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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Project Neon
Single-player alternative to Project Starship — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Project Starship.
Blast through enemy defenses in this intense 16-bit shoot ‘em up (or shmup), dismantling interplanetary shields to bring humanity’s last hope back from Mars and save Earth from ecological collapse.
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Rutabaga Desert Storm
Single-player alternative to Project Starship — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Project Starship.
Lead the vegetable revolution alone or with a friend in the side-scrolling shoot ‘em up Rutabaga Desert Storm! Take down wave after wave of enemies, dodge their projectiles, and grab power-ups to boost your destruction! Can you defeat the oppressive humans and free the proletariat vegetable masses?
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PuPaiPo Space Deluxe
Single-player alternative to Project Starship — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Project Starship.
Hop into your spaceship and battle waves of opponents in your journey to find the legendary space pizza! Now 100% more Deluxe than ever!
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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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Bleed 2
Single-player alternative to Project Starship — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Project Starship.
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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Jamestown
Single-player alternative to Project Starship — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Project Starship.
Jamestown: Legend Of The Lost Colony is a neo-classical top-down shooter for up to 4 players, set on 17th-century British Colonial Mars. It features all the intensity, depth, and lovingly handcrafted pixels of a classic arcade shooter, with a modern twist: deeply-integrated cooperative gameplay.
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Beat Hazard
Single-player alternative to Project Starship — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Project Starship.
Experience your music collection like never before with this intense music driven arcade shooter. Each of your songs will have its own unique ebb and flow based on the music.
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Super Bit Blaster XL
Single-player alternative to Project Starship — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Project Starship.
A SUPER throwback to the classic quarter eating arcade games of the 80's. Super Bit Blaster XL is an (even more) enhanced version of the retro styled, addictive, and fast paced arcade shoot 'em up!
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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!!
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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!
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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!