Single-player games like The Rush
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Rush, 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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Royal Odyssey
Single-player alternative to The Rush — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Rush.
Royal Odyssey is a retro-style arcade space shooter where you pilot Prince Zayven’s ship through a deadly asteroid storm, blasting your way to survival.
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Chromacell
Single-player alternative to The Rush — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Rush.
In this sideways scrolling shmup, take control of your spaceship and navigate through vibrant pixelated environments filled with hordes of enemy spacecraft. Upgrade your ship and weapons, dodge enemy fire while blasting through each stage. Emerge victorious as the ultimate space pilot!
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VectaGuard
Single-player alternative to The Rush — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Rush.
Arcade-inspired shmup action where neon vector caverns explode with modern visuals, dynamic music, weapon upgrades and intense score chasing.
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Vector Seven
Single-player alternative to The Rush — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Rush.
High speed arcade shooter built in the style of a lost 1980s vector game. Fight across looping battlefields, defend ground installations and survive relentless waves of enemy attacks!
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Absolute Blue
Single-player alternative to The Rush — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Rush.
Sidescrolling Shoot’em’up that will transport you back into the 90s (and space).
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Syder Arcade
Single-player alternative to The Rush — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Rush.
Killing zombies never gets old, but sometimes you just need a break. Get back to some serious old-school gaming with Syder Arcade! Syder Arcade is a love letter to Amiga games of the ‘90s, no coins, no upgrade grinding, just your tenacity and a motherload of alien invaders.
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Earthion
Single-player alternative to The Rush — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Rush.
Earthion is a side-scrolling space shooter developed natively for 16-bit systems. Guide space fighter pilot Azusa Takanashi in her fight to repel the alien invaders and save planet Earth.
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Starr Mazer: DSP
Single-player alternative to The Rush — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Rush.
The UNFP's been kicked in the teeth by a G'ell invasion force and their last and only hope is a planetary outpost and its fleet of experimental DSP MkI Forward Assault Fighters and anyone marshal enough to strap into one and forcefully accept some apologies.