Single-player games like Planetoid Pioneers
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Planetoid Pioneers, 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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Cortex Command
Single-player alternative to Planetoid Pioneers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Planetoid Pioneers.
Choose between different factions, with their own set of expendable soldiers, mechas, and weapons. Protect your brain, mine gold, and destroy the enemy cortex in his bunker complex!
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Superfighters Deluxe
Single-player alternative to Planetoid Pioneers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Planetoid Pioneers.
Superfighters Deluxe is a unique action game that combines brawling, shooting and platforming in dynamic sandboxy 2D levels. Lots of weapons and fun gameplay systems interlock to create absurd action-movie chaos.
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Serious Sam's Bogus Detour
Single-player alternative to Planetoid Pioneers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Planetoid Pioneers.
Serious Sam’s Bogus Detour is an all-new action-adventure in the legendary Serious Sam saga from Hammerwatch developer Crackshell.
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Heavenly Bodies
Single-player alternative to Planetoid Pioneers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Planetoid Pioneers.
Wrangle the hands and arms of a 1970s space cosmonaut and push, pull and twist your way through an increasingly precarious range of physically simulated stellar scenarios, where without gravity, nothing is still, nothing is secure, and nothing is simple.
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Bang-On Balls: Chronicles
Single-player alternative to Planetoid Pioneers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Planetoid Pioneers.
A quirky, absolutely content-packed, destructible open-world sandbox adventure with combat, platforming, character customization, and collect-a-thon scavenger hunt experience. Play solo, 2-player split screen, or online co-op for up to 4 players. No paid cosmetic DLC nonsense.
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Infernax
Single-player alternative to Planetoid Pioneers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Planetoid Pioneers.
Infernax is the adventures of a great knight who returns to his homeland only to find it plagued with unholy magic. Uncover the mysteries of the curse and face the consequences of your actions.
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Prodeus
Single-player alternative to Planetoid Pioneers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Planetoid Pioneers.
Prodeus is a first-person shooter of old, re-imagined using modern rendering techniques and technology. Experience the quality you’d expect from a modern AAA game, designed with retro aesthetics and gameplay that invoke the tech-imposed limits of older hardware.
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Wulverblade
Single-player alternative to Planetoid Pioneers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Planetoid Pioneers.
Defeat the Ninth Legion of the Roman army in this side-scrolling, arcade-inspired beat 'em up set in Roman-era Britain.
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Planetoid Pioneers Online
Single-player alternative to Planetoid Pioneers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Planetoid Pioneers.
Extreme 2D physics action with detailed destruction of vehicles, robots, creatures, and your own Pioneer - now over ONLINE multiplayer! Quickly jump into a dozen different game modes hosted on free servers worldwide to battle, cooperate, race, and survive with/against other Pioneers all over the globe!