Single-player games like Orbital Gear
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Orbital Gear, 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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Off the Beaten Track
Single-player alternative to Orbital Gear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Orbital Gear.
A couch/online multiplayer party game for 2–4 players. Choose from a roster of unique characters, each with their own weapons and abilities, and compete in intense versus matches on varied space arenas filled with environmental hazards.
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Strike Vector
Single-player alternative to Orbital Gear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Orbital Gear.
"Strike Vector is gorgeous shooter with strong mechanics and lots of customisation" 7.7/10 – IGN"it more than makes up for by being a gorgeous, intensely competitive experience that matches its aesthetic appeal with pure shooter satisfaction"– 7.
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Enemy Mind
Single-player alternative to Orbital Gear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Orbital Gear.
A retro shooter with a new power: the power to become any ship.Lost in the depths of space, you are a being of pure psychic energy with the uncanny power to take over and control anything you see in order to survive.Built for PC, Enemy Mind lets you battle your way through 70+ waves of challenging enemies.
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Strike Vector EX
Single-player alternative to Orbital Gear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Orbital Gear.
Strike Vector EX is a competitive first-person aerial-combat game that satisfies every gamer’s dream of waging dizzying dogfights with super-powered aircraft. Bursting with mech-inspired ships, Ragequit’s game brings a story-based single-player campaign with characters, cutscenes and deadly AI.
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Strike Suit Infinity
Single-player alternative to Orbital Gear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Orbital Gear.
Strike Suit Infinity is a frantic high score chaser set in the Strike Suit Zero universe. Your skill is the only thing that matters and whatever combat experience you've had so far is irrelevant. There is no end to the enemies you'll face. There is no winning. There is only the fight for survival.
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Stardust Galaxy Warriors: Stellar Climax
Single-player alternative to Orbital Gear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Orbital Gear.
Stardust Galaxy Warriors: Stellar Climax is a fast-paced couch co-op action shooter with SHMUP/Brawler gameplay and RPG elements. Choose your mechs, weapons & upgrades then soar through space, defeat evil & save the future... from itself!
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Victory Saber 2D
Single-player alternative to Orbital Gear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Orbital Gear.
Victory Saber 2D is a horizontal scrolling shooter arcade video game with Locking-on shooting mechanic.
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Another Generic Space Shooter
Single-player alternative to Orbital Gear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Orbital Gear.
Choose your ship and command it against an army pitted against you in this wave-based arcade-style bullet hell space shooter. Fight for as long as you can with powerups acquired through the catalog, and blast through everything in your path.
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Quake
Single-player alternative to Orbital Gear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Orbital Gear.
Developed by the award-winning id Software, Quake® is the ground-breaking, original dark fantasy first-person shooter that inspires today’s retro-style FPS games. With Quake (Enhanced), experience the authentic, updated, and visually enhanced version of the original.
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Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition
Single-player alternative to Orbital Gear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Orbital Gear.
Unreal Tournament is the original King of the Hill in the frag-or-be-fragged multiplayer gaming world. As the undisputed 1999 Game of the Year, Unreal Tournament grabbed the first person shooter genre by the soiled seat of its pants and knocked it around the room with its never-before-seen graphics, brutal edge-of-your-seat gameplay and...
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Titanfall - The Final Hours
Single-player alternative to Orbital Gear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Orbital Gear.
Written over the past four years, journalist Geoff Keighley ("The Final Hours of Portal 2") chronicles the making of TITANFALL from Respawn Entertainment. This longform app features never-before-seen photos, video and concept art from early development versions of the game.
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Robonauts
Single-player alternative to Orbital Gear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Orbital Gear.
Shoot through storms of weird and funny creatures, jump between planets by switching gravity, and relive the childhood fun of your very first arcade shooters - alone or with a friend in co-op!
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Soldat
Single-player alternative to Orbital Gear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Orbital Gear.
Soldat is a unique 2D (side-view) multiplayer action game. Soldiers fight against each other in 2D battle arenas using a deadly arsenal of military weapons, across 7 default game modes.
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Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid
Single-player alternative to Orbital Gear — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Orbital Gear.
Generations of Power Rangers collide across the multiverse’s 25 year history. Experience authentic, but reimagined Power Rangers gameplay. This easy to learn, but hard to master fighting game is designed to welcome players of all skill levels.