Single-player games like Long Rescue
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Long Rescue, 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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Deadship Protocol
Single-player alternative to Long Rescue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Long Rescue.
Bullet heaven auto-shooter with ONLINE AND COUCH CO-OP for 1-4 players. Fight hordes of energy-feeding aliens, recover eight Protocol Cores, and choose powerful upgrades. Leave the reactor undefended, then fight your way back before the ship runs out of power.
- 2

You Are Circle
Single-player alternative to Long Rescue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Long Rescue.
You are a circle in a sharp world. Fight jagged enemies in a neon twin-stick bullet-hell roguelite, build devastating ability combos, and grow from fragile to unstoppable through shifting neon labyrinths.
- 3

Gunblade Ranger
Single-player alternative to Long Rescue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Long Rescue.
An action shooting Roguelite focused on relentless attacks and brutal executions. Fight through the wasteland, execute enemies to restore ammo, collect weapons and mutations, and create your own killing build. Local 2 player co-op supported.
- 4

Hyper Sentinel Fusion
Single-player alternative to Long Rescue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Long Rescue.
Pilot an agile starfighter to tear down alien megastructures under fire, then pull off a high-stakes heist from within before everything explodes. When you die time rewinds, sending you back to Moonbase Alpha - your hub for reinvention. Spend your bounty on epic upgrades, ready for the next run.
- 5

Toypunk
Single-player alternative to Long Rescue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Long Rescue.
A roguelite third-person puppet-shooter where you wield an entire toybox of absurd weaponry. Fight hordes of cotton-stuffed baddies across fantastical biomes in single-player or co-op. Experience crazy synergies and unlock more toys between runs!
- 6

The Whisker Watch
Single-player alternative to Long Rescue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Long Rescue.
Paws up, Watchers! Team up as two house cats in a chaotic 2-player co-op action roguelite. Protect your Human after dark, upgrade your mansion by day, smash Void-born monsters, upgrade weapons and combat gadgets, grab the loot, and have fun making mischief.
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Neon Armada - Solar Storm
Single-player alternative to Long Rescue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Long Rescue.
A top-down arena roguelite you can learn in one wave and spend a hundred hours mastering. Waves close in from every edge; the shop between them decides what you become. 32 ships, 28 weapons, 115 mods to combine — then endless mode, where the caps come off.
- 8

Scrapstorm
Single-player alternative to Long Rescue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Long Rescue.
A 1-4 player bullet-heaven roguelite where the whole city is hunting you. Draft cards every level until one pistol turns into a screen-clearing mess, and watch out for the traffic, the third rail and whatever is running each district.