Single-player games like While you are Downloading
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to While you are Downloading, 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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Neon Infinity
Single-player alternative to While you are Downloading — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with While you are Downloading.
80's neon drenched, couch co-op, endless high score fest, space arcade shooter!
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Spacey Vade
Single-player alternative to While you are Downloading — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with While you are Downloading.
Synth-wave styled physics based 2D puzzle shooter filled with nods to the golden era of classic arcade games. Think upside down Peggle crossed with Space Invaders and enemies crafted from the blended remains 70's, and 80’s gaming.
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I, AI
Single-player alternative to While you are Downloading — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with While you are Downloading.
Classic scrolling shooter with modern graphics. You are self-aware AI. You were created on space military station developing weapons. Now your goal is to break out of the lab and win your freedom.
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Space Warpster
Single-player alternative to While you are Downloading — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with While you are Downloading.
A fast-paced retro arcade shooter inspired by classic 1980s side-scrolling space combat. Weave through organic obstacles, survive relentless enemy waves, and defeat powerful end-level bosses in a pure, skill-driven singleplayer experience.
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A Blast From The Past
Single-player alternative to While you are Downloading — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with While you are Downloading.
A Blast from the Past is a stunning, classic arcade shooter. Includes gameplay modes for the casual gamer through to "Tournament Mode" for Hi-Score hunters! With 4K/360Hz+ support, experience smooth as silk gameplay in this dazzling arcade blaster with something for every arcade-going fan!
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Return Ace
Single-player alternative to While you are Downloading — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with While you are Downloading.
Be shot and shoot back! Rule reversal type Shmup "Return Ace"What you have been given is the power to take advantage of the oncoming malice and return it.Please enjoy the unique sense of incompatibility, tension, and striking that the experience of bullet energy weaves.
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Ultra Mission™
Single-player alternative to While you are Downloading — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with While you are Downloading.
Embark on a dangerous investigation in Ultra Mission™, the latest game by Gumbo Machine™. As an agent of the Stellar Exchange Commission, you must traverse the 20 dizzying levels within Otto Labs, each littered with powerful automatons and questionable experiments. This is going to be a blast!
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2nd Shot
Single-player alternative to While you are Downloading — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with While you are Downloading.
In the vast depths of space, lies a man with a dark past. Setting himself apart from that old life, and seeking justice against wrongdoing instead of being the cause of it, Captain Righteous uses the Freedom Fighter, his trusty space fighter to search for and combat the evil Captain Buster!