Single-player games like Tempest 4000
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Tempest 4000, 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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Galactoids - Galactic Invaders
Single-player alternative to Tempest 4000 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Tempest 4000.
Battle swarms of Galactic Invaders in this action-packed retro-inspired arcade shoot em up. May the Nerd be with you.
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ShapeNeon Chaos
Single-player alternative to Tempest 4000 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Tempest 4000.
ShapeNeon Chaos is an old school style space-shooter. You are a ship facing off waves of deadly enemies. This game was made to give you a shot of adrenaline in a couple of minutes. Lots of bullets and neon in an arcade psychedelic shooter!
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Centipede: Recharged
Single-player alternative to Tempest 4000 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Blast bugs and chase high scores in this glorious revival of an old-school classic, all while jamming to a heart-pounding original score by Megan McDuffee. Play solo or tag in a friend for local co-op across 30 unique challenges or the endless arcade mode.
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Waves
Single-player alternative to Tempest 4000 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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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Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story
Single-player alternative to Tempest 4000 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
42 of the weirdest, trippiest, sheepiest games ever created. Enter the mind of Jeff Minter, the legendary creator of Attack of the Mutant Camels, Gridrunner, and Tempest 2000, in this interactive documentary from Digital Eclipse.
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Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved
Single-player alternative to Tempest 4000 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Tempest 4000.
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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Space Invaders Extreme
Single-player alternative to Tempest 4000 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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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Retrowave
Single-player alternative to Tempest 4000 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Tempest 4000.
Neon lights, palm trees, synthwave, '80s supercars speeding down an endless highway... Welcome to the world of Retrowave!
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POLYBIUS
Single-player alternative to Tempest 4000 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
POLYBIUS is a fast, trippy tunnel shooter playable on a normal screen or in VR. 50 levels of blissful trance shooting action are set to a blistering soundtrack. The PS4 version was EDGE Magazine's VR GOTY in 2017, and the PC version of the game was even used as the basis for a NIN music video.
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Space Giraffe
Single-player alternative to Tempest 4000 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Space Giraffe is an abstract action arcade style game that takes place in a succession of beautiful environments generated by an advanced graphics synthesizer. It presents itself as a shooter but the more you play the more you discover the hidden depths and strategies that make the gameplay satisfyingly rich and rewarding.
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Eurofighter Typhoon
Single-player alternative to Tempest 4000 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
In Eurofighter Typhoon, you are flying the famous Eurofighter on top of Iceland to fight against Russian troops which invade the country and prevent the outbreak of World War III. Quickly outnumbered, the ICEFOR has been abandoned by NATO but has been able to deploy a small number of the new Typhoon aircraft.
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Tempest: Pirate Action RPG
Single-player alternative to Tempest 4000 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Tempest is a Pirate Open World Action RPG where you rove the seas across three continents filled with dozens of colonies and forts, hundreds of quests and countless ships to plunder. Customize your ship, trade, challenge fellow pirates and face mythical monsters such as the Kraken and Leviathan!
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Minotaur Arcade Volume 1
Single-player alternative to Tempest 4000 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Minotaur Arcade brings you arcade-style games with a modern twist, playable in 2D or in VR for that 80s Tron "inside an arcade game" feeling. Vol. 1 consists of two Llamasoft classics - "Gridrunner" as the arcade game that might have been, and "GoatUp" as a light-hearted platformer that will have you baaing...
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Moose Life
Single-player alternative to Tempest 4000 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Moose Life is a trippy, psychedelic trance shooter. Created in the style of a 1980s arcade game, Moose Life offers you an exhilarating ride into the trance zone. Spectacular shooty action and a top techno soundtrack will raise your mood. If you have VR, immerse yourself for greater satisfaction.
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Akka Arrh
Single-player alternative to Tempest 4000 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Akka Arrh is a modern take on a scrapped project from the 1980s, providing players with a fast-paced, addictive, arcade shooter experience and psychedelic visuals. Protect your life rings as you chain together combos and go for a high score!
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I, Robot
Single-player alternative to Tempest 4000 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Jeff Minter is back with another unique take on a 1980s Atari arcade game: I, Robot. Reimagined in Minter’s signature assault of colors, shapes and sounds, this new take on the eclectic arcade title is built from the ground up with new challenges, new twists, and a whole lot of llamas.