Single-player games like Super XYX
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Super XYX, 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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Ikaruga
Single-player alternative to Super XYX — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Super XYX.
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 Super XYX — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Super XYX.
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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Super Hydorah
Single-player alternative to Super XYX — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Super XYX.
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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Jamestown
Single-player alternative to Super XYX — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Super XYX.
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 Super XYX — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Super XYX.
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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Waves
Single-player alternative to Super XYX — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Super XYX.
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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Mirage Feathers
Single-player alternative to Super XYX — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Super XYX.
「Maybe one day, I won't have to fight when I fly.」
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ZeroRanger
Single-player alternative to Super XYX — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Super XYX.
This is the story of a fighter who wanted to become...
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Zenodeath
Single-player alternative to Super XYX — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Super XYX.
Zenodeath is the final entry in the Zeno series, the final evolution, featuring a modern OST by HeavyViper and two gameplay types.
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Batsugun
Single-player alternative to Super XYX — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Super XYX.
Experience the epic conclusion of Toaplan's legendary shooter series with Batsugun including the lauded Special version! Choose your favorite character and spaceship in this thrilling genre-defining bullet-hell action. Now on PC with modern enhancements!
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Zenohell
Single-player alternative to Super XYX — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Super XYX.
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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Zenodyne R
Single-player alternative to Super XYX — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Super XYX.
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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Fire Arrow Plus
Single-player alternative to Super XYX — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Super XYX.
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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Jet Buster
Single-player alternative to Super XYX — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Super XYX.
Jet Buster is the new 90s anthro shmup, going back to the cuter roots of the genre.