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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Cuphead
Single-player alternative to Red Death — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Red Death.
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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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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LUFTRAUSERS
Single-player alternative to Red Death — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Red Death.
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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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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Nex Machina
Single-player alternative to Red Death — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Red Death.
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 Red Death — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Red Death.
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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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!