Single-player games like Project X: Light Years
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Project X: Light Years, 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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Rigid Force Alpha
Single-player alternative to Project X: Light Years — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Project X: Light Years.
Classic shoot’em up action in modern 3D! Blast off to take down hordes of infected aliens and dreadful machines programmed on waging an intergalactic war against mankind!
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Crisis Wing
Single-player alternative to Project X: Light Years — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Project X: Light Years.
Crisis Wing is 90's style vertically scrolling arcade shooter. Master 7 intense vertical stages, and take down massive bosses. Play solo or with a friend in local co-op. Get ready for pure, high-octane action.
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Platypus Reclayed
Single-player alternative to Project X: Light Years — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Project X: Light Years.
22 years after its first appearance, the iconic Platypus is coming back, featuring updated gameplay, new weapons and additional content. Get ready to dive into the heart-pounding action of this fast, frantic, and incredibly fun arcade-style shoot-em-up!
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Jets'n'Guns 2
Single-player alternative to Project X: Light Years — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Project X: Light Years.
Jets'n'Guns 2 is a side-scrolling space shooter with insane levels of action and destruction. Travel the galaxies and unleash an arsenal of the deadliest weapons and devices to save the universe from its inevitable doom.
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R-Type Final 2
Single-player alternative to Project X: Light Years — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Project X: Light Years.
R-Type has returned! The legendary side-scroller is back and better than ever with beautifully rendered 3D graphics, exhilarating shoot-'em-up gameplay, and a multitude of stages, ships, and weapons that will allow you to conduct a symphony of destruction upon your foes.
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Earthion
Single-player alternative to Project X: Light Years — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Project X: Light Years.
Earthion is a side-scrolling space shooter developed natively for 16-bit systems. Guide space fighter pilot Azusa Takanashi in her fight to repel the alien invaders and save planet Earth.
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Space Invaders Extreme
Single-player alternative to Project X: Light Years — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Project X: Light Years.
The critically acclaimed update to the Space Invaders franchise has arrived to invade Steam with greatly improved graphics and audio! Packed with pulsing, vibrant visuals enhanced further by interactive sound. The invaders have evolved, the question is: can you keep up?
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Nebulock
Single-player alternative to Project X: Light Years — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Project X: Light Years.
Nebulock is a short bullet-hell game with intense gameplay, where the player must destroy bosses made of blocks, collect resources and upgrade his spaceship.
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Alien Breed: Impact
Single-player alternative to Project X: Light Years — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Project X: Light Years.
Experience the explosive science fiction arcade-shooter that resurrects a much revered franchise in an epic single player and co-op multiplayer campaign.