic from 1988, created by masters of sports simulation Epyx. Hurtle down the slopes, over jumps, or across the ice, all in search of that elusive Gold medal.
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Battle Bugs
Single-player alternative to Electrocop — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
In this unconventional real-time strategy game, control a fearsome army of stink bugs, cockroaches, lightning bugs, ants and more in a miniature, pun-filled warzone! 56 battles with 22 types of Battle Bug await you!
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Jumpman (C64/MSDOS)
Single-player alternative to Electrocop — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Electrocop.
Run, climb and jump from platform to platform to collect and disarm deadly bombs, but watch out! One single misstep will send you tumbling to the ground! With 30 different challenging levels to beat, experience the thrills and spills of one of the earliest platformers.