Single-player games like Aliens: Dark Descent
Below are 21 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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Millennium Conflict
Single-player alternative to Aliens: Dark Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Aliens: Dark Descent.
You are the last survivor. Capture towers, command a squad of unique generals, and battle through 40 missions across 10 distinct worlds as you fight to reclaim a universe that has fallen to the enemy.
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Soul Tides
Single-player alternative to Aliens: Dark Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Aliens: Dark Descent.
Command dark armies in this tug-of-war auto-battler. Build your base, summon units, customize abilities, and push the battlefield toward your enemy’s stronghold. Adapt your strategy each match and dominate in PvP, co-op, or Trials mode.
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The Outpost: Outer Frontier
Single-player alternative to Aliens: Dark Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Aliens: Dark Descent.
Lead the forces of a human empire in a brutal squad-based RTS. Capture territory, secure vital sectors, deploy fortifications, and unlock new units and upgrades mid-battle to outmaneuver and crush the alien threat.
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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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Knights vs Aliens
Single-player alternative to Aliens: Dark Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Aliens: Dark Descent.
Command knights, aliens, and other historically dubious nations in a free real-time tower conquest game rebuilt from a 2009 iPad original. Grow armies, capture towers, and outmaneuver adaptive AI through 30 campaign levels.
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Dead Space
Single-player alternative to Aliens: Dark Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Aliens: Dark Descent.
The sci-fi survival-horror classic returns, completely rebuilt to offer an even more immersive experience — including visual, audio, and gameplay improvements — while staying faithful to the original game’s thrilling vision.
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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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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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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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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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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!