Single-player games like Blue Lightning
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Blue Lightning, 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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Snow Strike
Single-player alternative to Blue Lightning — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Blue Lightning.
Fly your F14-LBC "Rapier" on a series of air bound missions. Your task – to destroy the labs, bomb refineries, and stop the enemy convoys. But watch out for those enemies who are armed with heat and radar guided missiles!
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Space Battle SVF
Single-player alternative to Blue Lightning — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Blue Lightning.
This game is a 3D space flight shooter. Arcade type game. It's a game to shoot a lot of missiles.
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ACE COMBAT™ 7: SKIES UNKNOWN
Single-player alternative to Blue Lightning — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Blue Lightning.
Become an ace pilot and soar through photorealistic skies with full 360 degree movement; down enemy aircraft and experience the thrill of engaging in realistic sorties! Aerial combat has never looked or felt better!
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Paper Planes
Single-player alternative to Blue Lightning — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Blue Lightning.
Take your role as protector and defend your assets from enemy squadrons or engage in devastation as the attacker. Fly with the best Paper Plane pilots in the world in hand crafted parks with an abundance of enemies to destroy. Paper Planes is an Arcade team-flightsim, base defender and battleroyale.
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Raid on the Zone
Single-player alternative to Blue Lightning — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Blue Lightning.
Fight in a furious battle against “The Zone”, a mysterious terrorist group hell-bent on destroying the world. Cripple their defenses with your dual-prop helicopter and massive arsenal of weaponry in this retro-inspired homage to arcade games of the 80’s.
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Massive Air Combat
Single-player alternative to Blue Lightning — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Blue Lightning.
This game is a simple 3D flight shooting game. It's an arcade-style game. Player controls the aircraft(XF-99) to destroy enemy aircraft.
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City Air Battle
Single-player alternative to Blue Lightning — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Blue Lightning.
City Air Battle is a flying racing and shooting game where you will pilot a fighter jet to compete with opponents in the air over real cities, hitting various targets and avoiding buildings. You can also engage in intense aerial battles with opponents.
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Project Wingman
Single-player alternative to Blue Lightning — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Blue Lightning.
Project Wingman is a flight action game that lets you take the seat of advanced fighter jets and become a true ace. Fight in various missions and gamemodes ranging from intense aerial dogfights to large scale ground assault in an alternate scorched earth setting.
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Rogue
Single-player alternative to Blue Lightning — 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 Blue Lightning — 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 Blue Lightning — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Blue Lightning.
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 Blue Lightning — 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 Blue Lightning — 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 Blue Lightning — 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 Blue Lightning — 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 Blue Lightning — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Blue Lightning.
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.