Single-player games like Jets'n'Guns Gold
Below are 19 single-player Steam games similar to Jets'n'Guns Gold, 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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Jets'n'Guns 2
Single-player alternative to Jets'n'Guns Gold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Jets'n'Guns Gold.
Jets'n'Guns 2 is a side-scrolling space shooter with insane levels of action and destruction. Travel the galaxies and unleash an arsenal of the deadliest weapons and devices to save the universe from its inevitable doom.
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Syder Arcade
Single-player alternative to Jets'n'Guns Gold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Jets'n'Guns Gold.
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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Crimzon Clover WORLD IGNITION
Single-player alternative to Jets'n'Guns Gold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Jets'n'Guns Gold.
Prepare yourself for an insatiable rain of bullets, bombs, and beams in Crimzon Clover. From Japanese indie developer Yotsubane, this retro top-down shooter is a wild ride you won't want to miss out on.
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SATAZIUS
Single-player alternative to Jets'n'Guns Gold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Jets'n'Guns Gold.
The year is 2051. Location: SATAZIUS, a long-abandoned planet. The cruiser Agano was on patrol when it was attacked and stricken by a confederacy of space pirates that had established a base on SATAZIUS. The pirates attacked the Agano intending to steal the assault ship ‘Trafalgar’ that was stowed aboard the Agano, but the Trafalgar made...
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Earthion
Single-player alternative to Jets'n'Guns Gold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Jets'n'Guns Gold.
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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Valfaris: Mecha Therion
Single-player alternative to Jets'n'Guns Gold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Jets'n'Guns Gold.
Therion returns as the hunt for Lord Vroll continues. Pilot an advanced machine of death and destruction in this explosive 2.5D side-scrolling shoot ‘em up, and sequel to the critically acclaimed Valfaris. Strap in and unleash mecha hell!
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Blazing Chrome
Single-player alternative to Jets'n'Guns Gold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Jets'n'Guns Gold.
In Blazing Chrome, bring your best pal and kick some metal butts to free the humankind while enjoying a classic run’n’gun, fully loaded with action and exciting fights!
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DARIUSBURST Chronicle Saviours
Single-player alternative to Jets'n'Guns Gold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Jets'n'Guns Gold.
DARIUSBURST Chronicle Saviours is the latest installment in Taito's DARIUS series of arcade-style shooting games. Blast hordes of alien sea-monsters, and blaze your own trail through branching environments.
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Raptor: Call of The Shadows - 2015 Edition
Single-player alternative to Jets'n'Guns Gold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Jets'n'Guns Gold.
The great action-crazed, guns blazing, shoot ‘em up game comes back straight out of the ‘90s. Raptor: Call of the Shadows and its futuristic world are ready to challenge your flying skills.
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Raptor: Call of the Shadows (1994 Classic Edition)
Single-player alternative to Jets'n'Guns Gold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Jets'n'Guns Gold.
Become a mercenary of the future and pilot the super-tech Raptor. Embark on interplanetary missions to knock off top competitors of MegaCorp, battle against hordes of relentless enemies and spend the bounty to expand your devastating arsenal, which can be upgraded with 14 hardcore weapons!
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Strike Force: Desert Thunder
Single-player alternative to Jets'n'Guns Gold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Jets'n'Guns Gold.
Strike Force: Desert Thunder is a small First-Person-Shooter game in the style of old, classic Delta Force games. You join 10 intense, large scale missions to prevent terrorist attacks. Customize your loadout, choose between 12 weapons and jump right into the action. Each Mission is large scale (2km²) and open to your tactical strategy.
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R-Type Final 2
Single-player alternative to Jets'n'Guns Gold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Jets'n'Guns Gold.
R-Type has returned! The legendary side-scroller is back and better than ever with beautifully rendered 3D graphics, exhilarating shoot-'em-up gameplay, and a multitude of stages, ships, and weapons that will allow you to conduct a symphony of destruction upon your foes.
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Rampage Knights
Single-player alternative to Jets'n'Guns Gold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Jets'n'Guns Gold.
Rampage Knights is a cooperative beat 'em up game mixed up with randomized dungeon crawling and exploration, which you can play alone or with a friend online.
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Northmark: Hour of the Wolf
Single-player alternative to Jets'n'Guns Gold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Jets'n'Guns Gold.
Adventure across the lands of Northmark and save your homeland from the plot in this original card RPG.
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Bellfortis
Single-player alternative to Jets'n'Guns Gold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Jets'n'Guns Gold.
Bellfortis is a strategy game from the early Middle Ages. Expand your kingdom, use politics and power. Strategic planning on the map alternates with realtime battles of armies. Play as a grand strategy or on smaller local maps, build, recruit armies and fight!
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Silent Sector
Single-player alternative to Jets'n'Guns Gold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Jets'n'Guns Gold.
Oldschool action open-world sci-fi with a unique storyline, frenetic battles, crude humor, loose morals and cows.
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Loot Hunter
Single-player alternative to Jets'n'Guns Gold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Jets'n'Guns Gold.
Loot Hunter is a fun role-play game from the world full of old ships, pirates and adventures!
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Archibald's Adventures
Single-player alternative to Jets'n'Guns Gold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Jets'n'Guns Gold.
A paranoid computer issued a lock down on a mad scientist's mansion after his experiments and security robots broke loose, and you are trapped inside! Overcome all the pitfalls of the mansion in this action puzzle game! Test your skills and wit in nearly 200 levels!
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Diamond Joyce and the Secret of Crystal Cave
Single-player alternative to Jets'n'Guns Gold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Jets'n'Guns Gold.
Diamond Joyce and the Secret of Crystal Cave is an action puzzle game with quest for long-lost treasures buried in pitch black caves, pyramids and temples of ancient civilizations.