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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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.
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DARIUSBURST Chronicle Saviours
Single-player alternative to Rocket Blasters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Rocket Blasters.
DARIUSBURST Chronicle Saviours is the latest installment in Taito's DARIUS series of arcade-style shooting games. Blast hordes of alien sea-monsters, and blaze your own trail through branching environments.
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Super Hydorah
Single-player alternative to Rocket Blasters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rocket Blasters.
Super Hydorah is a nonlinear horizontal shoot’ em up designed to offer a challenging experience, sublimating the richness of traditional shmup classics. Face the menace of the Meroptians aboard the Delta Lance, alone or with your friends in this game with direct action and nostalgic art.
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Blazing Chrome
Single-player alternative to Rocket Blasters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rocket Blasters.
In Blazing Chrome, bring your best pal and kick some metal butts to free the humankind while enjoying a classic run’n’gun, fully loaded with action and exciting fights!
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Cuphead
Single-player alternative to Rocket Blasters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rocket Blasters.
Cuphead is a classic run and gun action game heavily focused on boss battles. Inspired by cartoons of the 1930s, the visuals and audio are painstakingly created with the same techniques of the era, i.e. traditional hand drawn cel animation, watercolor backgrounds, and original jazz recordings.
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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.
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Intrusion 2
Single-player alternative to Rocket Blasters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rocket Blasters.
"This is some of the most fun I've had with a game so far this year, and it will go down as one of the best side-scrolling shooters of all time." - 9/10, Destructoid
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Super Time Force Ultra
Single-player alternative to Rocket Blasters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rocket Blasters.
Super Time Force Ultra is an insane platformer filled with robots and dinosaurs and fun and time travel... sometimes all at the same time!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.