Single-player games like Rocket!
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Rocket!, 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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Beat Hazard 3
Single-player alternative to Rocket! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rocket!.
Are you ready to explore your music collection mapped as a stunning galaxy of wonders? Experience your music collection as never before with this intense music driven twin stick shooter. Each of your songs will have its own unique ebb and flow based on the music.
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CRYPTARK
Single-player alternative to Rocket! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Rocket!.
Cryptark is a 2D sci-fi shooter where you take on the role of a heavily armed privateer seeking to earn government contracts by boarding deadly alien space-hulks. It's up to you to strategize a plan of attack, pick an equipment loadout, and destroy the central core to be victorious.
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Woodpunk
Single-player alternative to Rocket! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rocket!.
Woodpunk is an exhilarating roguelike bullet hell retro pixel art shooter in a medieval Woodpunk universe, where the primary energy resource is WOOD.
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Warhammer 40,000: Shootas, Blood & Teef
Single-player alternative to Rocket! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Rocket!.
From the developers of the Guns, Gore and Cannoli franchise comes a new 2D run & gun platformer: Warhammer 40,000: Shootas, Blood & TEEF! Spearhead an Ork invasion, destroy the hive city and kill your warboss! ‘Ere we go!
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Freaky Awesome
Single-player alternative to Rocket! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rocket!.
Freaky Awesome is a hectic action rogue-lite. You explore a randomly generated old factory, fighting weird monsters and avoiding traps. Toxic wastes will make you mutate, gaining different powers every time. You will need to adapt to your mutations to survive!
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Blazing Beaks
Single-player alternative to Rocket! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rocket!.
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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Rogue Stormers
Single-player alternative to Rocket! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rocket!.
An action packed platform shooter mashed-up with roguelike and RPG elements, crazy 3D graphics and co-op multiplayer for one to 4 players.
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One Step From Eden
Single-player alternative to Rocket! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Rocket!.
Build a powerful deck, cast spells on the fly, battle evolving enemies, find game-changing artifacts, make friends or make enemies, just make it to Eden.
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Drop It: Block Paradise!
Single-player alternative to Rocket! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rocket!.
Drop It: Block Paradise is all about using various physic game mechanics, like gravity, bouncy blocks, bombs and more to safely get the Stars to the ground floor to solve Physics-based Puzzle levels. Featuring 250+ Puzzle Levels, Chaotic Versus Mode, Level Editor & Online Levels await you!
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ZaciSa: Defense of the Crayon Dimension!
Single-player alternative to Rocket! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rocket!.
2D Tower Defense game set in a colorful world of Crayons. Over 20 different Maps with plenty of fun Weapons at your ready to defend the Crayon Empire. Can you survive the onslaught?