Single-player games like Heli-Cats
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Heli-Cats, 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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Astral Gunners
Single-player alternative to Heli-Cats — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Heli-Cats.
Get ready to push your skills to the limit against an endless sea of bullets and evil robots in Astral Gunners. Choose from five different gunners to master in this horizontal shooter. With the ability to dodge, reflect, delete, and convert bullets you are more powerful than you might believe.
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Rutabaga Desert Storm
Single-player alternative to Heli-Cats — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Heli-Cats.
Lead the vegetable revolution alone or with a friend in the side-scrolling shoot ‘em up Rutabaga Desert Storm! Take down wave after wave of enemies, dodge their projectiles, and grab power-ups to boost your destruction! Can you defeat the oppressive humans and free the proletariat vegetable masses?
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Mooncall
Single-player alternative to Heli-Cats — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Heli-Cats.
A retro vector arcade rescue game. Fly your ship to save stranded foragers from a crater-scarred moon, then walk the surface to build beacon networks while the asteroid storms close in. Don't ask about the red mushrooms as officially, they aren't there.
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Gundroid
Single-player alternative to Heli-Cats — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Heli-Cats.
Protect the Earth from an alien invasion in this Run N’ Gun action spectacle. Take control of G.U.N.N.R. and battle your way through a blast from the pixelated past.
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Space Mash
Single-player alternative to Heli-Cats — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Heli-Cats.
Space Mash is a bullet-hell shooter in the retro style of the earliest arcade games. To help beginners, older players and those with a motor impairment, there are five levels of slow-down that can be activated at any time during game play.
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Twin Cobra
Single-player alternative to Heli-Cats — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Heli-Cats.
Blast battalions of tanks into smoking craters and conquer air and sea from the sky's fastest attack chopper! Toaplan's coin-op shooter Twin Cobra flies to PC with fresh features and quality-of-life updates!
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Zero Wing
Single-player alternative to Heli-Cats — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Heli-Cats.
Defend the galaxy from vicious space pirates! Seize your foes and fire them back at their allies for devastating destruction in Toaplan's legendary horizontal arcade shooter, now on PC with all-new features and quality-of-life bonuses!
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Shoot 1UP DX
Single-player alternative to Heli-Cats — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Heli-Cats.
Why play shoot 'em ups one ship at a time? Launch them all at once! Unleash an entire armada of ships in Shoot 1UP!
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Pryzm
Single-player alternative to Heli-Cats — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Heli-Cats.
A survival adventure mystery with turn-based combat and escape parameters that change with every new 1 to 2-hour run. A visual novel that can be played like a speedrun.