Single-player games like Retro Wave
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Retro Wave, 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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Radical Road
Single-player alternative to Retro Wave — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Retro Wave.
A casual, one button, arcade game about getting a car to go as far as it can on an infinite procedurally generated road, while collecting coins.
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Interstate Drifter 1999
Single-player alternative to Retro Wave — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Retro Wave.
Drift between the states, collect bits, beat rivals and get a high score.
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Quible Sphere
Single-player alternative to Retro Wave — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Retro Wave.
Roll through 40 different levels that increase in difficulty, avoiding several obstacles and using powerups in order to get to the end of each level!
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OutWave: Retro chase
Single-player alternative to Retro Wave — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Retro Wave.
Endless car chase is a fast retro style paced game in which you must collect money and avoid the cops! The game supports Windows, Mac, Linux. Use keyboard or gamepad. Buy and control a cars or motorbikes. Listen to retro music and don't get caught by the cops! The game looks like a gif!
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Astral Tracks
Single-player alternative to Retro Wave — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Retro Wave.
Astral Tracks is a precise and competitive 3D platforming speedrunner where you run, dash, slide, swing and wall run your way to victory. Compete against friends locally or online and refine your runs to top the leaderboards for each procedurally generated track!
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Outmode
Single-player alternative to Retro Wave — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Retro Wave.
A Synthwave themed arcade racer featuring a retro-futuristic neon aesthetic of the beaches, cities and highways of the 1980s - do battle against legendary cars and let the good times roll.
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Neon Bricks
Single-player alternative to Retro Wave — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Retro Wave.
Neon Bricks is a arcade style game where you can't drop the ball. To reach your goal you need to destroy all the bricks.
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Neon Blast
Single-player alternative to Retro Wave — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Retro Wave.
Neon Blast - A head-scratching puzzle game
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Vacuum Uprising
Single-player alternative to Retro Wave — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Retro Wave.
Rip the ground from under your feet and hurl it at your enemies! Vacuum Uprising is a pixel-perfect destruction platformer with physics-based combat, epic boss fights, and local multiplayer for up to 4 players.