Single-player games like Pixel Descent
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Pixel Descent, 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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Jamestown
Single-player alternative to Pixel Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pixel Descent.
Jamestown: Legend Of The Lost Colony is a neo-classical top-down shooter for up to 4 players, set on 17th-century British Colonial Mars. It features all the intensity, depth, and lovingly handcrafted pixels of a classic arcade shooter, with a modern twist: deeply-integrated cooperative gameplay.
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Steredenn: Binary Stars
Single-player alternative to Pixel Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pixel Descent.
Steredenn is a frenetic and chaotic space shooter, carved in big beautiful pixels, with insane boss battles. Embark in your ship and engage the fight against dreadful space pirates in a never-ending combat for your survival.
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Bleed 2
Single-player alternative to Pixel Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pixel Descent.
Bleed 2 is a relentless arcade action game featuring air-dodging, bullet-reflecting, and tons of bosses. Now with randomly-generated levels and daily challenges, too!
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AquaNimble
Single-player alternative to Pixel Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pixel Descent.
AquaNimble is about crazy intense shooter action with big quirky guns against underwater snake dragons, cybernetic sharks, swirling skeletons, submarines and so much more. It's a dynamic game that makes every play through different and lets you set your own challenge beyond a difficulty setting.
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Shoot 1UP DX
Single-player alternative to Pixel Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pixel Descent.
Why play shoot 'em ups one ship at a time? Launch them all at once! Unleash an entire armada of ships in Shoot 1UP!
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Super Bit Blaster XL
Single-player alternative to Pixel Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pixel Descent.
A SUPER throwback to the classic quarter eating arcade games of the 80's. Super Bit Blaster XL is an (even more) enhanced version of the retro styled, addictive, and fast paced arcade shoot 'em up!
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RagingBlasters
Single-player alternative to Pixel Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pixel Descent.
Raging Blasters is a vertical scroll shmup featuring high speed scrolling and the exhilaration of destruction.
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Zombie Party
Single-player alternative to Pixel Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pixel Descent.
Zombie Party is a retro rampage of fun and over-the-top action, while still giving the players a deep and engaging Action-RPG Rogue-like experience! Go on a time traveling adventure, or delve deep into procedural dungeons full of gold, loot, and secrets!
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Vampire Survivors
Single-player alternative to Pixel Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pixel Descent.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
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Gauntlet
Single-player alternative to Pixel Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Pixel Descent.
Working as a common grunt for CannoSec, you have been chosen by the owner to be a candidate as a distinguished Elite. A position thousands in CannoSec work hard to attain. However, you have to show CannoSec that you are a worthy candidate through the Certification Run. Are you meant for this?
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Myth Bearer
Single-player alternative to Pixel Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Pixel Descent.
An open-ended adventure game that seamlessly blends RPG mechanics and puzzle solving.
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Deep Rune
Single-player alternative to Pixel Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Pixel Descent.
A side-scrolling adventure game that seamlessly blends RPG mechanics and puzzle solving, all set in a mysterious world rooted in Norse mythology. Inspired by King's Field, Tower of the Sorcerer, and DROD RPG.