Single-player games like NOVAE: Last Light
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to NOVAE: Last Light, 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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Crush The Rebellion!
Single-player alternative to NOVAE: Last Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with NOVAE: Last Light.
The galactic empire is under siege from the rebel scum in all directions! Fight through endless waves of rebel ships using all of the weapons and resources at your disposal as you execute your sole orders: to Crush The Rebellion!
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Nova Protocol
Single-player alternative to NOVAE: Last Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with NOVAE: Last Light.
A neon bullet heaven at absurd scale. Thousands of wireframe enemies, one auto-firing interceptor, and a grid floor that buckles beneath the swarm. Draft augments, evolve your weapons, and survive a boss every five waves — until the Black Hole arrives at wave thirty, then it's the Finale wave!
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Hyper Sphere
Single-player alternative to NOVAE: Last Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with NOVAE: Last Light.
Hyper Sphere is a high-octane roguelite bullet hell where you shoot, parry and dodge through waves of evil cubes. Combine a wide variety of wacky items to create broken builds, parry projectiles back at your enemies, and defeat the final boss.
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VectaGuard
Single-player alternative to NOVAE: Last Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with NOVAE: Last Light.
Arcade-inspired shmup action where neon vector caverns explode with modern visuals, dynamic music, weapon upgrades and intense score chasing.
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Seven Suns of Orion
Single-player alternative to NOVAE: Last Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with NOVAE: Last Light.
A fast paced bullet heaven, control your Sci-fi spaceships with semi-newtonian physics. Last 7 minutes against the drone armada until their boss arrives and fight your way to freedom! Use planetary gravity and other hazards to dodge superior numbers. Collect and combine weapons for maximum firepower
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LINOVICTUS
Single-player alternative to NOVAE: Last Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with NOVAE: Last Light.
Fight through waves of enemies across shifting arenas, buy upgrades between stages, invest in new ships, research permanent upgrades between runs, and compete on the global leaderboards in this blood-pumping twin stick shooter.
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The Stars Are Not Ready
Single-player alternative to NOVAE: Last Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with NOVAE: Last Light.
A neon arcade roguelite with no gun. Momentum is the only weapon: surf the dark at full speed and ram everything to wreckage. Ten shifting zones, anomalies you can seal or exploit, mutations that evolve, guardians that shatter. The stars are not ready. Go anyway.
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Space Carrier Zero
Single-player alternative to NOVAE: Last Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with NOVAE: Last Light.
One carrier against the sector's whole navy. The guns fire themselves, you steer the bow, pick the route, and decide how long to stay before the alarm brings the fleet down on you. Collect permanent cards that increase your strength each run. Five acts with increasing battle scope.
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DISPATCHED
Single-player alternative to NOVAE: Last Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with NOVAE: Last Light.
You are Operator #15 at Pinefall Emergency Dispatch. Answer 911 calls, send the right units, and survive the shift. But the static is rising, your units aren't coming back, and some callers don't sound human. A roguelike horror dispatcher with CRT aesthetics.
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STAMPED
Single-player alternative to NOVAE: Last Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with NOVAE: Last Light.
NEXUS CORP, sub-basement 7-A. Stamp the forms. Ask nothing. Since 1952, forty-six clerks have vanished at this desk - you are the forty-seventh. Cross-check every claim on your terminal, rule APPROVED or REJECTED, and try not to wonder what the paperwork is really sealing.