Single-player games like Salvage
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Salvage, 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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Astral Blitz
Single-player alternative to Salvage — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Salvage.
Astral Blitz is a roguelite, twin stick shooter. Control your fighter ship and wreak devastation through the hordes of empire defenses. Create your own play style as you customize your ship to your needs, setting it up for brutal destruction, refined precision, or to become chaos incarnate!
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RITUAL
Single-player alternative to Salvage — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Salvage.
RITUAL is a cyber-occult action roguelite where you survive escalating waves, forge devastating builds through sci-fi weapons, rhythm-breaking tech, and reality-altering Fonts, and battle five bosses inside the Martian terradome of TRA-3.
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ASHER Descent
Single-player alternative to Salvage — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Salvage.
Go down. Get stronger. Come back alive. Mine the mountain. Defend your shuttle. Adapt or get overrun.
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Deep Space Survivor: Endless Starfield
Single-player alternative to Salvage — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Salvage.
"Deep Space Survivor: Endless Starfield" is a survivor-style game. Your interstellar battleship accidentally enters an unknown universe, fighting its way through endless enemies, roaming multiple star systems, and collecting meteor resources to forge your ultimate orbital weapon.
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Geometry Rift: Apocalypse
Single-player alternative to Salvage — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Salvage.
Imagine the frenetic chaos of Geometry Wars colliding with the addictive progression of Vampire Survivors. That's Geometry Rift — a relentless auto-fire action experience where geometric enemies flood the screen and your only option is to shoot, dodge, and survive.
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Astral Lords
Single-player alternative to Salvage — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Salvage.
Shatter genre boundaries in this sci-fi survival Roguelite blending bullet-hell action and base-building RTS. Dodge and unleash screen-clearing firepower against alien hordes, while constructing fortresses and real-time automated defenses to crush your enemies.
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Starforged Legacy
Single-player alternative to Salvage — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Salvage.
Outlast the onslaught in a sci-fi survivors-like where your decisions matter as much as your firepower. Command customizable starships, enhance your arsenal with 100+ strategy-defining upgrades, and annihilate endless fleets of cosmic combatants! Carve your legacy among the stars or die trying!
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Blasteroids
Single-player alternative to Salvage — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Salvage.
Blast your way through waves of space debris in order to reach what is waiting for you on the other side. Find your fighting style with multiple unlockable ships in this fast paced space adventure!