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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Unknown Hero
Single-player alternative to Shooting Stars! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shooting Stars!.
Brace yourself for an intense bullet hell experience! Fight your way through challenging levels, defeat bosses, upgrade your weapon and get the highest score!
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The Battle of Aurinoxia
Single-player alternative to Shooting Stars! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shooting Stars!.
A retro space shoot 'em up with pixel art graphics, unique enemies, tough angry bosses, and a killer soundtrack. You are among the first pilots to arrive in the system to mount the counteroffensive against the aggressors. Get out there and show these aliens the price for messing with The Alliance!
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Space Drift Squad
Single-player alternative to Shooting Stars! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shooting Stars!.
Call your friends and lead your squad through the outer space and protect your planet from asteroids and alien ships on this local shoot'em up. Shoot, evolve e explode these space enemies.
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WDF
Single-player alternative to Shooting Stars! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shooting Stars!.
‘WDF’, is a horizontal shmup game with a Boss-rush style in that the difficulty will increase slightly after the player clears all stages and continues to the next loop. Each loop will be different from the other. Also, it has a main campaign mode with a longer stage and weapon upgrades.
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Super Rebellion
Single-player alternative to Shooting Stars! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shooting Stars!.
The humanity succumbed against the power of a aliens intergalactic empire, but managed to organize and establish a resistance army. Join the rebellious seekers of peace and help them defeat the evil that haunts the Earth.
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Space Dragons
Single-player alternative to Shooting Stars! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shooting Stars!.
Choose your spaceship and defeat the alien threat that comes from the Moon. Blast your way crushing, ripping apart and exploding hostile aliens that are taking control of powerful weapons and military technology from Earth. Find the entity that controls the threat and make it explode into blood.
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Space War: Infinity
Single-player alternative to Shooting Stars! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shooting Stars!.
Vertical semi-procedural shmup with upgrades, real-time enemy waves, and infinite replayability. Level up your ship, unlock 20+ weapons, defeat 5 bosses, and survive endless bullet-hell combat.
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Overdriven Reloaded
Single-player alternative to Shooting Stars! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shooting Stars!.
Shoot' Em Up, Vertical Fast & Fun !The Overdriven Ship is back :More better, more intense, and more beautiful !
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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.