Single-player games like SkyDrift
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to SkyDrift, 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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GRIP: Combat Racing
Single-player alternative to SkyDrift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Racing with SkyDrift.
Harness gravity-defying speed in classic combat racing taken to the EXTREME. Master wall-riding, ceiling-surfing tracks, and unleash devastating weapons across 29 blistering circuits. Race solo, split-screen, or online with up to 10 players. GRIP delivers white-knuckle racing like nothing else.
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Little Racers STREET
Single-player alternative to SkyDrift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Racing with SkyDrift.
Little Racers STREET fuses the fun-oriented simplicity of top-down racing games with the excitement of street racing, and the results couldn't be better!
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Redout: Enhanced Edition
Single-player alternative to SkyDrift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Racing with SkyDrift.
Redout is a tribute to the old racing monsters such as F-Zero, WipeOut, Rollcage, and POD. It is designed to be an uncompromising, fast, tough and satisfying driving experience, soaked in that vertigo that stands at the core of the arcade racing genre.
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Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit
Single-player alternative to SkyDrift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Racing with SkyDrift.
Need for Speed Hot Pursuit launches you into a new open-world landscape behind the wheel of the world's fastest and most beautiful cars. From Criterion, the award-winning studio behind the Burnout series, Hot Pursuit will redefine racing games for a whole new generation.
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nail'd
Single-player alternative to SkyDrift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Racing with SkyDrift.
Constant sense of ultimate speed is your only companion, and fast reflexes and tactical skills are what stands between victory and defeat. Buy before Dec. 7 10AM PST and get 10% off.
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BlazeRush
Single-player alternative to SkyDrift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Racing with SkyDrift.
BlazeRush is a dynamic arcade racing survival game with no health, no levelling and no brakes! You can assemble a team of friends to play in local or online multiplayer, choose a car to your taste and chase, blow up and cut off! Adapt your style and tactics to new enemies, obstacles and tracks.
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Distance
Single-player alternative to SkyDrift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Racing with SkyDrift.
Distance is an atmospheric racing platformer. Fusing futuristic arcade racing with parkour, survive a deadly, mysterious, neon-drenched city by jumping, rotating, and flying.
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LUFTRAUSERS
Single-player alternative to SkyDrift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with SkyDrift.
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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Imperium Galactica II
Single-player alternative to SkyDrift — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Reintroducing a classic from the golden era of gaming, the original empire building space RTS, Imperium Galactica 2 is back and looking better than ever with new high-res textures and vivid colors.
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Sine Mora
Single-player alternative to SkyDrift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with SkyDrift.
Sine Mora is a horizontal shoot'em up that provides a unique take on challenge, where time is the ultimate factor.
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Sine Mora EX
Single-player alternative to SkyDrift — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Sine Mora EX is a side-scrolling shoot'em up that provides a unique challenge, where time is the ultimate factor. Mixing classic shooter sensibilities with contemporary presentation, Sine Mora EX is a gorgeous shoot'em up offering both a Story Mode that weaves an excessive tale and an Arcade Mode.
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Imperium Galactica
Single-player alternative to SkyDrift — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Imperium Galactica. The Universe is yours... if you can handle it. The fourth millennium. Mankind has colonised the galaxy. Created an Empire. Now, it is crumbling. The aliens are restless. The oppressed are building armies. And a strange invader is headed for the heart of the Empire.
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Haegemonia: Legions of Iron
Single-player alternative to SkyDrift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with SkyDrift.
From the makers of the award-winning Imperium Galactica 1 and 2 games, discover a powerful space-opera like RTS game.
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Haegemonia: The Solon Heritage
Single-player alternative to SkyDrift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with SkyDrift.
A stand-alone expansion pack to Legions of Iron, discover new innovations and even more stunning visuals that launch the Haegemonia experience into light speed.
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Skydrift Infinity
Single-player alternative to SkyDrift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Racing with SkyDrift.
Skydrift Infinity is an action-packed arcade game focusing on the experience of flying alone, and with others, in a light, quick, fast-paced style.