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Single-player games like PixelJunk™ Shooter Ultimate

Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to PixelJunk™ Shooter Ultimate, 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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    PixelJunk™ Shooter — Steam game cover

    PixelJunk™ Shooter

    Single-player alternative to PixelJunk™ Shooter Ultimate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with PixelJunk™ Shooter Ultimate.

    In PixelJunk™ Shooter, you must pilot your spacecraft through a range of cavernous environments in a bid to save the scientists trapped underground. Making your way through the game will rely on your keen sense of observation and the ability to manipulate your surroundings.

    2013Action8.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Assault Android Cactus+ — Steam game cover

    Assault Android Cactus+

    Single-player alternative to PixelJunk™ Shooter Ultimate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with PixelJunk™ Shooter Ultimate.

    Assault Android Cactus is an intense arcade style twin stick shooter - pick from one of nine unique synthetic heroines and blast your way through overwhelming robots hordes to save the ship from its own workforce. Supports single player and local co-op game modes.

    2015ActionIndie19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Beat Hazard — Steam game cover

    Beat Hazard

    Single-player alternative to PixelJunk™ Shooter Ultimate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with PixelJunk™ Shooter Ultimate.

    Experience your music collection like never before with this intense music driven arcade shooter. Each of your songs will have its own unique ebb and flow based on the music.

    2010ActionIndieCasual9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Renegade Ops — Steam game cover

    Renegade Ops

    Single-player alternative to PixelJunk™ Shooter Ultimate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with PixelJunk™ Shooter Ultimate.

    Blast your way through enemy lines to defeat Inferno, a madman intent on global domination. Destruction just got awesome.

    2011Action3.39 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Crimsonland — Steam game cover

    Crimsonland

    Single-player alternative to PixelJunk™ Shooter Ultimate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with PixelJunk™ Shooter Ultimate.

    Thousands of aliens, giant spiders, mutant lizards, and more are on the attack - can you survive the onslaught? Crimsonland is a top-down shooter with a touch of RPG. Unlock over 30 weapons and over 50 perks from quirky to brutal. Complete the quest and show your skills in five survival modes.

    2014ActionIndieRPG13.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Nex Machina — Steam game cover

    Nex Machina

    Single-player alternative to PixelJunk™ Shooter Ultimate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with PixelJunk™ Shooter Ultimate.

    Nex Machina is an intense arcade style twin-stick shooter from Housemarque. Taking hints from both Robotron and Smash TV, Nex Machina focuses on pure action, voxel destruction and competition in the distant, cablepunk themed future.

    2017ActionIndie19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Galacide — Steam game cover

    Galacide

    Single-player alternative to PixelJunk™ Shooter Ultimate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with PixelJunk™ Shooter Ultimate.

    Command destructive spaceships to obliterate hordes of enemy vessels, while quickly solving puzzles to weave through networks of vibrantly colorful, adversarial machines!

    2015ActionIndie9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Sektori — Steam game cover

    Sektori

    Single-player alternative to PixelJunk™ Shooter Ultimate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with PixelJunk™ Shooter Ultimate.

    Sektori is an intense, fast paced twin-stick shooter infused with hard hitting techno music. A game where the high-adrenaline gameplay, visuals, and music come together to transport you into another state of consciousness.

    2025Action14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Jet Set Radio — Steam game cover

    Jet Set Radio

    Single-player alternative to PixelJunk™ Shooter Ultimate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with PixelJunk™ Shooter Ultimate.

    Tag, grind, and trick to the beat in SEGA’s hit game Jet Set Radio!

    2012ActionDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    PixelJunk™ Nom Nom Galaxy — Steam game cover

    PixelJunk™ Nom Nom Galaxy

    Single-player alternative to PixelJunk™ Shooter Ultimate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with PixelJunk™ Shooter Ultimate.

    Welcome to SoupCo, Astroworker! In Nom Nom Galaxy, construct and automate gigantic soup factories on unexplored planets throughout the universe, harvest flora and fauna to turn them into artisanal soups, and rocket your product into the gullets of the galaxy!

    2015ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    PixelJunk™ Monsters Ultimate — Steam game cover

    PixelJunk™ Monsters Ultimate

    Single-player alternative to PixelJunk™ Shooter Ultimate — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    Tikiman the Forest Defender is in trouble. Hordes of monsters are sweeping through his realm, hoping to chow down on his offspring – and it’s up to you to defend them. By placing weapon towers at strategic points around the landscape, you can destroy the invaders and save the little ones.

    2013Strategy9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    PixelJunk™ Eden — Steam game cover

    PixelJunk™ Eden

    Single-player alternative to PixelJunk™ Shooter Ultimate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with PixelJunk™ Shooter Ultimate.

    Swing, climb, and jump your way through massive “gardens” of vibrant other-worldly plant-life in this truly organic platformer.

    2012ActionIndieCasual9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    PixelJunk™ Monsters 2 — Steam game cover

    PixelJunk™ Monsters 2

    Single-player alternative to PixelJunk™ Shooter Ultimate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with PixelJunk™ Shooter Ultimate.

    PixelJunk™ Monsters is back with the simple, yet highly strategic real-time tower defense gameplay gameplay of the original title, now with updated graphics and brand new multiplayer modes!

    2018Action1.49 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Dead Hungry — Steam game cover

    Dead Hungry

    Single-player alternative to PixelJunk™ Shooter Ultimate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with PixelJunk™ Shooter Ultimate.

    Dead Hungry is a fast-paced VR game developed by Q-Games, creators of the PixelJunk series. Restore zombies to human form by loading up huge hamburgers and hurling them to the grateful undead. Your weapons of choice are burgers, pizza, fries--and anything else you can pick up!

    2016ActionIndieCasual7.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    PixelJunk™ Scrappers Deluxe — Steam game cover

    PixelJunk™ Scrappers Deluxe

    Single-player alternative to PixelJunk™ Shooter Ultimate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with PixelJunk™ Shooter Ultimate.

    Clean up the streets of Junktown as a team of robot garbage collectors. Trash your opponents with up to 4 players or go it alone in this beat ‘em up that’s also a clean ‘em up!

    2023ActionIndieCasual14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →