Single-player games like Drifting Lands
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Drifting Lands, 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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Steredenn: Binary Stars
Single-player alternative to Drifting Lands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Drifting Lands.
Steredenn is a frenetic and chaotic space shooter, carved in big beautiful pixels, with insane boss battles. Embark in your ship and engage the fight against dreadful space pirates in a never-ending combat for your survival.
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Asteroid Bounty Hunter
Single-player alternative to Drifting Lands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Drifting Lands.
Asteroid Bounty Hunter is a space shooter mixed with interesting boss fights and breathtaking visuals, with a reward system to take your skill to another level.
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Syder Arcade
Single-player alternative to Drifting Lands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Drifting Lands.
Killing zombies never gets old, but sometimes you just need a break. Get back to some serious old-school gaming with Syder Arcade! Syder Arcade is a love letter to Amiga games of the ‘90s, no coins, no upgrade grinding, just your tenacity and a motherload of alien invaders.
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Deathsmiles
Single-player alternative to Drifting Lands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Drifting Lands.
Deathsmiles is CAVE's bullet-hell shoot-'em-up where you take the role of one of five Angels to defend the magical land of Gilverado from an invasion by Hell itself! Eradicate this devilish assault!
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Sine Mora
Single-player alternative to Drifting Lands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Drifting Lands.
Sine Mora is a horizontal shoot'em up that provides a unique take on challenge, where time is the ultimate factor.
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Jets'n'Guns 2
Single-player alternative to Drifting Lands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Drifting Lands.
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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LUFTRAUSERS
Single-player alternative to Drifting Lands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Drifting Lands.
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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ARMED SEVEN
Single-player alternative to Drifting Lands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Drifting Lands.
The year is 1989. 12 years have passed since the Gogoh Army’s invasion of Earth. Exposure to alien technology during the war enabled Earth’s own technologies to take massive leaps forward. International conflict that was previously rife in the history of mankind fell to an all-time low, and the Earth Federation was established as a...
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Moss
Single-player alternative to Drifting Lands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Drifting Lands.
Moss is an action-adventure puzzle game from Polyarc tailor-made for the VR platform. It combines classic components of a great game—compelling characters, gripping combat, and captivating world exploration—with the exciting opportunities of VR.
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Cave Story+
Single-player alternative to Drifting Lands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Drifting Lands.
Run, jump, shoot, fly and explore your way through a massive action-adventure reminiscent of classic 8- and 16-bit games.
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Rev
Single-player alternative to Drifting Lands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Drifting Lands.
Become a fox and work together with your pack to hunt down a variety of different animals in the overgrown ruins of an ancient civilization. Unlock new skills and watch the seasons change around you in this small pixel game.
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R-Type Final 2
Single-player alternative to Drifting Lands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Drifting Lands.
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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Diablo® IV
Single-player alternative to Drifting Lands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Drifting Lands.
Join the fight for Sanctuary in Diablo® IV, the ultimate action RPG adventure. Experience the critically acclaimed campaign and new seasonal content.
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Foretales
Single-player alternative to Drifting Lands — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Decide the fate of the world in this ingenious story-driven card game. Foretales offers a unique take on the adventure genre, with a multitude of playstyles and story paths through which you can save the world… or bring about its end.
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An Ankou
Single-player alternative to Drifting Lands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Drifting Lands.
Death is not the end. You’ve been chosen as the Ankou, a servant of Death who aids lost souls using the tools of your old trade. Roam haunted lands to find resources, craft weapons, and slay hordes of demons in this action-exploration roguelike.
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Transcripted
Single-player alternative to Drifting Lands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Drifting Lands.
After 3 years, Transcripted the illegitimate son of Zuma and Geometry Wars is finally back on Steam. Discover now this unique mix of twin stick shooter and match-3 with its twisted mechanics and original story.