Single-player games like Black Hole Surfers
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Black Hole Surfers, 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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Mine or Burn
Single-player alternative to Black Hole Surfers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Black Hole Surfers.
Start with a basic mining ship and snowball into an asteroid-crushing powerhouse in this incremental bullet hell roguelite. Mine asteroids, battle rival miners, stack upgrades, create powerful builds, and survive escalating threats across dangerous star systems.
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HordeFall
Single-player alternative to Black Hole Surfers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Black Hole Surfers.
A bulletheaven x incremental game that runs as a desktop companion in the corner of your screen! While you work, your hero automatically fights thousands of enemies. Unlock upgrades and manage your economy, attributes, and spells. Your screen is your battlefield - minimal space, maximum progress!
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Space Mine Raider
Single-player alternative to Black Hole Surfers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Black Hole Surfers.
Space Mine Raider is a mining and bullet hell incremental game with a focus on strong power progression and combat. Warp in, mine resources, fight enemies and bosses, and extract with your spoils to upgrade your ship.
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Magical Girl: incremental gaiden
Single-player alternative to Black Hole Surfers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Black Hole Surfers.
Short Bullet Hell about Magical Girl with a skill tree! Fight against Shadows, gather resources, upgrade skill tree and defeat all the Witches to save humanity!
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Catnip Cosmos
Single-player alternative to Black Hole Surfers — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Shoot. Upgrade. Incrementally progress further. Pilot cat-operated spaceships on timed Zoomies runs in this space shooter. Combine pilots for powerful synergies, defeat boss challenges to unlock new weapons and improve exponentially.
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Porkanoid
Single-player alternative to Black Hole Surfers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Black Hole Surfers.
An incremental, circular, pig-themed brick breaker mission: rescue your friend trapped across bizarre cosmic worlds by smashing rotating rings of bricks with your pig-headed ball. Keep moving to survive, unlock devastating power-ups, master innovative mechanics, and become stronger with every run.
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Elecade
Single-player alternative to Black Hole Surfers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Black Hole Surfers.
Strike down rampaging machines with chain lightning. Elecade is a 1-bit action game with incremental upgrades, where you power up and climb to the top of a space facility.
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Tether Space Program
Single-player alternative to Black Hole Surfers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Black Hole Surfers.
You signed. Now you owe. Fly out on the company tether, snatch orbs before the shift clock dies, and watch the payslip bill you for the privilege. Upgrade, requisition, chain, repeat until the debt is paid. A first-person arcade retrieval job with incremental bones.