Single-player games like Tachyon Project
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Tachyon Project, 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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Shwip
Single-player alternative to Tachyon Project — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tachyon Project.
Dominate global leaderboards as you face an unrelenting geometric force. Shwip blends twin-stick arcade action with tight controls, jaw-dropping pixel destruction, and devastating weapons and abilities. Evade, outlast, and play with style in four game modes, both solo and local multiplayer.
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Exterminate Zombies: Get Paid
Single-player alternative to Tachyon Project — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tachyon Project.
Exterminate zombies in style with up to 4 players in this action packed co-op top-down shooter.
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Beat Hazard
Single-player alternative to Tachyon Project — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tachyon Project.
Experience your music collection like never before with this intense music driven arcade shooter. Each of your songs will have its own unique ebb and flow based on the music.
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Bleed 2
Single-player alternative to Tachyon Project — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tachyon Project.
Bleed 2 is a relentless arcade action game featuring air-dodging, bullet-reflecting, and tons of bosses. Now with randomly-generated levels and daily challenges, too!
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Crimsonland
Single-player alternative to Tachyon Project — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tachyon Project.
Thousands of aliens, giant spiders, mutant lizards, and more are on the attack - can you survive the onslaught? Crimsonland is a top-down shooter with a touch of RPG. Unlock over 30 weapons and over 50 perks from quirky to brutal. Complete the quest and show your skills in five survival modes.
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Assault Android Cactus+
Single-player alternative to Tachyon Project — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tachyon Project.
Assault Android Cactus is an intense arcade style twin stick shooter - pick from one of nine unique synthetic heroines and blast your way through overwhelming robots hordes to save the ship from its own workforce. Supports single player and local co-op game modes.
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Renegade Ops
Single-player alternative to Tachyon Project — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Tachyon Project.
Blast your way through enemy lines to defeat Inferno, a madman intent on global domination. Destruction just got awesome.
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#KILLALLZOMBIES
Single-player alternative to Tachyon Project — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tachyon Project.
#KILLALLZOMBIES is an insane twin-stick zombie shooter with Twitch streaming interactions, where you survive hordes of zombies on a dynamically changing arena and spectators may affect gameplay via special Twitch chat commands.
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Super Toy Cars
Single-player alternative to Tachyon Project — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Tachyon Project.
Super Toy Cars is a tabletop arcade combat racing game featuring fast and cool looking cars, impressive tracks made of everyday objects and a bunch of power-ups that will let you destroy your opposition.
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Lightfish
Single-player alternative to Tachyon Project — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tachyon Project.
LightFish is a highly addictive arcade game, where the user controls a small fish who lives in the abyssal deeps of the ocean... surrounded by deadly creatures.
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Spheroids
Single-player alternative to Tachyon Project — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Tachyon Project.
Spheroids is a 2D sidescroller that mixes mechanics from classic platformers such as Super Mario Bros or Umihara Kawase with 'combat' sections inspired in Pang! (or Buster Brothers), within a comical science-fiction setting inspired by films and series such as Futurama, Rick & Morty, Ghostbusters, Back to the Future or Spaceballs.
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Legendary Eleven: Epic Football
Single-player alternative to Tachyon Project — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Tachyon Project.
Legendary Eleven is an epic arcade football game inspired by the golden age of football spanning the 70's to the 90's. Choose from 36 teams full of glorious haircuts, moustaches and legends in short shorts. Lead them to glory and win the World Cup!
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Super Toy Cars 2
Single-player alternative to Tachyon Project — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Tachyon Project.
Super Toy Cars 2 is a fast paced arcade racing game where you control miniature cars that speed across amazing tracks made of supersized everyday objects. Race, fight, crash, jump, play with the objects around the track, alone or with friends. Provoke mayhem with your little toy car!
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Super Toy Cars Offroad
Single-player alternative to Tachyon Project — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Tachyon Project.
Super Toy Cars Offroad brings the series off the beaten track and into the mud, sand, snow, and more! Find your own way in this fast-paced arcade racing game where you control miniature offroad cars that speed through amazing tracks populated with supersized everyday objects.