Single-player games like EXZEAL
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to EXZEAL, 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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Revolution Ace
Single-player alternative to EXZEAL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with EXZEAL.
A deep, tactical shoot'em up. With every takedown, you’ll earn cash and xp to upgrade your ship and unlock new abilities. Online and local co-op. Unique versus mode. Realistic physics and water simulation.
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DARIUSBURST Chronicle Saviours
Single-player alternative to EXZEAL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with EXZEAL.
DARIUSBURST Chronicle Saviours is the latest installment in Taito's DARIUS series of arcade-style shooting games. Blast hordes of alien sea-monsters, and blaze your own trail through branching environments.
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Assault Android Cactus+
Single-player alternative to EXZEAL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with EXZEAL.
Assault Android Cactus is an intense arcade style twin stick shooter - pick from one of nine unique synthetic heroines and blast your way through overwhelming robots hordes to save the ship from its own workforce. Supports single player and local co-op game modes.
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Super Hydorah
Single-player alternative to EXZEAL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with EXZEAL.
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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Sine Mora EX
Single-player alternative to EXZEAL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with EXZEAL.
Sine Mora EX is a side-scrolling shoot'em up that provides a unique challenge, where time is the ultimate factor. Mixing classic shooter sensibilities with contemporary presentation, Sine Mora EX is a gorgeous shoot'em up offering both a Story Mode that weaves an excessive tale and an Arcade Mode.
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I Hate Running Backwards
Single-player alternative to EXZEAL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with EXZEAL.
I Hate Running Backwards is a never-ending adrenaline packed shoot'em down roguelite that puts the emphasis on destruction and fighting never ending waves of enemies while time traveling through procedurally generated worlds!
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Jamestown
Single-player alternative to EXZEAL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with EXZEAL.
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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Crisis Wing
Single-player alternative to EXZEAL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with EXZEAL.
Crisis Wing is 90's style vertically scrolling arcade shooter. Master 7 intense vertical stages, and take down massive bosses. Play solo or with a friend in local co-op. Get ready for pure, high-octane action.
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XIIZEAL
Single-player alternative to EXZEAL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with EXZEAL.
Enjoy a fast and frantic arcade shmup from Triangle Service! Attack in all directions and rack up the multipliers - do you have XIIZEAL?
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DELTAZEAL
Single-player alternative to EXZEAL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with EXZEAL.
Triangle Service presents the essential arcade experience! Power up your ship, evade enemy fire, and blast your way to the final boss in DeltaZeal!
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Shmups Skill Test
Single-player alternative to EXZEAL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with EXZEAL.
Some say you’re only as old as you feel. Shmups Skill Test says you’re only as old as you shoot! Shmups Skill Test is a clever way to evaluate your shmup skills in the form of a "gamer age". Challenge and unlock shoot-’em-up-based minigames in a gauntlet of shmup nostalgia goodness.
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MINUS ZERO
Single-player alternative to EXZEAL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with EXZEAL.
Triangle Service’s MINUS ZERO is a shooter that focuses on a tried-and-true shoot-’em-up weapon: the lock-on laser. It’s shoot-’em-up purity: just you, your lock-on laser, and a whole bunch of enemies. As long as you continue to blast away at the waves of enemies, you’ll maintain invincibility, but if you lose track of your position...
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TRIZEAL Remix
Single-player alternative to EXZEAL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with EXZEAL.
Transform or die. TRIZEAL Remix has classic shoot-’em-up style with a refined depth just below the surface. Strategically transform your ship to switch between and upgrade three distinct weapons: a wide shot, a narrow laser, and guided missiles. Shoot with intelligence!
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Arcade Love / ゲーセンラブ。
Single-player alternative to EXZEAL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with EXZEAL.
Arcade Love. (a.k.a Ge-sen Love) contains unique Beat'-em-up and Shmup games of arcade style, which has been well-played at Arcades all over Japan.
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GyroShooter
Single-player alternative to EXZEAL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with EXZEAL.
Aim the targets approaching from all sides! The game looks like a shoot'em up but no, this new style game involves no shooting!
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DELAY SIMULATOR / ゲーミングハード技能検定
Single-player alternative to EXZEAL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with EXZEAL.
Improve your gaming skills in [Reflexes TEST] and [STICK TEST], and break your own records in the shooting games [B-POINT] and [Bullet Bullet Bullet]