Single-player games like Jet Buster
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Jet Buster, 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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Assault Android Cactus+
Single-player alternative to Jet Buster — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Jet Buster.
Assault Android Cactus is an intense arcade style twin stick shooter - pick from one of nine unique synthetic heroines and blast your way through overwhelming robots hordes to save the ship from its own workforce. Supports single player and local co-op game modes.
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Neptunia Shooter
Single-player alternative to Jet Buster — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Jet Buster.
Armed to the teeth, players begin as Neptune in an unworldly 8-bit space dimension ravaged by creatures who burst endless waves of bullets. Shoot, dodge, and defeat the boss in six unique bullet-hell worlds.
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Pixel Galaxy
Single-player alternative to Jet Buster — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Jet Buster.
A non-shooting shoot 'em up where you must grow, make friends, and survive together.
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Earthion
Single-player alternative to Jet Buster — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Jet Buster.
Earthion is a side-scrolling space shooter developed natively for 16-bit systems. Guide space fighter pilot Azusa Takanashi in her fight to repel the alien invaders and save planet Earth.
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Space Invaders Extreme
Single-player alternative to Jet Buster — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Jet Buster.
The critically acclaimed update to the Space Invaders franchise has arrived to invade Steam with greatly improved graphics and audio! Packed with pulsing, vibrant visuals enhanced further by interactive sound. The invaders have evolved, the question is: can you keep up?
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Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved
Single-player alternative to Jet Buster — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved is a old school style shooter, but remixed for the 21st century with next generation graphics and deep, modern gameplay. Playing is simple: you are a geometric "ship" trapped in a grid world, facing off against waves of deadly wanderers, snakes, and repulsars.
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Project Starship
Single-player alternative to Jet Buster — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Jet Buster.
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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The Bug Butcher
Single-player alternative to Jet Buster — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Jet Buster.
A fast paced action shooter inspired by the arcade classic Super Pang! Use a wide selection of weapons and powerups to tear through increasingly challenging levels.
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Zenodyne R
Single-player alternative to Jet Buster — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Jet Buster.
Zenodyne R is a new 90s-style shoot-'em-up game filled with YM2612 music and real Blast Processing action, where your reflexes and patience will be tested in their entirety! Packed with 6 crazy stages filled wtih bosses, 5 unique ships, unlockables, branching paths and more!
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Super XYX
Single-player alternative to Jet Buster — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Jet Buster.
Super XYX is a new shmup from the creator of Fire Arrow X, Megatank, ZPF and a couple of others. Co-developed and published by Team Grybanser Fox.
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Zenohell
Single-player alternative to Jet Buster — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Jet Buster.
Zenohell is a 90s inspired shoot-em'up (shmup) that is all about simple gameplay, just dodge, shoot, score, with vibrant pixel visuals and a kicking 28 track soundtrack, with lots of content to boot.
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Fire Arrow Plus
Single-player alternative to Jet Buster — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Jet Buster.
Fire Arrow and Fire Arrow X are time attack style shooters with a heavy emphasis on scoring. Otherwisely, you can call them coffee break shmups.
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Zenodeath
Single-player alternative to Jet Buster — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Jet Buster.
Zenodeath is the final entry in the Zeno series, the final evolution, featuring a modern OST by HeavyViper and two gameplay types.