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Single-player games like Rocket Blasters

Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Rocket Blasters, 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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    Offendron Warrior — Steam game cover

    Offendron Warrior

    Single-player alternative to Rocket Blasters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rocket Blasters.

    Offendron Warrior is a retro arcade that combines shooting and defense. Your objective is saving Offendron civilians in the planets from the group of enemies, who are trying to spread a virus that turns Offendrons into mindless killing machines and eventually destroy the whole planet.

    2018ActionIndieFree To Play0.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Hyper Simon X — Steam game cover

    Hyper Simon X

    Single-player alternative to Rocket Blasters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rocket Blasters.

    Hyper Simon X is an Arcade Shoot 'Em Up Puzzle game that ingeniously blends SHMUP mechanics with the classic nostalgia of 'Simon Says' memory games. Prepare for a challenge like no other as you destroy the enemies in the exact order displayed!

    2018ActionIndie4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Mud River — Steam game cover

    Mud River

    Single-player alternative to Rocket Blasters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rocket Blasters.

    Mud River is a horizontal 2D Shoot‘em Up game. The Rio Doce (Sweet River) was a paradise for mankind and animals, but now it has become a territory destroyed by the unscrupulous activities of Dr. Wellin. This is Pacal's first destination, ascending the Rio Doce preventing its complete destruction.

    2021ActionIndieCasual6.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Syder Arcade — Steam game cover

    Syder Arcade

    Single-player alternative to Rocket Blasters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rocket Blasters.

    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.

    2013ActionIndie9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Bouncy Bob: Episode 2 — Steam game cover

    Bouncy Bob: Episode 2

    Single-player alternative to Rocket Blasters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rocket Blasters.

    Bouncy Bob 2 is a crazy couch co-op game for up to 4 players. Choose one of 12 different characters. Customize your color, choose one of 14 arenas and get ready for the ultimate bouncy bobbing.

    2019ActionIndieCasual4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    ZOE Begone! — Steam game cover

    ZOE Begone!

    Single-player alternative to Rocket Blasters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Rocket Blasters.

    A frenetic hand-drawn bullet hell shooter, blending run-and-gun mechanics with classic shmup action in looping arenas. Inspired by drawn-on-film animation of the 1930's - shoot, dash and pound your way through the Animator's creations.

    2025Action9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Jets'n'Guns Gold — Steam game cover

    Jets'n'Guns Gold

    Single-player alternative to Rocket Blasters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rocket Blasters.

    Jets'n'Guns is a heavy piece of ground shaking rock blasting action with graphics and special effects that will blow you eyes out! Enjoy yourself in almost-insane action adventure of saving the universe from the deadly threat of more than 270 unique monsters in the campaign of 43 levels.

    2014ActionIndie7.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Freedom Finger — Steam game cover

    Freedom Finger

    Single-player alternative to Rocket Blasters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rocket Blasters.

    Freedom Finger is a music driven, side-scrolling shooter that sends you blasting and punching through 40 levels of bat$#!% crazy action. Starring Nolan North, John DiMaggio, and Sam Riegel! Soundtrack by Aesop Rock, Red Fang, Com Truise, Power Trip, Ty Segall, and many more!

    2019ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Islands of the Caliph — Steam game cover

    Islands of the Caliph

    Single-player alternative to Rocket Blasters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rocket Blasters.

    Islands of the Caliph is an old-school inspired action RPG based on Middle Eastern folklore and Islamic spiritual tradition. A KEYBOARD ONLY 1980s style Dungeon Crawler with an open world.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Star Explorers — Steam game cover

    Star Explorers

    Single-player alternative to Rocket Blasters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rocket Blasters.

    Planets, aliens, resources, upgrades, caves, mapping & documenting star systems ... seek a new home for the human race. An all-inclusive (admittedly janky) procedural space-sim made by solo developer Schmidt Workshops.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Cyclopean: The Great Abyss — Steam game cover

    Cyclopean: The Great Abyss

    Single-player alternative to Rocket Blasters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Rocket Blasters.

    Cyclopean: The Great Abyss is a small scale, mechanics driven CRPG/Roguelike in a retro, monochromatic style, that takes place in the underworld of H.P. Lovecraft's Dreamlands.

    2025IndieAdventureRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Anomalies — Steam game cover

    Anomalies

    Single-player alternative to Rocket Blasters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Rocket Blasters.

    Are you looking for something completely different? An oddity? An enigma? Or perhaps .. an Anomaly? Anomalies may be a game, then again it may not. One user described it as "A million musical leeches, waiting to suck the serotonin from my brain." And that's just the beginning...

    2016IndieSimulationCasual3.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Paradox Vector — Steam game cover

    Paradox Vector

    Single-player alternative to Rocket Blasters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rocket Blasters.

    Explore impossible mazes while battling the Ancient Ones and their bio-mechanical servitors in this retro first-person, Lovecraft inspired shooter. Paradox Vector's graphics are inspired by the old-school vector graphics games of the early 1980's.

    2020ActionIndie4.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Aberration Analyst — Steam game cover

    Aberration Analyst

    Single-player alternative to Rocket Blasters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Rocket Blasters.

    Work strange hours ... analyze incomplete and unreliable information ... save the world from monsters, and shut down their means of access in this experimental, point-and-click supernatural strategy simulator.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →