Single-player games like Stopping Santa
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Stopping Santa, 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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Zom Tom
Single-player alternative to Stopping Santa — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Stopping Santa.
Zom Tom is a 2.5D shoot' em up dungeon-crawler where you slay zombie bodies, survive the hell-spawn onslaught, and full send copious amounts of lead downrange.
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State of Anarchy: Master of Mayhem
Single-player alternative to Stopping Santa — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Stopping Santa.
Prepare for bullet hell action and crazy driving! Your town is on fire, anarchy reigns the streets, aliens rampage in the sky! Grab your gun and join the fun!
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Wasteland Angel
Single-player alternative to Stopping Santa — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Stopping Santa.
Wasteland Angel is a top-down twin-stick shoot ‘em up arena shooter. Fend off waves and waves of enemies and epic bosses as you try and survive in a post-apocalyptic America. Drive and shoot your way through the wasteland, protecting civilians, completing missions, and surviving another day.
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Time Wasters
Single-player alternative to Stopping Santa — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Stopping Santa.
Time Wasters is a space shooter bullet heaven roguelite. Equip and upgrade weapons, destroy swarms of enemies, and collect Time & Space Cubes to bend the timeline to your advantage.
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Chippy
Single-player alternative to Stopping Santa — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Stopping Santa.
Chip destructible bosses apart pixel-by-pixel in this twin-stick bullet-hell shooter.
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Stellar Interface
Single-player alternative to Stopping Santa — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Stopping Santa.
Run through the universe in this rogue-like-ish space-shooter. Discover the numerous perks/consumables and their synergistic effects. Explore the randomly-generated galaxy to find merchants, unlock spacecrafts, collect Cartridges and checkmark your kills of the various galactic overlords.
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Titan Attacks!
Single-player alternative to Stopping Santa — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Stopping Santa.
As the last surviving tank commander on Earth, single-handedly turn back the evil invading alien army, drive back the Titans across the Solar System, and defeat them on their homeworld... Titan Attacks has the same easy-to-learn and addictive gameplay of the classic arcade shoot 'em up, but is packed full of extras - new features, new...
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ARRIVAL: ZERO EARTH
Single-player alternative to Stopping Santa — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Stopping Santa.
Fight giant War of the Worlds -style aliens invading Finland during a Winter in the 90's. Build an army of local townspeople in this chaotic semi-autobattler roguelike. Navigate through different biomes to obliterate the aliens from cosmic dimensions.