Single-player games like Space Pirates and Zombies
Below are 13 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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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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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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EVERSPACE™ 2
Single-player alternative to Space Pirates and Zombies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Space Pirates and Zombies.
EVERSPACE 2 is a fast-paced single-player spaceship shooter with exploration in space and on planets, tons of loot, RPG elements, mining, and crafting. Experience an exciting sci-fi story set in a vivid, handcrafted open world full of secrets, puzzles, and perils.
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Gratuitous Space Battles
Single-player alternative to Space Pirates and Zombies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Pirates and Zombies.
The first ever auto-battler game, from way back in 2009Who needs backstory? Who needs resource-gathering? Diplomacy is so last year. Gratuitous Space Battles cuts right to the chase of sci-fi strategy games, and deals with large, completely unjustified space battles between huge opposing space fleets.
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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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Ring Runner: Flight of the Sages
Single-player alternative to Space Pirates and Zombies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Pirates and Zombies.
Ring Runner combines the fast-paced action of space combat with the rich story and skill variety of an RPG.Trek across the universe in a 30 hour long story-driven campaign based on a companion Sci Fi novel, or challenge 6 scenarios alone, cooperatively, or competitively through local or online multiplayer.
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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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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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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!