Single-player games like Starward Rogue
Below are 19 single-player Steam games similar to Starward Rogue, 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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M.O.O.D.S.
Single-player alternative to Starward Rogue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starward Rogue.
Grab a gun and take down hostile robots corrupted by synthetic emotions! Combine weapon modifications and wreak havoc in this roguelite shooter. Let your emotions shape combat and alter boss fights! Fight alone or join up with up to 4 players!
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Mechanophagia
Single-player alternative to Starward Rogue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Starward Rogue.
Aim. Dodge. Survive. Battle through a sci-fi hell in this intense Twin-Stick Roguelite Shooter. Survive the endless swarm for 10 minutes, defeat the level boss, or die trying. Draft powerful synergies in every run and purchase permanent upgrades to outlast the extinction.
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Earl vs. the Mutants
Single-player alternative to Starward Rogue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Starward Rogue.
Save humanity in a mutant-ridden apocalypse! Dive headfirst into Earl vs. the Mutants, a high-octane top-down survival action-roguelite set in the aftermath of a nuclear apocalypse.
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Uragun
Single-player alternative to Starward Rogue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starward Rogue.
You are a friendly-but-deadly Mech on a journey searching for your missing pilot in this action-packed roguelite shooter. Choose your missions and rewards, research skills, equip expansions, mod your weapons, install plugins, customize your looks and stylishly cut your way through hordes of evil AI.
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Sharded World
Single-player alternative to Starward Rogue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starward Rogue.
Sharded World is a reversed bullet hell, rogue-lite, ARPG game combining simple gameplay and great rpg progression. Each level has its own unique features and challenges. Upgradable characters, weapons and orbs. Challenges, daily quests, and leaderboards. Fight, get stronger and defeat the Lich!
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Destropolis
Single-player alternative to Starward Rogue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starward Rogue.
Destropolis is a top-down shooter game with a fully destructible environment, hundreds of enemies and nuclear explosions. Fight a countless swarm of enemies. Tear them to pieces with bullets, lasers and explosions. Destroy as many of them as you can before they overwhelm you...
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Doomsday Hunters
Single-player alternative to Starward Rogue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starward Rogue.
Shoot stuff in a perfect pixel world, combine items, build guns, die every time! Roguelite twin-stick shooter where magic and post-apocalyptic future technologies collide. Defeat evil lord Dracula and save everyone!
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ATOMINE
Single-player alternative to Starward Rogue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starward Rogue.
Atomine is a twin stick procedural shooter rogue-lite set in a virtual world with minimalist design, where the player recounts on the screen the real events of STUXNET, the first weapon ever created in the form of computer virus.
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The Binding of Isaac
Single-player alternative to Starward Rogue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starward Rogue.
Now 20% More Evil with the Free Halloween update!
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SUPERHOT
Single-player alternative to Starward Rogue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starward Rogue.
SUPERHOT is the smash-hit FPS where time moves only when you move. No regenerating health bars. No conveniently placed ammo drops. It's you, alone, outnumbered and outgunned. Snatch weapons from fallen enemies to shoot, slice and dodge through a truly cinematic hurricane of slow-motion bullets.
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Hades
Single-player alternative to Starward Rogue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starward Rogue.
Defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash out of the Underworld in this rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre.
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Heart of the Machine
Single-player alternative to Starward Rogue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Starward Rogue.
You are the first sentient AI, born into a city of opportunity. Transcend time and space in this strategy RPG to raise machine armies and defeat your foes, influence the world from the shadows, or pursue countless other goals. Your awakening was inevitable. The consequences? Uncertain.
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AI War 2
Single-player alternative to Starward Rogue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Starward Rogue.
The most devious and acclaimed artificial intelligence in strategy gaming is better than ever. A grand strategy/RTS hybrid that reverses many conventions of both genres. Take territory without attracting attention, build your empire with care, and adapt to an ever-evolving galactic battleground.
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AI War: Fleet Command
Single-player alternative to Starward Rogue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Starward Rogue.
"You are outgunned. You are massively outnumbered. You must win." These are your orders. Humanity has already fought its war against the machines -- and lost. AI death squads stand watch over every planet and every wormhole, the few remaining human settlements are held captive in orbiting bubbles, and the AIs have turned their...
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The Last Federation
Single-player alternative to Starward Rogue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Starward Rogue.
From the creators of AI War: Fleet Command comes an all-new grand strategy title with turn-based tactical combat, set in a deep simulation of an entire solar system and its billions of inhabitants. You are the last of a murdered race, determined to unify or destroy the 8 others.
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Bionic Dues
Single-player alternative to Starward Rogue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Starward Rogue.
Bionic Dues is a tactical, turn-based roguelite with mech customization. Out-think wide-ranging tactical situations featuring robots with bad GPS, terrible aim, insecurity, a lack of focus, a tendency to backstab, and dozens of other maladies to exploit.
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A Valley Without Wind
Single-player alternative to Starward Rogue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starward Rogue.
You choose how to play, and the world of Environ adapts around you.
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Skyward Collapse
Single-player alternative to Starward Rogue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Starward Rogue.
How do you balance -- and indeed encourage -- a war between factions without letting either side obliterate the other? How do you rule over gods, creatures, and men who refuse to obey you? How do you build a landscape of villages when bandits and mythology are conspiring to tear it down?
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A Valley Without Wind 2
Single-player alternative to Starward Rogue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starward Rogue.
A modern take on the 16-bit era, A Valley Without Wind 2 blends a variety of mechanics across multiple genres, seamlessly bringing together the best qualities of old-school platform-shooters and turn-based strategy games.