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Single-player games like GALAK-Z

Below are 16 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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    Mercenary Battle Company: The Reapers — Steam game cover

    Mercenary Battle Company: The Reapers

    Single-player alternative to GALAK-Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with GALAK-Z.

    Join the race for Ether! Mercenary Battle Company: The Reapers is a fast-paced, roguelite, bullet heaven game in a sci-fi setting. Choose your pilots, customize and upgrade your Mecha Robots, and survive against endless swarms of Xeni. Will you survive long enough?

    2024ActionIndieCasual4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Starward Rogue — Steam game cover

    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.

    2016ActionIndieRPG11.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    TOP DOG — Steam game cover

    TOP DOG

    Single-player alternative to GALAK-Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with GALAK-Z.

    Dogfight your way through short, intense and randomized runs. Hard but easy to pickup, with daily leaderboards and minimum hardware requirements

    2025ActionSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    HYPERGUN — Steam game cover

    HYPERGUN

    Single-player alternative to GALAK-Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with GALAK-Z.

    Fight through waves of alien interlopers and save the world as Dewey Owens in HYPERGUN, a fast-paced roguelite shooter centering around a procedural weapon of questionable effectiveness. Enter the simulation. Build the HYPERGUN!

    2018ActionIndie9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    CRYPTARK — Steam game cover

    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.

    2017ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Hades — Steam game cover

    Hades

    Single-player alternative to GALAK-Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with GALAK-Z.

    Defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash out of the Underworld in this rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre.

    2020ActionIndieRPG24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Stardust Galaxy Warriors: Stellar Climax — Steam game cover

    Stardust Galaxy Warriors: Stellar Climax

    Single-player alternative to GALAK-Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with GALAK-Z.

    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!

    2015ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Immortal Redneck — Steam game cover

    Immortal Redneck

    Single-player alternative to GALAK-Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with GALAK-Z.

    Immortal Redneck is a FPS set in Egypt with rogue-lite elements. Frantic gameplay, twitch controls and an arcade-style feel meet randomly generated dungeons, a complete skill tree, permanent death and 9 classes with different traits.

    2017ActionIndie19.95 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Binding of Isaac — Steam game cover

    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!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure1.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    LUFTRAUSERS — Steam game cover

    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.

    2014ActionIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    AsteroidsHD — Steam game cover

    AsteroidsHD

    Single-player alternative to GALAK-Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with GALAK-Z.

    Engage in space-warfare with your friends and foes! Dodge and destroy asteroids while trying to stay alive in multiplayer! Replay value is endless with massive combinations of in-game ship upgrades, modifications, and customization. Destroy Asteroids and Aliens to gain the edge!

    2016ActionIndieSimulation0.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    DreamWorks Voltron VR Chronicles — Steam game cover

    DreamWorks Voltron VR Chronicles

    Single-player alternative to GALAK-Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with GALAK-Z.

    Become a Paladin of Voltron and experience a unique story created exclusively for VR. Join Lance, Hunk, Pidge, Keith, and Shiro from DreamWorks’ “Voltron: Legendary Defender” as you battle dangerous intergalactic threats!

    2017ActionAdventureCasual9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    MACROSS -Shooting Insight- — Steam game cover

    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!

    2024Action39.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Skulls of the Shogun — Steam game cover

    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!

    2013StrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Song in the Smoke — Steam game cover

    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.

    2021ActionAdventureSimulation29.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Awaysis — Steam game cover

    Awaysis

    Single-player alternative to GALAK-Z — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with GALAK-Z.

    The ultimate physics-based dungeon brawler. Surf hilly terrain to build up speed, and unleash momentum-based mayhem against the Dark Lord of Darkness in a slapstick solo or co-op adventure!

    ActionIndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →