Single-player games like Re-Bounder
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Re-Bounder, 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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Time Bandit
Single-player alternative to Re-Bounder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Re-Bounder.
In this unique top-down shooter with text adventure elements from the 1980s, take on the role of a time traveller seeking wealth and adventure across a number of different eras of time. Play with 1 or 2 players. Players can choose to work together, or against each other!
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Paws (CPC/Spectrum)
Single-player alternative to Re-Bounder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Re-Bounder.
In this unique top-down game from 1985, you are a mother cat whose twelve young kittens have wandered off into a labarinthine town prowled by fearsome dogs. Can you save them all?
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Magic Fairy Fun Blast
Single-player alternative to Re-Bounder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Re-Bounder.
Magic Fairy Fun Blast is a challenging and fast paced arcade style bullet hell arena wave based shooter. You are a fairy that just wants to have fun but your version of fun is different than the rest of the world.
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Red Blaster
Single-player alternative to Re-Bounder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Re-Bounder.
Blast your way through increasing waves of enemies in this fast-paced top-down action-arcade shoot 'em-up while unlocking new levels, weapon upgrades and harder enemy types as you make progress in RED BLASTER!
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Neon Meltdown
Single-player alternative to Re-Bounder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Re-Bounder.
Your own reactor is the thing trying to kill you. Every kill feeds the heat, and the coolant those kills drop is the only thing that vents it — lying exactly where the danger just was. A twin-stick score chase where diving into the crowd is the only way to survive it. Five modes, co-op up to four.
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Incremental Space Defense Force League
Single-player alternative to Re-Bounder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Re-Bounder.
Pilot an A.C.E combat craft in a incremental retro styled sci-fi shoot 'em up where every run earns data shards, unlocks upgrades via 7 skill trees, fight bosses, conquer 100 prestige levels and push deeper into a war against the Worms invading the colony.
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L4MB
Single-player alternative to Re-Bounder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Re-Bounder.
You are last humanity hope to bring down the greatest threat mankind has been deal with it. Gears up your arsenal, face hordes of enemies and deadly bosses in this new verticall shoot em up.
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Stellar Space
Single-player alternative to Re-Bounder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Re-Bounder.
Stellar Space is a new take on a classic arcade game with a modern, rogue-like, form for new players to enjoy!
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Wanted! Monty Mole
Single-player alternative to Re-Bounder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Re-Bounder.
In this classic platformer from 1984, take on the role of Monty Mole and grab as much coal as you can from the South Yorkshire coal pit, for a long, cold winter and a bone chilling Christmas lies ahead. Avoid flying pickets, carnivorous fish, deadly hairsprays, and a host of other surreal hazards.
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Monty on the Run (CPC/Spectrum)
Single-player alternative to Re-Bounder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Re-Bounder.
In this classic platformer from 1985, take on the role of noted small subterranean mammal criminal Monty Mole, recently escaped from Scudmore Prison and fleeing for his life! Can you make the cross-channel ferry in time?
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Bounder (CPC/Spectrum)
Single-player alternative to Re-Bounder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Re-Bounder.
In this unique top-down platformer from 1985, as a living tennis ball bounce across dozens upon dozens of screens of tricky platforms suspended in the sky. Land on special tiles that produce a number of effects.
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Auf Wiedersehen Monty (CPC/Spectrum)
Single-player alternative to Re-Bounder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Re-Bounder.
In this classic platformer from 1987, take on the role of noted small subterranean mammal criminal Monty Mole, fleeing across Europe from the forces of Intermole. Can you collect enough cash to buy an island paradise and live in luxury?
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Jack the Nipper
Single-player alternative to Re-Bounder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Re-Bounder.
Take on the role of toddler terror Jack in his quest to become as naughty as possible! Toddle throughout the town, bringing your own brand of baby bedlam. Jump on things, grab and use a wide variety of items, all in a bid to become the biggest nuisance you can. Originally published in 1986.
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Sam Stoat: Safebreaker
Single-player alternative to Re-Bounder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Re-Bounder.
In this fiendishly difficult 1985 platformer, take on the role of the malefactorous mustelid Sam Stoat as he attempts to steal precious diamonds. Collect a bomb and match, jump across some perilous platforms, and find and blow the safe to claim your prize!
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Moley Christmas
Single-player alternative to Re-Bounder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Re-Bounder.
In this festive platformer, originally released with copies of Your Sinclair magazine back in 1987, guide Monty Mole through a series of challenging levels, jumping, climbing, dodging bizarre enemies and collecting useful items, all in order to get the game itself out in time for Christmas!
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The Way of the Tiger (CPC/Spectrum)
Single-player alternative to Re-Bounder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Re-Bounder.
In this beat-em-up from 1986, take on the role of Avenger, the ninja warrior, as he battles the forces of evil in defence of his faith and protection of the weak. Based on the popular series of fantasy adventure gamebooks.