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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Robits: Quantum Descent
Single-player alternative to Tempest Lost — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Tempest Lost.
Momentum is your greatest advantage. It's also your biggest mistake. A momentum-driven roguelite twin-stick shooter set in a procedurally generated, living quantum arena that never lets you settle in. Stack weapons and mods into a drone built to survive it.
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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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Steel Hail
Single-player alternative to Tempest Lost — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Tempest Lost.
Become humanity's last hope. Gear up, upgrade, and unleash hell in a relentless third-person sci-fi shooter against a ruthless robotic army. The future is yours to forge in fire and steel.
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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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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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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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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.