Single-player games like Earthion
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Earthion, 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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GRADIUS ORIGINS
Single-player alternative to Earthion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Earthion.
Salamander III is the newest addition to the Gradius series, a legendary pioneer in the side-scrolling shooter genre, and comes with the original arcade versions of the previous games.
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Habroxia
Single-player alternative to Earthion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Earthion.
Blast your way through a myriad of extra-terrestrial incursions in this arcade-style scrolling shooter! Pilot the ship Habroxia through 15 levels featuring intense boss fights, rescue missions, shifting perspectives, and untold surprises.
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R-Type Dimensions EX
Single-player alternative to Earthion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Earthion.
R-Type and R-Type II, the legendary coin-op space shooters, are now together on Steam!
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Super Arcade Boy in Defender of Planet Earth
Single-player alternative to Earthion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Earthion.
A retro-style classic side-scrolling shoot ’em up. Fly Super Arcade Boy through 8 levels, blast enemy waves, grab power-ups, and take down bosses.
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Batsugun
Single-player alternative to Earthion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Earthion.
Experience the epic conclusion of Toaplan's legendary shooter series with Batsugun including the lauded Special version! Choose your favorite character and spaceship in this thrilling genre-defining bullet-hell action. Now on PC with modern enhancements!
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Syder Arcade
Single-player alternative to Earthion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Earthion.
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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Starr Mazer: DSP
Single-player alternative to Earthion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Earthion.
The UNFP's been kicked in the teeth by a G'ell invasion force and their last and only hope is a planetary outpost and its fleet of experimental DSP MkI Forward Assault Fighters and anyone marshal enough to strap into one and forcefully accept some apologies.
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Beat Invaders
Single-player alternative to Earthion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Earthion.
Beat Invaders is a Vertical Shoot 'Em Up Roguelite - Fight your way through enemy fleets, unlock skills, items, ships, and upgrade them in the next run. Enjoy the smooth neon visuals matching the pushing EDM soundtrack - The perfect game to unwind.
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Streets of Rage 4
Single-player alternative to Earthion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Earthion.
Amongst the best beat’em up series ever created, jammin’ ‘90s beats and over the top street fighting, the iconic series Streets of Rage comes back with a masterful tribute to and revitalization of the classic action fans adore.
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Steredenn: Binary Stars
Single-player alternative to Earthion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Earthion.
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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The TakeOver
Single-player alternative to Earthion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Earthion.
The Takeover is a side-scrolling beat'em up inspired by 90's classics such as Streets of Rage and Final Fight. Battle solo or alongside a friend in local co-op while listening to awesome tunes from Little V Mills, Richie Branson, James Ronald and industry legend Yuzo Koshiro!
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Strike Force: Desert Thunder
Single-player alternative to Earthion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Earthion.
Strike Force: Desert Thunder is a small First-Person-Shooter game in the style of old, classic Delta Force games. You join 10 intense, large scale missions to prevent terrorist attacks. Customize your loadout, choose between 12 weapons and jump right into the action. Each Mission is large scale (2km²) and open to your tactical strategy.
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Area 86
Single-player alternative to Earthion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Earthion.
Area 86 is a physics-based escape room puzzle game. Control your robot in an interactive environment. Push, pick, throw, activate or destroy objects to escape.
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R-Type Final 2
Single-player alternative to Earthion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Earthion.
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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Rolling Gunner
Single-player alternative to Earthion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Earthion.
March 18th, 2061 - "Operation Downfall" Commences With its reliance on BAC, humanity had forgotten how to operate even basic transportation, let alone weapons. After the attacks from BAC and the subsequent social chaos, the human population was reduced by half.
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G-Darius HD
Single-player alternative to Earthion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Earthion.
You will see the creation of new lives... Capture enemies and fire them back at their allies as enormous beams of energy in this horizontally scrolling shooting game, featuring 5 versions of G-Darius with new features, enhancements, and Steam exclusive extras!