Single-player games like Cosmic Tempest
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Cosmic Tempest, 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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GUNFIELD
Single-player alternative to Cosmic Tempest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cosmic Tempest.
GUNFIELD – A game that combines the genres: shoot 'em up, roguelite. Choose the perfect weapon combinations and upgrade your ship to destroy hordes of enemies and giant bosses, using strategy and a powerful arsenal.
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Metal Thunder
Single-player alternative to Cosmic Tempest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Cosmic Tempest.
Command the legendary gunship in a high-octane action-roguelite! Engage insurgents with devastating firepower in ever-changing missions. Upgrade your arsenal, adapt to dynamic challenges, and survive relentless waves of enemies. Every run offers new tactics and chaos as you dominate the skies.
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Thunder Wolves
Single-player alternative to Cosmic Tempest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cosmic Tempest.
When this “wolf pack” strikes, you hear the thunder roll. The Thunder Wolves attack from the air. They are mercenaries, and the best helicopter pilots in the world. Every one of them is ready for action at all times—and ready to fight evil, wherever it lurks.
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UFO 50
Single-player alternative to Cosmic Tempest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Cosmic Tempest.
UFO 50 is a collection of 50 single and multiplayer games that span a variety of genres, from platformers and shoot 'em ups to puzzle games, roguelites, and RPGs. Our goal is to combine a familiar 8-bit aesthetic with new ideas and modern game design.
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Rebel Galaxy
Single-player alternative to Cosmic Tempest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cosmic Tempest.
Rebel Galaxy is a swashbuckling space adventure, with action-packed combat, exploration, discovery, trade, and “negotiation” with the outlandish denizens at the edge of the known universe.
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8-Bit Armies
Single-player alternative to Cosmic Tempest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cosmic Tempest.
8-Bit Armies is a retro Real-Time Strategy game. With a colorful, blocky voxel art style, 8-Bit Armies is Petroglyph's most fast-paced, friendly, and accessible RTS game to date. Featuring a campaign of 25 single-player missions, 12 co-op missions, multiplayer and skirmish modes.
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Objects in Space
Single-player alternative to Cosmic Tempest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Cosmic Tempest.
Objects in Space is a retro space game centred on 2D point-and-click stealth action in a massive open world. Players have their own customisable ships and can meet people, become a trader, bounty hunter, explorer, scavenger or all of them at once.
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Sanctum
Single-player alternative to Cosmic Tempest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Cosmic Tempest.
You think Tower Defense games are all about building? You thought wrong. Sanctum is not your average Tower Defense title. When the havoc starts, you get to join the fray! As one of the world’s first First Person Shooter - Tower Defense games, Sanctum has taken the best of both worlds to deliver an epic, one-of-a-kind experience.
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Dark PGT
Single-player alternative to Cosmic Tempest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cosmic Tempest.
Dark PGT – A Souls-like game in an alternate universe of future USSR on Unreal Engine 5. You will play the role of alcoholic-schizophrenic experiencing psychological disorders and hallucinations. Travel to a village in 2030 to unravel all its secrets and solve all its problems.
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Dark Dominion
Single-player alternative to Cosmic Tempest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Cosmic Tempest.
Dark Dominion is a grim Souls-like tale of a man who lost everything. His wife dies giving birth, his daughter seven years later of pneumonia. Broken, he goes to war and falls. Death drags him into a twisted afterworld where he must find the souls of his wife and child — or fade with the shadows.
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Chernobyl Trap
Single-player alternative to Cosmic Tempest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cosmic Tempest.
You are survived pilot of fallen helicopter. Your mission is simple: go to evacuation point. But can you do it and not die?
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Magical Runes
Single-player alternative to Cosmic Tempest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cosmic Tempest.
Three ruthless kings have declared war on your lands!
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Underwater Cycling
Single-player alternative to Cosmic Tempest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Cosmic Tempest.
**Underwater Cycling** takes you on an exhilarating underwater adventure where you as main character race on high-tech bicycles that glide through the ocean's depths.
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Gladiator Fights
Single-player alternative to Cosmic Tempest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cosmic Tempest.
Hold the Line. Command the Fight. Survive the Chaos.
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Go Babies
Single-player alternative to Cosmic Tempest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cosmic Tempest.
Welcome to *Go Babies*, the ultimate baby racing extravaganza!
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Run Naked Woman Run
Single-player alternative to Cosmic Tempest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Cosmic Tempest.
2d platformer. Play as almost naked woman character. Avoid objects and enemies and find level end, which contain mystery object