Single-player games like Vortica
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Vortica, 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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Scrapstorm
Single-player alternative to Vortica — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Vortica.
A 1-4 player bullet-heaven roguelite where the whole city is hunting you. Draft cards every level until one pistol turns into a screen-clearing mess, and watch out for the traffic, the third rail and whatever is running each district.
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Gunblade Ranger
Single-player alternative to Vortica — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Vortica.
An action shooting Roguelite focused on relentless attacks and brutal executions. Fight through the wasteland, execute enemies to restore ammo, collect weapons and mutations, and create your own killing build. Local 2 player co-op supported.
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RIFTSTORM
Single-player alternative to Vortica — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Vortica.
RIFTSTORM is a co-op PvE looter-shooter where squads of Weavers deploy to take on missions, fight escalating hordes, collect powerful weapons and resources, and extract.
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Zap Blastum
Single-player alternative to Vortica — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Vortica.
Zap always dreamed of saving the galaxy, and now it's time! Snap into cover, lock onto targets, and outsmart an army of robots in this fast-paced top-down cover shooter. The odds are against you, but anyone can be a hero.
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Dead Broke
Single-player alternative to Vortica — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Vortica.
An arena roguelite where money is your life, your ammo, and your currency. Shoot, gamble, and survive in a casino from hell: every bullet costs, every coin saves you. 13 characters, 5 endings, and local co-op. The House always wins... until you stop owing it.
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Geometry Rift: Apocalypse
Single-player alternative to Vortica — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Vortica.
Imagine the frenetic chaos of Geometry Wars colliding with the addictive progression of Vampire Survivors. That's Geometry Rift — a relentless auto-fire action experience where geometric enemies flood the screen and your only option is to shoot, dodge, and survive.
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Hollow Orbit
Single-player alternative to Vortica — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Vortica.
Loot a dead generation-ship before the dark wakes up and hunts you by scent. A top-down extraction roguelite of greed and the lights going out: kill for cores, carry the power home, escape the BLACKOUT — or push one deck deeper for richer loot and a worse death.
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NINE ROUNDS RAPID
Single-player alternative to Vortica — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Vortica.
Blast your way to freedom, solo or with a friend in online or local co-op, through a possessed, fragmenting space station. Upgrade abilities, mod your weapon builds, and manipulate time to defeat the station's nine gatekeepers. Power up, progress, and learn the ugly truth with every escape attempt.