Single-player games like Space Pirates and Zombies
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Space Pirates and Zombies, 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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Space Pirates And Zombies 2
Single-player alternative to Space Pirates and Zombies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Pirates and Zombies.
Design and then improve the ultimate mothership. Explore a persistent living galaxy populated by 200 unique captains that can do everything you can do. Survive the zombie infection and then fight them back. Make allies and start your own faction. Build your empire. Also includes Sandbox Mode.
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Anomalogenos
Single-player alternative to Space Pirates and Zombies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Pirates and Zombies.
A fishing shooter game where you reel in targets to shoot while dodging enemy bullets! Build diverse strategies using active skills deployable during battle and passive skills that constantly activate!
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Star Valor
Single-player alternative to Space Pirates and Zombies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Pirates and Zombies.
Choose your own destiny as you explore an open-world procedurally generated galaxy where anything is possible. Become a miner, a trader, a bounty hunter, a pirate, or perhaps a jack of all trades. Start off small and build your way to the top but remember with every action, comes consequences.
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Transcendence
Single-player alternative to Space Pirates and Zombies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Pirates and Zombies.
Explore the farthest reaches of Human Space in this open-world space adventure. Compelled to journey to the Galactic Core by a mysterious hyperintelligence, you must fight your way through dozens of star systems teeming with clashing empires, expansionist AIs, and fearsome xenophobes.
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Void Destroyer 2
Single-player alternative to Space Pirates and Zombies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Pirates and Zombies.
Start with nothing... End with everything! All you have is a basic ship, barely fit for combat, with it you'll start your journey and empire. A open world space sandbox, inspired by and expanding the classics.
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Reassembly
Single-player alternative to Space Pirates and Zombies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Pirates and Zombies.
A spaceship building and universe-exploration game. Collect resources, expand and grow your fleet, and conquer your personal galaxy. Stellar ambience by Peaks.
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VoidExpanse
Single-player alternative to Space Pirates and Zombies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Pirates and Zombies.
Explore the vast reaches of VoidExpanse -- mine asteroids, upgrade your ship, trade, complete missions, advance your character and survive fast-paced combat with hostile aliens and mercenaries in the rich and exciting Sci-Fi universe of VoidExpanse!
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Windward
Single-player alternative to Space Pirates and Zombies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Pirates and Zombies.
Windward is an action-filled multiplayer sandbox game that puts you in control of a ship sailing the high seas of a large procedurally-generated world.
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Starvector
Single-player alternative to Space Pirates and Zombies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Pirates and Zombies.
Eat a snack while you watch an entire planet burn in your image.
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Starcom: Nexus
Single-player alternative to Space Pirates and Zombies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Pirates and Zombies.
Suddenly thrown into an unknown galaxy, you must explore, fight or befriend aliens and transform your ship from a small survey vessel into a powerful battlecruiser to unravel the mystery of the forces that brought you here and find your way home.
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Croak Crusader: Spawn of the Spore Spectre
Single-player alternative to Space Pirates and Zombies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Pirates and Zombies.
Embark on an odyssey into the unknown! Behold the tale of Toadman, an enigmatic being born from alien tech and the mysteries of Radiant Verde. Witness his perilous quest through treacherous jungles to confront Captain Croak in an epic showdown! Welcome to "Spawn of the Spore Spectre"!
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SPORE™
Single-player alternative to Space Pirates and Zombies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Pirates and Zombies.
Be the architect of your own universe with Spore, an exciting single-player adventure. From Single Cell to Galactic God, evolve your creature in a universe of your own creations.
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Clanfolk
Single-player alternative to Space Pirates and Zombies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Space Pirates and Zombies.
Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.
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GolfTopia
Single-player alternative to Space Pirates and Zombies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Pirates and Zombies.
DESIGN, BUILD and MANAGE your own futuristic golf course. Keep 200 persistent visitors fed, hydrated, and happy. Defend your creation from a growing infestation of weeds with robotic workers and defensive turrets. Evolve your course into a mega resort where nobody wants to go home, EVER!
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No Creeps Were Harmed TD
Single-player alternative to Space Pirates and Zombies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Space Pirates and Zombies.
Employ lethal turrets, traps, and gadgets to defend against an onslaught of evolving creeps! Step into a twisted, hyper 3D, mind bending realm. Upgrade and adapt your defenses. Become a master maze crafter. Collect bizarre artifacts. Rush creeps for lucrative rewards, and succumb to greed!