Single-player games like The Thing: Space X
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to The Thing: Space X, 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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Monkey Slap
Single-player alternative to The Thing: Space X — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Thing: Space X.
Go on a long adventure with funny monkeys. Tropical islands, hot deserts, frozen plains. Fight with evil primates. Collect coins and equip your character with different weapons, clothes, skill enhancements. Each new level is more complicated than the previous one.
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Flinthook
Single-player alternative to The Thing: Space X — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Thing: Space X.
Live the life of space captain Flinthook! Armed with your mighty hookshot, your uncanny slow-motion powers and your trusty blasma pistol, plunder and fight your way through an infinite variety of randomly-assembled spaceships for treasure, loot and fame!
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Axiom Verge
Single-player alternative to The Thing: Space X — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Thing: Space X.
Explore and uncover the mystery of a surreal alien world by blasting aliens and glitching your environment in this intense retro side-scrolling action/adventure.
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CRYPTARK
Single-player alternative to The Thing: Space X — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Thing: Space X.
Cryptark is a 2D sci-fi shooter where you take on the role of a heavily armed privateer seeking to earn government contracts by boarding deadly alien space-hulks. It's up to you to strategize a plan of attack, pick an equipment loadout, and destroy the central core to be victorious.
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Polygon Attack
Single-player alternative to The Thing: Space X — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Thing: Space X.
Break through unlimited waves of enemies and fight unpredictable bosses!
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Heat Signature
Single-player alternative to The Thing: Space X — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Thing: Space X.
Heat Signature is a game from the developers of Gunpoint where you break into spaceships, make terrible mistakes, and think of clever ways out of them. You take a mission, fly to the target ship, sneak inside, and make clever use of your gadgets to distract, ambush and take out the crew.
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Lichtspeer
Single-player alternative to The Thing: Space X — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Thing: Space X.
LICHTSPEER is an unforgiving fast-paced lightspear-throwing simulator set in an ancient germanic future. Get ready to feel that beloved 80’s arcade rush in this brutal, stylish and psychedelic adventure. Embrace the future, eat Strudel, play LICHTSPEER.
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Terrian Saga: KR-17
Single-player alternative to The Thing: Space X — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Thing: Space X.
KR-17 is a 32-bit, story-driven, side-scrolling action puzzle-platformer which follows the story of a military robot on a mission to subdue a rogue agent operating out of an installation on the planet Valiant. It will be the first in a multi-genre series of games centered around the story of Terrius, KR-17's home.
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Ruin City Gasolina
Single-player alternative to The Thing: Space X — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Thing: Space X.
Eliminate the invasion of mechanical invaders and save what remains of the once great city.
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Quad Hopping
Single-player alternative to The Thing: Space X — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Thing: Space X.
The simplest puzzle game is the reaction and the ability to make quick decisions. As we move, we score points and the game gradually accelerates, it is already harder to catch up on the cherished platform to jump even further, to a greater result.
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StepX
Single-player alternative to The Thing: Space X — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Thing: Space X.
The most popular music game is now available on steam. The easiest way to realize your musical ideas is with just a few mouse clicks. In front of you is a panel with notes with different musical instruments. You can adjust the tempo, volume, tonality. You can import and export your creations.
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Airstrike One
Single-player alternative to The Thing: Space X — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Thing: Space X.
You have an unique opportunity to control a deadly fighter. To break through temporary stretches and destroy as many enemy combat units as possible. You can use a high-speed machine gun and homing air-to-air missiles. Pick up the powerups to add armor and ammo.
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Snakeez
Single-player alternative to The Thing: Space X — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Thing: Space X.
SNAKeez is a simple "snake" classic style game but with different physics.Here you have to collect not apples but eggs and snake's tail grows much faster.
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Protect Me
Single-player alternative to The Thing: Space X — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Thing: Space X.
Protect me, and I I'll help you do it more effectively.
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Pixelord
Single-player alternative to The Thing: Space X — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Thing: Space X.
The simplest click runner for a long distance. Avoid the traps, jump over the abysses, run as far as possible from the haunting danger and maybe at the end expects salvation.
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Tactical Operations
Single-player alternative to The Thing: Space X — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Thing: Space X.
Tactical Operations is a subsystem of investigative, organizational-preparatory, other actions and operational-search activities conducted under a single plan and aimed at solving individual intermediate tasks subordinated to the general objectives of investigating a criminal case.