Single-player games like Gimbal
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Gimbal, 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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Galactic Asteroids Patrol
Single-player alternative to Gimbal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gimbal.
Modern, fast-paced, asteroid shooting frenzy!
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SpaceCraft Brawl
Single-player alternative to Gimbal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gimbal.
Build spacecrafts and fight with or against your friends! This game offers physics driven gameplay, with a variety of weapons and powerups. Slice your enemies in half with a laser beam, or erase them from existence with a black hole bomb!
- 3
Chaos Party
Single-player alternative to Gimbal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gimbal.
Chaos Party is a fast-paced, friendship destroying party shooter set in a 2D universe. You are the equipment slot; Remnants will cling onto your sticky body. Each game provides a new opportunity to try synergies with over a hundred weapons. Have fun with friends online or offline!
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Starship Scarwolf
Single-player alternative to Gimbal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gimbal.
Starship Scarwolf is a 2D top-down omnidirectional shooter. As I'm a fan of vector scan games, I aimed to create an expression using only wireframe rendering. However, I couldn't achieve this with just dots and lines, so I also used fill and circle drawing functions.
- 5
Scrap Galaxy
Single-player alternative to Gimbal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gimbal.
Scrap Galaxy is a local build-and-destroy deathmatch game for up to 4 players. It is a 2D top-down shooter taking place out in space in a galactic junkyard. In this setting, the players are trying to survive by constructing space ships.
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Trailmakers
Single-player alternative to Gimbal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gimbal.
Build the ultimate vehicle and explore a vast open world filled with challenges and adventure. Play solo or team up with friends in multiplayer to conquer the toughest obstacles. With a thrilling campaign mode and endless creative possibilities, Trailmakers is the ultimate sandbox for adventurers.
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Retrograde Arena
Single-player alternative to Gimbal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gimbal.
Retrograde Arena is a multiplayer twin stick shooter where bullets don’t kill. Use weapons, physics, and your Drone to push, pull, and blast your foes into deadly surroundings in this skill-based shooter action title that redefines physics-based action.
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Signs of Life
Single-player alternative to Gimbal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gimbal.
Signs of Life is a sci-fi survival sandbox platformer with a combination of procedurally generated and hand-crafted content. You'll explore mysterious locations, Mine blocks for resources, and meet strange (and some familiar) creatures, some of which don't even want to kill you and eat your corpse.