Single-player games like Platypus
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Platypus, 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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Apidya' Special
Single-player alternative to Platypus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Platypus.
Apidya is making a comeback in this authentic 24-bit pixel remake, built from the ground up, but utterly faithful to the original.
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Major Hoof
Single-player alternative to Platypus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Platypus.
The game is a 2D pixel-art shooter with both horizontal and vertical scrolling, featuring bullet hell elements. It combines a pixel-art aesthetic inspired by classic Amiga titles, fast-paced combat, and subtle skeletal animations in the background - creating a unique retro atmosphere!
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Rutabaga Desert Storm
Single-player alternative to Platypus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Platypus.
Lead the vegetable revolution alone or with a friend in the side-scrolling shoot ‘em up Rutabaga Desert Storm! Take down wave after wave of enemies, dodge their projectiles, and grab power-ups to boost your destruction! Can you defeat the oppressive humans and free the proletariat vegetable masses?
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Really Big Sky
Single-player alternative to Platypus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Platypus.
A super fast, twin analogue shooter for the modern age!
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Shoot 1UP DX
Single-player alternative to Platypus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Platypus.
Why play shoot 'em ups one ship at a time? Launch them all at once! Unleash an entire armada of ships in Shoot 1UP!
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Enemy Mind
Single-player alternative to Platypus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Platypus.
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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Gunboat God
Single-player alternative to Platypus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Platypus.
Become the all-powerful Gunboat God in this fluid shoot 'em up. Carve the waves as you stylishly fight hordes of monsters in hundreds of quick-fire missions. Transform your Gunboat and upgrade your weapons, skills and abilities to take on giant, challenging, multi-stage bosses!
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Jets'n'Guns Gold
Single-player alternative to Platypus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Platypus.
Jets'n'Guns is a heavy piece of ground shaking rock blasting action with graphics and special effects that will blow you eyes out! Enjoy yourself in almost-insane action adventure of saving the universe from the deadly threat of more than 270 unique monsters in the campaign of 43 levels.
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Platypus II
Single-player alternative to Platypus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Platypus.
Fly the famed Platypus fighter through a fantastic landscape of carefully molded clay to protect inhabitants of Mungola from the Collosatropolians! Collect power-ups and bonus stars to give your Platypus the boost you need. Every level of this gorgeous arcade challenge bursts with original fun that's perfect for gamers of all ages.
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Zero Wing
Single-player alternative to Platypus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Platypus.
Defend the galaxy from vicious space pirates! Seize your foes and fire them back at their allies for devastating destruction in Toaplan's legendary horizontal arcade shooter, now on PC with all-new features and quality-of-life bonuses!