Single-player games like Zenohell
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Zenohell, 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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Super XYX
Single-player alternative to Zenohell — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Zenohell.
Super XYX is a new shmup from the creator of Fire Arrow X, Megatank, ZPF and a couple of others. Co-developed and published by Team Grybanser Fox.
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Super Hydorah
Single-player alternative to Zenohell — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Zenohell.
Super Hydorah is a nonlinear horizontal shoot’ em up designed to offer a challenging experience, sublimating the richness of traditional shmup classics. Face the menace of the Meroptians aboard the Delta Lance, alone or with your friends in this game with direct action and nostalgic art.
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Syder Arcade
Single-player alternative to Zenohell — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Zenohell.
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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Earthion
Single-player alternative to Zenohell — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Zenohell.
Earthion is a side-scrolling space shooter developed natively for 16-bit systems. Guide space fighter pilot Azusa Takanashi in her fight to repel the alien invaders and save planet Earth.
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Enemy Mind
Single-player alternative to Zenohell — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Zenohell.
A retro shooter with a new power: the power to become any ship.Lost in the depths of space, you are a being of pure psychic energy with the uncanny power to take over and control anything you see in order to survive.Built for PC, Enemy Mind lets you battle your way through 70+ waves of challenging enemies.
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Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved
Single-player alternative to Zenohell — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved is a old school style shooter, but remixed for the 21st century with next generation graphics and deep, modern gameplay. Playing is simple: you are a geometric "ship" trapped in a grid world, facing off against waves of deadly wanderers, snakes, and repulsars.
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Ikaruga
Single-player alternative to Zenohell — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Zenohell.
Shoot! Dodge! and... Get Hit!? "Ikaruga" is a vertical shoot 'em up that features an unique polarity-switching gameplay. Switch the ship's polarity and "get hit and absorb" enemy bullets! Achieve High Score with the chain bonus!
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Hell is Other Demons
Single-player alternative to Zenohell — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Zenohell.
Hell is Other Demons is an action-platform shooter, with Roguelite elements. Explore a sprawling, hand-crafted world full of demons, insanely over-the-top boss fights, and a heavy synthwave soundtrack.
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Zenodyne R
Single-player alternative to Zenohell — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Zenohell.
Zenodyne R is a new 90s-style shoot-'em-up game filled with YM2612 music and real Blast Processing action, where your reflexes and patience will be tested in their entirety! Packed with 6 crazy stages filled wtih bosses, 5 unique ships, unlockables, branching paths and more!
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Fire Arrow Plus
Single-player alternative to Zenohell — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Zenohell.
Fire Arrow and Fire Arrow X are time attack style shooters with a heavy emphasis on scoring. Otherwisely, you can call them coffee break shmups.
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Jet Buster
Single-player alternative to Zenohell — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Zenohell.
Jet Buster is the new 90s anthro shmup, going back to the cuter roots of the genre.
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Zenodeath
Single-player alternative to Zenohell — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Zenohell.
Zenodeath is the final entry in the Zeno series, the final evolution, featuring a modern OST by HeavyViper and two gameplay types.