Single-player games like Red Death
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Red Death, 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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Project Starship
Single-player alternative to Red Death — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Red Death.
Project Starship is an arcade bullet-hell with random mechanics. No match will ever be the same. Who will you be? Garret or Gwen? Will you save the world from the mighty cthulhu?
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State of Anarchy: Master of Mayhem
Single-player alternative to Red Death — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Red Death.
Prepare for bullet hell action and crazy driving! Your town is on fire, anarchy reigns the streets, aliens rampage in the sky! Grab your gun and join the fun!
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Deathsmiles
Single-player alternative to Red Death — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Red Death.
Deathsmiles is CAVE's bullet-hell shoot-'em-up where you take the role of one of five Angels to defend the magical land of Gilverado from an invasion by Hell itself! Eradicate this devilish assault!
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Crimzon Clover WORLD IGNITION
Single-player alternative to Red Death — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Red Death.
Prepare yourself for an insatiable rain of bullets, bombs, and beams in Crimzon Clover. From Japanese indie developer Yotsubane, this retro top-down shooter is a wild ride you won't want to miss out on.
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Ikaruga
Single-player alternative to Red Death — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Red Death.
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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Super Hydorah
Single-player alternative to Red Death — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Red Death.
Super Hydorah is a nonlinear horizontal shoot’ em up designed to offer a challenging experience, sublimating the richness of traditional shmup classics. Face the menace of the Meroptians aboard the Delta Lance, alone or with your friends in this game with direct action and nostalgic art.
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Drifting Lands
Single-player alternative to Red Death — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Red Death.
Drifting Lands is an hybrid of classical horizontal shoot'em'up with a lot of strong gameplay elements coming straight from the action-RPG genre. If you want an original diablo-like game or you want a different kind of shoot'em'up, you're in the right place!
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Syder Arcade
Single-player alternative to Red Death — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Red Death.
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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Reset 1-1
Single-player alternative to Red Death — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Red Death.
The world has ended, Demons have risen to conquer the uninhabited and flourishing nature outside. It's your turn, with your unknown identity, to find your path for a new beginning. Let's not beat about the bush here. Reset 1-1 is everything you loved about the late 80's/early 90's. It's a blast from the past, with a fresh spin.
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Null Drifter
Single-player alternative to Red Death — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Red Death.
Null Drifter is a 1BIT LO-FI shooter, a journey into the void inside a computer simulation! Lose yourself in this frenetic yet chill experience!
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Project Starship X
Single-player alternative to Red Death — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Red Death.
The Rogue-Lite shooter where you CRASH-KILL comical abominations! Pilot your spaceship as Swagthulhu in this original and wacky "Lovecraftian Parody"!
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Pity Pit
Single-player alternative to Red Death — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Red Death.
Dig Dug meets Downwell! Dig your doom, save Gwendoline from the Devil Johnson! 2D platforming, digging, ores, crafting, bombs!!
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Pixel Survivor - Pixel Up!
Single-player alternative to Red Death — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Red Death.
A pixel SURVIVOR ROGUE-LITE that will give you a hypnotic addiction! You do all the usual "Survivor" stuff, but this time you'll have to hire a therapist in order to stop playing!
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Z-Warp
Single-player alternative to Red Death — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Red Death.
Z-Warp is an intense vertical shoot’em up presented in retro pixel art style, featuring frenetic arcade-inspired action where blasters, bombs and KILLER specials are your only allies.
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Feeble Light
Single-player alternative to Red Death — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Red Death.
Blast off as a little star trying to rid the cosmos of angry celestial beings in Feeble Light, a 3-tone pixel art shoot’em up where minimalistic presentation makes way for precision controls and fluid animation!