Single-player games like Shooting Stars!
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Shooting Stars!, 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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SAMOLIOTIK
Single-player alternative to Shooting Stars! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shooting Stars!.
SAMOLIOTIK is a stylish shoot-em-up with different enemies, bosses, colour palettes, power-ups, set in different eras. In this game you will fight Adolf Gutler,The Illuminati, and other creatures.
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Pixel Galaxy
Single-player alternative to Shooting Stars! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shooting Stars!.
A non-shooting shoot 'em up where you must grow, make friends, and survive together.
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Super Time Force Ultra
Single-player alternative to Shooting Stars! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shooting Stars!.
Super Time Force Ultra is an insane platformer filled with robots and dinosaurs and fun and time travel... sometimes all at the same time!
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State of Anarchy: Master of Mayhem
Single-player alternative to Shooting Stars! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shooting Stars!.
Prepare for bullet hell action and crazy driving! Your town is on fire, anarchy reigns the streets, aliens rampage in the sky! Grab your gun and join the fun!
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Bleed 2
Single-player alternative to Shooting Stars! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shooting Stars!.
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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The Bug Butcher
Single-player alternative to Shooting Stars! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shooting Stars!.
A fast paced action shooter inspired by the arcade classic Super Pang! Use a wide selection of weapons and powerups to tear through increasingly challenging levels.
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Super Galaxy Squadron EX Turbo
Single-player alternative to Shooting Stars! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shooting Stars!.
Super Galaxy Squadron is a fast-paced vertical shooter designed for human beings as well as SHMUP veterans. Featuring multiple game modes, a challenging but merciful difficulty curve, forgiving health system, and SEVENTEEN playable ships.
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REMOTE LIFE
Single-player alternative to Shooting Stars! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shooting Stars!.
Remote Life is a 2D Side scrolling space shooter (shmup) for PC. Experience a fast paced action game with insane scary graphics, and hyper jump into a brutal-frenetic-techno-alien world. Free the world from this dreadful nightmare before its nauseating breath of horror destroys mankind.
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Nuclear Throne
Single-player alternative to Shooting Stars! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shooting Stars!.
Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?
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Enter the Gungeon
Single-player alternative to Shooting Stars! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shooting Stars!.
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.