Single-player games like Ellipsis
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Ellipsis, 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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Super Galaxy Squadron EX Turbo
Single-player alternative to Ellipsis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ellipsis.
Super Galaxy Squadron is a fast-paced vertical shooter designed for human beings as well as SHMUP veterans. Featuring multiple game modes, a challenging but merciful difficulty curve, forgiving health system, and SEVENTEEN playable ships.
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Beat Hazard
Single-player alternative to Ellipsis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ellipsis.
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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Ikaruga
Single-player alternative to Ellipsis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ellipsis.
Shoot! Dodge! and... Get Hit!? "Ikaruga" is a vertical shoot 'em up that features an unique polarity-switching gameplay. Switch the ship's polarity and "get hit and absorb" enemy bullets! Achieve High Score with the chain bonus!
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LUFTRAUSERS
Single-player alternative to Ellipsis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ellipsis.
The skies are aflame and the seas will overflow with wreckage in Vlambeer’s stylish arcade shooter LUFTRAUSERS! Take to the skies in customized fighter planes to battle battleships, submarines, and rival aces for glory, honor, and high scores.
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Jamestown
Single-player alternative to Ellipsis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ellipsis.
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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Syder Arcade
Single-player alternative to Ellipsis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ellipsis.
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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Pixel Descent
Single-player alternative to Ellipsis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ellipsis.
Pixel Descent is an action rogue-lite in which you navigate a series of complex dungeons packed to the brim with monsters that want you dead. Sign the contract and descend into the deepest depths of the abyss knowing full well that you will definitely die there, it's just a matter of when.
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Waves
Single-player alternative to Ellipsis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ellipsis.
Waves is an Arcade Twin-Stick Shooter that's all about High Scores. Build your combo and drop bombs in pursuit of Leaderboard dominance over seven game-modes!
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Super Meat Boy
Single-player alternative to Ellipsis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Ellipsis.
The infamous, tough-as-nails platformer comes to Steam with a playable Head Crab character (Steam-exclusive)!
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SUPERHOT
Single-player alternative to Ellipsis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ellipsis.
SUPERHOT is the smash-hit FPS where time moves only when you move. No regenerating health bars. No conveniently placed ammo drops. It's you, alone, outnumbered and outgunned. Snatch weapons from fallen enemies to shoot, slice and dodge through a truly cinematic hurricane of slow-motion bullets.
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Sweet Surrender VR
Single-player alternative to Ellipsis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ellipsis.
Sweet Surrender is a fast-paced roguelike VR shooter. Fight your way up a dystopian megatower, filled to the brim with tyrant machines hell-bent on destroying the last of humanity. Build your arsenal of weapons, upgrades, and explosives to take down the machine overlords.
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Late For Work
Single-player alternative to Ellipsis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ellipsis.
Play as a giant gorilla in VR and face off against your puny human friends in the ultimate couch party game.
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GrowRilla VR
Single-player alternative to Ellipsis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ellipsis.
You're the world's hungriest ape and must eat to grow bigger and stronger. Sneak, climb, throw, punch and shoot to become a giant monster and defeat your enemies.
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DRIFTERS: Blackout Crew
Single-player alternative to Ellipsis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ellipsis.
Raid ancient alien temples in a PvE co-op extraction shooter built for tactile VR gunplay. Steal energy for your dying mothership, scavenge rare resources, survive the temple’s defense systems, and decide how deep your crew can push before extraction turns desperate.