Single-player games like Just Shapes & Beats
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Just Shapes & Beats, 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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Afterbeat (Project Arrhythmia)
Single-player alternative to Just Shapes & Beats — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Just Shapes & Beats.
A musical bullet-hell where all things beautiful are deadly. Dodge well little nanobot, you don't have much time.
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Rhythm Doctor
Single-player alternative to Just Shapes & Beats — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Just Shapes & Beats.
Save patients with your rhythm mastery! Rhythm Doctor is a rhythm game where you heal patients by defibrillating in time to their heartbeats. Learn each patient's unique heartbeat and defeat boss viruses trying to sabotage your rhythm, all set to heart-pumping, soul-soothing music.
- 3
Crypt of the NecroDancer
Single-player alternative to Just Shapes & Beats — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Just Shapes & Beats.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
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Cuphead
Single-player alternative to Just Shapes & Beats — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Just Shapes & Beats.
Cuphead is a classic run and gun action game heavily focused on boss battles. Inspired by cartoons of the 1930s, the visuals and audio are painstakingly created with the same techniques of the era, i.e. traditional hand drawn cel animation, watercolor backgrounds, and original jazz recordings.
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The Metronomicon: Slay The Dance Floor
Single-player alternative to Just Shapes & Beats — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Just Shapes & Beats.
A Rhythm Role-Playing Game! Fight party crashing monsters with the power of music! Level your party and upgrade your gear while dancing to the beat of some groovin' tunes. Grab a friend and combine forces in all game modes in The Metronomicon: Slay the Dance Floor!
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Beat Hazard 2
Single-player alternative to Just Shapes & Beats — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Just Shapes & Beats.
Experience your music collection as 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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Geometry Dash
Single-player alternative to Just Shapes & Beats — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Just Shapes & Beats.
Jump and fly your way through danger in this rhythm-based action platformer!
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Soundodger+
Single-player alternative to Just Shapes & Beats — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Just Shapes & Beats.
Dodge the music and dance through a mesmerizing ballet of choreographed bullets, each synced to music from over a dozen international artists. Push your creativity and skills with the fully-featured Level Editor and never run out of things to dodge.
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Undertale
Single-player alternative to Just Shapes & Beats — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Just Shapes & Beats.
UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.
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AudioSurf
Single-player alternative to Just Shapes & Beats — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Just Shapes & Beats.
Ride your music. Audiosurf is a music-adapting puzzle racer where you use your own music to create your own experience. The shape, the speed, and the mood of each ride is determined by the song you choose.
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BIT.TRIP RUNNER
Single-player alternative to Just Shapes & Beats — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Just Shapes & Beats.
Experience the rhythmic thrill of BIT.TRIP RUNNER! With its retro charm, simple controls, and award-winning visuals, this classic sets the standard for rhythm gaming. Don't miss the game that started it all in the acclaimed runner series.
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RAIN Project - a touhou fangame
Single-player alternative to Just Shapes & Beats — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Just Shapes & Beats.
RAIN Project is a Touhou fangame re-imagined as a platforming boss-bash! After a ritual gone wrong, the newbie shrine maiden Sanae awakes in a world of fantasy. With only the storms to guide her, Sanae sets off to scale a towering mountain in search of answers.
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Infernax
Single-player alternative to Just Shapes & Beats — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Just Shapes & Beats.
Infernax is the adventures of a great knight who returns to his homeland only to find it plagued with unholy magic. Uncover the mysteries of the curse and face the consequences of your actions.
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Berzerk Flashback
Single-player alternative to Just Shapes & Beats — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Just Shapes & Beats.
Three dudes in their twenties, they shared a goal, they shared a dream, ♫ To make Flash gaaames ♫ RIP Flash 1996-2020
- 15
Zombidle : REMONSTERED
Single-player alternative to Just Shapes & Beats — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Just Shapes & Beats.
Like the song says, good guys finish last, and in this case, they also finish homeless and on fire. Welcome to Zombidle, Berzerk Studio's newest idle game, or tap game; whatever, you do you, man.