Single-player games like Tempest Lost
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Tempest Lost, 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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Earth: 9000
Single-player alternative to Tempest Lost — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Tempest Lost.
Defend the Earth in this hyper intense, visually overwhelming, bullet hell, arcade shooter.
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Running Riot
Single-player alternative to Tempest Lost — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Tempest Lost.
Pick a class and blast your way through rooms of cyber enemies in this roguelite action shooter! Choose your abilities and your path wisely, because you've only got one life to make it through the gauntlet. Rack up those points and spend them on even more ways to RIOT!
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Breach the Abyss
Single-player alternative to Tempest Lost — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Tempest Lost.
A sci-fi wave-based roguelite where you play as a rogue janitor in an overrun space facility. Fight through hordes of alien creatures, and find powerful upgrades to augment your abilities. In death, piece together your memories, and come back stronger. A grand reward awaits you in the Abyss...
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The Last Camp : Dawn
Single-player alternative to Tempest Lost — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Tempest Lost.
The Last Camp is a post-apocalyptic world-themed game. It utilizes high-quality graphics, a rich weapon and item system, and a vast world map to create a cross-generational twin-stick shooter, bringing a feast to hardcore shooter players.
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Devileader
Single-player alternative to Tempest Lost — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Tempest Lost.
Devileader, a fearsome space demon who once have destroyed countless planets of the solar system is about to be resurrected by his minions and fanatics, who want to bring chaos to the universe. Pilot the agile space interceptor Deviship and survive the terror of this demon lord.
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HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition
Single-player alternative to Tempest Lost — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Tempest Lost.
HELLDIVERS™ is a hardcore, cooperative, twin stick shooter. As part of the elite unit called the HELLDIVERS, players must work together to protect SUPER EARTH and defeat the enemies of mankind in an intense intergalactic war.
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Alien Swarm
Single-player alternative to Tempest Lost — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Tempest Lost.
Co-operative multiplayer game and complete code base available for free.
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Alien Breed: Impact
Single-player alternative to Tempest Lost — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Tempest Lost.
Experience the explosive science fiction arcade-shooter that resurrects a much revered franchise in an epic single player and co-op multiplayer campaign.