Single-player games like Asteroid Patrol
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Asteroid Patrol, 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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Trapped In Here With Me
Single-player alternative to Asteroid Patrol — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Asteroid Patrol.
Heart-pounding arcade shooter.
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Mud River
Single-player alternative to Asteroid Patrol — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Asteroid Patrol.
Mud River is a horizontal 2D Shoot‘em Up game. The Rio Doce (Sweet River) was a paradise for mankind and animals, but now it has become a territory destroyed by the unscrupulous activities of Dr. Wellin. This is Pacal's first destination, ascending the Rio Doce preventing its complete destruction.
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Ricky Recharge
Single-player alternative to Asteroid Patrol — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Asteroid Patrol.
Ricky wakes up all alone in a robot apocalypse. Little did they know that this was exactly what he had been waiting for! Charge, zap, blast, and recharge your way through an ever growing army of bots in this high score focused arcade shooter!
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GUNPIG: Firepower For Hire
Single-player alternative to Asteroid Patrol — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Asteroid Patrol.
Sci-fi top-down twin-stick shooter with 9 weapons, 3 alts and secret hidden collectibles!
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Chronos Bound: How We Became Heroes
Single-player alternative to Asteroid Patrol — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Asteroid Patrol.
Pilot a lone ship through a collapsing orbital station in a modern 2.5D shoot ’em up. Block bullets with a 360° directional shield, destroy grotesque wreck-born enemies, defeat colossal bosses, and build new upgrade paths with every run — a love letter to classic shoot ’em ups.
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A Blast From The Past
Single-player alternative to Asteroid Patrol — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Asteroid Patrol.
A Blast from the Past is a stunning, classic arcade shooter. Includes gameplay modes for the casual gamer through to "Tournament Mode" for Hi-Score hunters! With 4K/360Hz+ support, experience smooth as silk gameplay in this dazzling arcade blaster with something for every arcade-going fan!
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Touch Force
Single-player alternative to Asteroid Patrol — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Asteroid Patrol.
Most unique top down shooter. Bring hell to insectoid robot invasion.
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Energy Fighters
Single-player alternative to Asteroid Patrol — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Asteroid Patrol.
A modern retro inspired side scrolling shooter with a deep upgrade system and the ability to absorb enemy fire and also deflect it back to your enemies. A fast paced shooter that can be played solo or local co-op with 12 difficulty modes and lots of boss battles.
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A Path to the Princess
Single-player alternative to Asteroid Patrol — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Asteroid Patrol.
That's a great game for you to feel smart by solving super simple puzzles usually, also sometimes scratch your head to solve harder levels and mumble about how better you are than this. Enjoy our little grid based puzzle game!
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Doodle Taxi
Single-player alternative to Asteroid Patrol — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Asteroid Patrol.
Navigate an open world city in a car, while your vision is taken away. Deliver customers fast & carefully to restore your vision.
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Digitalink
Single-player alternative to Asteroid Patrol — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A workplace thriller inspired by Severance (Apple TV) where your job is finding matching values in a pile of matrices to brain map a creature's mind while the creature keeps attacking employees' minds to scare them and stop the process, making it harder to understand what is real and what is not.
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Thrust Issues
Single-player alternative to Asteroid Patrol — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Asteroid Patrol.
A co-op adventure game about leaving a dying colonial planet by using the cartridges in a smart way on your P.S.M (Programmable Sequence Machine) before it's too late.