Single-player games like Project Starship
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Project Starship, 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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Pixel Galaxy
Single-player alternative to Project Starship — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Project Starship.
A non-shooting shoot 'em up where you must grow, make friends, and survive together.
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Pixel Descent
Single-player alternative to Project Starship — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Project Starship.
Pixel Descent is an action rogue-lite in which you navigate a series of complex dungeons packed to the brim with monsters that want you dead. Sign the contract and descend into the deepest depths of the abyss knowing full well that you will definitely die there, it's just a matter of when.
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Super Star Path
Single-player alternative to Project Starship — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Project Starship.
Classic color match puzzle meets space shoot'em up action! Hop into your spaceship, open a path through huge waves of aliens and other hazards, and face intense boss battles!
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Super Hydorah
Single-player alternative to Project Starship — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Project Starship.
Super Hydorah is a nonlinear horizontal shoot’ em up designed to offer a challenging experience, sublimating the richness of traditional shmup classics. Face the menace of the Meroptians aboard the Delta Lance, alone or with your friends in this game with direct action and nostalgic art.
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Cuphead
Single-player alternative to Project Starship — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Project Starship.
Cuphead is a classic run and gun action game heavily focused on boss battles. Inspired by cartoons of the 1930s, the visuals and audio are painstakingly created with the same techniques of the era, i.e. traditional hand drawn cel animation, watercolor backgrounds, and original jazz recordings.
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Hyper Light Drifter
Single-player alternative to Project Starship — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Project Starship.
Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.
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Crimzon Clover WORLD IGNITION
Single-player alternative to Project Starship — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Project Starship.
Prepare yourself for an insatiable rain of bullets, bombs, and beams in Crimzon Clover. From Japanese indie developer Yotsubane, this retro top-down shooter is a wild ride you won't want to miss out on.
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DRAINUS
Single-player alternative to Project Starship — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Project Starship.
This is a side-scrolling shooting game in which you take control of the "Drainus", the Kharlal Empire's most cutting-edge fighter with the ability to absorb energy bullets, and take down the enemy ships zipping through space.
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Raiden III x MIKADO MANIAX
Single-player alternative to Project Starship — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Project Starship.
Soar sky-high in Raiden III x MIKADO MANIAX, an electrifying entry in the classic arcade shoot-‘em-up series! Customize your music, wallpapers, game mode, and more before launching into high-octane aerial action!
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Reset 1-1
Single-player alternative to Project Starship — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Project Starship.
The world has ended, Demons have risen to conquer the uninhabited and flourishing nature outside. It's your turn, with your unknown identity, to find your path for a new beginning. Let's not beat about the bush here. Reset 1-1 is everything you loved about the late 80's/early 90's. It's a blast from the past, with a fresh spin.
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Red Death
Single-player alternative to Project Starship — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Project Starship.
Red Death is a vertical shooter, Prologue of the series Project Starship!
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Null Drifter
Single-player alternative to Project Starship — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Project Starship.
Null Drifter is a 1BIT LO-FI shooter, a journey into the void inside a computer simulation! Lose yourself in this frenetic yet chill experience!
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Project Starship X
Single-player alternative to Project Starship — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Project Starship.
The Rogue-Lite shooter where you CRASH-KILL comical abominations! Pilot your spaceship as Swagthulhu in this original and wacky "Lovecraftian Parody"!
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Pity Pit
Single-player alternative to Project Starship — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Project Starship.
Dig Dug meets Downwell! Dig your doom, save Gwendoline from the Devil Johnson! 2D platforming, digging, ores, crafting, bombs!!
- 15
Pixel Survivor - Pixel Up!
Single-player alternative to Project Starship — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Project Starship.
A pixel SURVIVOR ROGUE-LITE that will give you a hypnotic addiction! You do all the usual "Survivor" stuff, but this time you'll have to hire a therapist in order to stop playing!
- 16
Z-Warp
Single-player alternative to Project Starship — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Project Starship.
Z-Warp is an intense vertical shoot’em up presented in retro pixel art style, featuring frenetic arcade-inspired action where blasters, bombs and KILLER specials are your only allies.
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Feeble Light
Single-player alternative to Project Starship — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Project Starship.
Blast off as a little star trying to rid the cosmos of angry celestial beings in Feeble Light, a 3-tone pixel art shoot’em up where minimalistic presentation makes way for precision controls and fluid animation!