Single-player games like Highway to the Moon
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Highway to the Moon, 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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Nex Machina
Single-player alternative to Highway to the Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Highway to the Moon.
Nex Machina is an intense arcade style twin-stick shooter from Housemarque. Taking hints from both Robotron and Smash TV, Nex Machina focuses on pure action, voxel destruction and competition in the distant, cablepunk themed future.
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Beat Hazard
Single-player alternative to Highway to the Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Highway to the Moon.
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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Bleed 2
Single-player alternative to Highway to the Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Highway to the Moon.
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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Crimsonland
Single-player alternative to Highway to the Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Highway to the Moon.
Thousands of aliens, giant spiders, mutant lizards, and more are on the attack - can you survive the onslaught? Crimsonland is a top-down shooter with a touch of RPG. Unlock over 30 weapons and over 50 perks from quirky to brutal. Complete the quest and show your skills in five survival modes.
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The Hong Kong Massacre
Single-player alternative to Highway to the Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Highway to the Moon.
Blast your way through the streets of Hong Kong in a fast-paced, top-down shooter. Inspired by classic action movies, The Hong Kong Massacre places you at the center of a hard-boiled revenge story, filled with brutal, cinematic shootouts and vivid underworld locations.
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AIRHEART - Tales of broken Wings
Single-player alternative to Highway to the Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Highway to the Moon.
Airheart is a dieselpunk airplane action rogue like game, where every colorful level is built on top of the previous one, all the way up to the stratosphere. Welcome to Granaria, a flying city in the clouds. Meet Amelia - a young pilot and fisherwoman wishing to reach the abundant world's edge.
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RIVE
Single-player alternative to Highway to the Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Highway to the Moon.
This 360-degree shooter/platformer hybrid lets you choreograph a ‘dance of destruction’ in insanely spectacular battles and set-pieces. RIVE feels like the explosive games of yore, pumping megapixels in true 21st century style.
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Blacksea Odyssey
Single-player alternative to Highway to the Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Highway to the Moon.
Enter the Blacksea Odyssey, a violent top-down rogue-lite space shoot ‘em up RPG brimming with colossal creatures and runic technologies. Explore dangerous, interstellar spacescapes as you hunt enormous space-behemoths with a harpoon and rune-infused spears.
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Legends of Mathmatica²: Under the Shadow of Certainty
Single-player alternative to Highway to the Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Legends of Mathmatica²: Under the Shadow of Certainty is a humorous retro style JRPG, featuring a 16-bit aesthetic, an active time battle system, old school puzzle dungeons, and a comedic storyline that is filled with word play and genre savvy silliness.