Single-player games like Aliens: Dark Descent
Below are 20 single-player Steam games similar to Aliens: Dark Descent, 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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Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew
Single-player alternative to Aliens: Dark Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Aliens: Dark Descent.
Assemble your crew and set sail on an infamous ghost ship to sneak, stab, and spellcast your way through the Inquisition in this non-linear stealth strategy game. Chart a course, develop uncanny abilities, and use unconventional tactics to find a powerful pirate artifact!
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SYNCHRONIZERS: UNDEAD MARINES
Single-player alternative to Aliens: Dark Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Aliens: Dark Descent.
"SYNCHRONIZERS: UNDEAD MARINES" blends high-quality Three-Lane Tower Defense with Reverse Tower Defense gameplay. Command your units in a thrilling narrative reminiscent of a StarCraft and Plants Vs. Zombies fusion! Your choices will forge the path to victory—or defeat.
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Commandos: Origins
Single-player alternative to Aliens: Dark Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Aliens: Dark Descent.
ALARM! You have been selected for a mission which will shape the fate of the entire world. Witness the very beginning of the legendary elite WWII force in Commandos: Origins. The long-awaited sequel to the Commandos series brings you right back to the foundation of the real-time tactics genre.
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Red Conflict 2044
Single-player alternative to Aliens: Dark Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Aliens: Dark Descent.
An alternate reality sci-fi survival RTS. Command, defend and dominate in 2044 against endless waves of Soviet super soldiers. Two factions, each with their own distinct technology and tactics.
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Swarm Queen
Single-player alternative to Aliens: Dark Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Aliens: Dark Descent.
A quick-to-learn but challenging real-time strategy game where you spawn an army of space-bugs that control themselves.
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Homeworld 3
Single-player alternative to Aliens: Dark Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Aliens: Dark Descent.
Tactical, beautiful, and wholly unique, the GOTY-winning sci-fi RTS returns with Homeworld 3. Assume control and battle through fleet combat in dazzling, fully 3D space while the award-winning story unfolds on a galactic scale.
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Total War: THREE KINGDOMS
Single-player alternative to Aliens: Dark Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Aliens: Dark Descent.
Total War: THREE KINGDOMS is the first in the award-winning series to recreate epic conflict across ancient China. Combining a gripping turn-based campaign of empire-building & conquest with stunning real-time battles, THREE KINGDOMS redefines the series in an age of heroes & legends.
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Battlefleet Gothic: Armada (Classic)
Single-player alternative to Aliens: Dark Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Aliens: Dark Descent.
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada is the RTS videogame adaptation of Games Workshop’s classic tabletop game, pitting the Chaos, Imperium, Eldar, and Orks against each other in visceral space-battles.
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XCOM® 2
Single-player alternative to Aliens: Dark Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Aliens: Dark Descent.
XCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 award-winning strategy game of the year. Earth has changed and is now under alien rule. Facing impossible odds you must rebuild XCOM, and ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity.
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The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
Single-player alternative to Aliens: Dark Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Aliens: Dark Descent.
The year is 1962 and the Cold War has the nation gripped by fear. A top-secret government unit called The Bureau begins investigating a series of mysterious attacks by an enemy more powerful than communism.
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Door Kickers 2: Task Force North
Single-player alternative to Aliens: Dark Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Aliens: Dark Descent.
Command military Special Ops Teams in gripping tactical combat against a Middle East-based terrorist network. Sequel to RockPaperShotgun's "Best Tactics Game of 2014".
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Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun
Single-player alternative to Aliens: Dark Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Aliens: Dark Descent.
Shadow Tactics is a hardcore tactical stealth game set in Japan around the Edo period. A new Shogun seizes power over Japan and enforces nationwide peace. In his battle against conspiracy and rebellion, he recruits five specialists with extraordinary skills for assassination, sabotage and espionage.
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UFO
Single-player alternative to Aliens: Dark Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
About, A Boy's Summer Dream.
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Alien: Isolation
Single-player alternative to Aliens: Dark Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Aliens: Dark Descent.
Discover the true meaning of fear in Alien: Isolation, a survival horror set in an atmosphere of constant dread and mortal danger.
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Men of War: Assault Squad 2
Single-player alternative to Aliens: Dark Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Aliens: Dark Descent.
Men of War: Assault Squad 2 expands the real-time tactics series with new skirmish missions, massive multiplayer battles, enhanced visuals, improved AI, and full Direct Control. Command five factions across 65 maps, 250 vehicles, and 200 soldiers in one of the most detailed WWII RTS experiences.
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METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN
Single-player alternative to Aliens: Dark Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Aliens: Dark Descent.
Ushering in a new era for the METAL GEAR franchise with cutting-edge technology powered by the Fox Engine, METAL GEAR SOLID V: The Phantom Pain, will provide players a first-rate gaming experience as they are offered tactical freedom to carry out open-world missions.
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Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2
Single-player alternative to Aliens: Dark Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Aliens: Dark Descent.
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 is the new real-time strategy game adapted from Games Workshop’s famous tabletop game that portrays the epic space battles of the Warhammer 40,000 universe.
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EverSiege: Untold Ages
Single-player alternative to Aliens: Dark Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Aliens: Dark Descent.
Retreating ends here. Defend Bastion against evil hordes, reclaim lost powers, rebuild ancient ruins, and adapt your tactics to reverse the siege. Shape your playstyle in this hero-strategy rogue-lite solo or co-op up to 3 players.
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Etherium
Single-player alternative to Aliens: Dark Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Aliens: Dark Descent.
Etherium is a real-time strategy game set in a science-fiction universe, where three factions battle it out for a mysterious and rare resource known as ‘Etherium’.
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Bunker Constructor
Single-player alternative to Aliens: Dark Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Aliens: Dark Descent.
In Bunker Constructor you build strong bunkers that protect against enemy attacks. You must build resilient bunkers through 45 levels and in 5 environments including desert, forest, beach, mountains and city ruins, because the next attack wave is already underway!