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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Enter the Gungeon
Single-player alternative to Starward Rogue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starward Rogue.
Enter the Gungeon is a bullet hell dungeon crawler following a band of misfits seeking to shoot, loot, dodge roll and table-flip their way to personal absolution by reaching the legendary Gungeon’s ultimate treasure: the gun that can kill the past.
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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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CRYPTARK
Single-player alternative to Starward Rogue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starward Rogue.
Cryptark is a 2D sci-fi shooter where you take on the role of a heavily armed privateer seeking to earn government contracts by boarding deadly alien space-hulks. It's up to you to strategize a plan of attack, pick an equipment loadout, and destroy the central core to be victorious.
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Steredenn: Binary Stars
Single-player alternative to Starward Rogue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starward Rogue.
Steredenn is a frenetic and chaotic space shooter, carved in big beautiful pixels, with insane boss battles. Embark in your ship and engage the fight against dreadful space pirates in a never-ending combat for your survival.
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Ziggurat
Single-player alternative to Starward Rogue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starward Rogue.
Dungeon-Crawling First Person Shooting at its finest! Fast-paced combat! Dozens of perks, spells and enemies! Level ups! Random Dungeons! Traps! Badass bosses! Carrots!
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Swarm Grinder
Single-player alternative to Starward Rogue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starward Rogue.
An action roguelite game with alien swarms and mechs. Battle enemies to make your way through a mass of spreading and evolving cells hosting dormant enemies. Collect a variety of game-changing skills and upgrades to create unique builds.
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Star of Providence
Single-player alternative to Starward Rogue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starward Rogue.
Star of Providence is a top down action shooter with procedurally generated elements. Explore a large, abandoned facility in search of incredible power, fighting dangerous foes and gaining new weapons and upgrades as you progress.
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GALAK-Z
Single-player alternative to Starward Rogue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starward Rogue.
Brand New features!! The Void DLC offers endless gameplay, Online Leaderboards, and a Daily Challenge that allows players to compete worldwide for the top score. Anime inspired 2D space combat simulation at its best! GALAK-Z is a modern, A.I.
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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.