Single-player games like Karma Cannon
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Karma Cannon, 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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Syder Arcade
Single-player alternative to Karma Cannon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Karma Cannon.
Killing zombies never gets old, but sometimes you just need a break. Get back to some serious old-school gaming with Syder Arcade! Syder Arcade is a love letter to Amiga games of the ‘90s, no coins, no upgrade grinding, just your tenacity and a motherload of alien invaders.
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Earthion
Single-player alternative to Karma Cannon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Karma Cannon.
Earthion is a side-scrolling space shooter developed natively for 16-bit systems. Guide space fighter pilot Azusa Takanashi in her fight to repel the alien invaders and save planet Earth.
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Space War: Infinity
Single-player alternative to Karma Cannon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Karma Cannon.
Vertical semi-procedural shmup with upgrades, real-time enemy waves, and infinite replayability. Level up your ship, unlock 20+ weapons, defeat 5 bosses, and survive endless bullet-hell combat.
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Space Elite Force
Single-player alternative to Karma Cannon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Karma Cannon.
Gear up for an intergalactic thrill ride! Space Elite Force is a frenzied space-shooter packed with weapon customization and epic boss battles. Take command of your ship and fight for the survival of humanity!
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Beat Hazard
Single-player alternative to Karma Cannon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Karma Cannon.
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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Jets'n'Guns Gold
Single-player alternative to Karma Cannon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Karma Cannon.
Jets'n'Guns is a heavy piece of ground shaking rock blasting action with graphics and special effects that will blow you eyes out! Enjoy yourself in almost-insane action adventure of saving the universe from the deadly threat of more than 270 unique monsters in the campaign of 43 levels.
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Starr Mazer: DSP
Single-player alternative to Karma Cannon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Karma Cannon.
The UNFP's been kicked in the teeth by a G'ell invasion force and their last and only hope is a planetary outpost and its fleet of experimental DSP MkI Forward Assault Fighters and anyone marshal enough to strap into one and forcefully accept some apologies.
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REMOTE LIFE
Single-player alternative to Karma Cannon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Karma Cannon.
Remote Life is a 2D Side scrolling space shooter (shmup) for PC. Experience a fast paced action game with insane scary graphics, and hyper jump into a brutal-frenetic-techno-alien world. Free the world from this dreadful nightmare before its nauseating breath of horror destroys mankind.