Single-player games like I Made Myself a Ship
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to I Made Myself a Ship, 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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Combat Miner
Single-player alternative to I Made Myself a Ship — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with I Made Myself a Ship.
Every asteroid is worth more than the last - but so is the danger. Mine increasingly valuable ore, survive relentless homing missiles, upgrade your ship, and see how rich you can get before everything resets.
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REVO
Single-player alternative to I Made Myself a Ship — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with I Made Myself a Ship.
Dodge and shoot your way through waves of enemies. REVO is a high speed, neon drenched space shoot ‘em up inspired by arcade classics of the 1980’s. Collect pickups, unlock powerful, ammo hungry weapons, and defeat giant bosses.
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Broadside Renegades
Single-player alternative to I Made Myself a Ship — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with I Made Myself a Ship.
Broadside Renegades combines auto-firing weapons with manual ship abilities in a rogue-like space pirate adventure. Choose your captain and upgrade your ship to steal the space kings booty. Warp ahead to stay alive, and mind your bearing.
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Breakpoint
Single-player alternative to I Made Myself a Ship — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with I Made Myself a Ship.
Breakpoint is a twin-stick slasher where your weapons explode. Break through the swarm to claim your spot on the online leaderboard.
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Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime
Single-player alternative to I Made Myself a Ship — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with I Made Myself a Ship.
Cross blades with space knights in this epic physics-based roguelike where space-age and medieval combat collide. Die often, upgrade, and battle your way across the galaxy, defeating rival ships in methodical skirmishes on a quest to save your kingdom from destruction!
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Retro Classix: SRD - Super Real Darwin
Single-player alternative to I Made Myself a Ship — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with I Made Myself a Ship.
Super Real Darwin is a fast-paced, vertical scrolling shoot-em-up that rewards skill and persistence – a cult classic for the retro shmup fan. Take control of a fighter ship capable of mutating into different shapes as it evolves while fighting off enemy invaders.
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Gratuitous Space Battles
Single-player alternative to I Made Myself a Ship — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with I Made Myself a Ship.
The first ever auto-battler game, from way back in 2009Who needs backstory? Who needs resource-gathering? Diplomacy is so last year. Gratuitous Space Battles cuts right to the chase of sci-fi strategy games, and deals with large, completely unjustified space battles between huge opposing space fleets.
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Hotline Miami
Single-player alternative to I Made Myself a Ship — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with I Made Myself a Ship.
Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat.
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I Made Myself An AI
Single-player alternative to I Made Myself a Ship — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Build circuits and manage heat as you complete tasks in this surprisingly intuitive puzzle game unlike anything you've ever played before.