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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 — Steam game cover

    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.

    2024ActionIndieCasual19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    CRYPTARK — Steam game cover

    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.

    2017ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Woodpunk — Steam game cover

    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.

    2018ActionIndie14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Warhammer 40,000: Shootas, Blood & Teef — Steam game cover

    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!

    2022ActionAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Freaky Awesome — Steam game cover

    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!

    2017ActionIndie9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Blazing Beaks — Steam game cover

    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.

    2019ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Rogue Stormers — Steam game cover

    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.

    2016ActionIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    One Step From Eden — Steam game cover

    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.

    2020ActionStrategyIndie7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Drop It: Block Paradise! — Steam game cover

    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!

    2023StrategyIndieCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    ZaciSa: Defense of the Crayon Dimension! — Steam game cover

    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?

    2023StrategyIndie4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →