Single-player games like GALAK-Z
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to GALAK-Z, 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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Starward Rogue
Single-player alternative to GALAK-Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with GALAK-Z.
Starward Rogue is a bullet hell twin-stick shooter. Blast your way through the Megalith, a rogue-lite labyrinth lodged in the side of a star. Customize your mech with a huge variety of weapons, perks, and upgrades. Steel yourself for the dangers that lurk in the depths of the dungeon.
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CRYPTARK
Single-player alternative to GALAK-Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with GALAK-Z.
Cryptark is a 2D sci-fi shooter where you take on the role of a heavily armed privateer seeking to earn government contracts by boarding deadly alien space-hulks. It's up to you to strategize a plan of attack, pick an equipment loadout, and destroy the central core to be victorious.
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Sublevel Zero Redux
Single-player alternative to GALAK-Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with GALAK-Z.
Sublevel Zero Redux is a roguelite six-degree-of-freedom shooter in a universe where reality is falling apart. Use your zero-g gunship to fight through a vast underground facility, looting advanced weapons to destroy hordes of deadly enemies.
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Hell is Other Demons
Single-player alternative to GALAK-Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with GALAK-Z.
Hell is Other Demons is an action-platform shooter, with Roguelite elements. Explore a sprawling, hand-crafted world full of demons, insanely over-the-top boss fights, and a heavy synthwave soundtrack.
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Astebreed: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to GALAK-Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with GALAK-Z.
Climb into the cockpit of an otherworldly war machine and fly into battle against a horrifying alien race bent on eradicating humanity to preserve their own civilization.
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Astral Ascent
Single-player alternative to GALAK-Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with GALAK-Z.
Choose one of four heroes and explore the Garden, an astral prison guarded by 12 powerful mystical bosses: the Zodiacs. Challenge them with dozens of unique spells and faithful friends by your side to unfold the story of this platform roguelite with lightning fast combat.
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Mega City Force
Single-player alternative to GALAK-Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with GALAK-Z.
Retrowave Action Roguelike featuring tough agents battling crime to the electrifying music of artists like Droid Bishop, Timecop1983, and more! Choose your agent and dive into hardcore action against enemies and bosses, utilizing a vast arsenal and special abilities that will define your playstyle
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I Hate Running Backwards
Single-player alternative to GALAK-Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with GALAK-Z.
I Hate Running Backwards is a never-ending adrenaline packed shoot'em down roguelite that puts the emphasis on destruction and fighting never ending waves of enemies while time traveling through procedurally generated worlds!
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The Binding of Isaac
Single-player alternative to GALAK-Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with GALAK-Z.
Now 20% More Evil with the Free Halloween update!
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LUFTRAUSERS
Single-player alternative to GALAK-Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with GALAK-Z.
The skies are aflame and the seas will overflow with wreckage in Vlambeer’s stylish arcade shooter LUFTRAUSERS! Take to the skies in customized fighter planes to battle battleships, submarines, and rival aces for glory, honor, and high scores.
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MACROSS -Shooting Insight-
Single-player alternative to GALAK-Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with GALAK-Z.
Introducing an all-new Macross game, the latest entry in the landmark science fiction franchise! Embark upon a galaxy-spanning mission to rescue the missing songstresses!
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Skulls of the Shogun
Single-player alternative to GALAK-Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with GALAK-Z.
Enter the Samurai Afterlife and join forces with vibrant ghost-samurai warriors, magical animal monks, and mustachioed samurai generals. It's fast-paced turn-based strategy inspired by Advance Wars, and supercharged with fighting-game flare!
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Song in the Smoke
Single-player alternative to GALAK-Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with GALAK-Z.
Using the power of virtual reality, Song in the Smoke puts your survival directly in your own hands. Enter this dangerous world outside of time, where you must craft weapons, make clothes, build fires, and brew healing elixirs to steel yourself against its vicious predators.