Single-player games like Distant Space 2
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Distant Space 2, 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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Distant Space
Single-player alternative to Distant Space 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Distant Space 2.
Distant Space are present the arcade game of cosmic fights in arcade style of the 80's, this is a game where you can control the spaceship and forced to destroy extraterrestrials, which are moving in the certain order.
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Space Invaders Extreme
Single-player alternative to Distant Space 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Distant Space 2.
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 Distant Space 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Distant Space 2.
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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LUFTRAUSERS
Single-player alternative to Distant Space 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Distant Space 2.
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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Ikaruga
Single-player alternative to Distant Space 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Distant Space 2.
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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Beat Hazard
Single-player alternative to Distant Space 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Distant Space 2.
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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Hell is Other Demons
Single-player alternative to Distant Space 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Distant Space 2.
Hell is Other Demons is an action-platform shooter, with Roguelite elements. Explore a sprawling, hand-crafted world full of demons, insanely over-the-top boss fights, and a heavy synthwave soundtrack.
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Syder Arcade
Single-player alternative to Distant Space 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Distant Space 2.
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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Rez Infinite
Single-player alternative to Distant Space 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Distant Space 2.
The legendary action-shooter finally comes to PC, and in style! Blast your way through mind-melting visuals and amazing beats, all in your quest through cyberspace to save a world on the verge of collapse. Playable on your desktop or in fully immersive VR.
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RAIN Project - a touhou fangame
Single-player alternative to Distant Space 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Distant Space 2.
RAIN Project is a Touhou fangame re-imagined as a platforming boss-bash! After a ritual gone wrong, the newbie shrine maiden Sanae awakes in a world of fantasy. With only the storms to guide her, Sanae sets off to scale a towering mountain in search of answers.
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Space Wars
Single-player alternative to Distant Space 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Distant Space 2.
Space Wars is an exciting 2D space shooter. It has tons of powerups, tons of action, and tons of hardcore gameplay!
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R-Type Final 2
Single-player alternative to Distant Space 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Distant Space 2.
R-Type has returned! The legendary side-scroller is back and better than ever with beautifully rendered 3D graphics, exhilarating shoot-'em-up gameplay, and a multitude of stages, ships, and weapons that will allow you to conduct a symphony of destruction upon your foes.
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Minimalism
Single-player alternative to Distant Space 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Distant Space 2.
Minimalism - platformer with a lot of levels, made in minimalist style - which is a cube protogonist. The game is a kind of labyrinth consisting of levels, to go between them you need to open the doors with collected keys.