Single-player games like Artificial Extinction
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Artificial Extinction, 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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Scraptory
Single-player alternative to Artificial Extinction — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Artificial Extinction.
Command a walking factory-castle in a feudal sci-fi sandbox strategy RPG with roguelite elements. Race across an open world to salvage alien-infested spaceships crashing from orbit. Build industries and defenses, recruit vassals, and decide the fates of competing factions.
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Don't Mind the Robots
Single-player alternative to Artificial Extinction — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Artificial Extinction.
Build deadly mazes and outsmart a rogue AI in this strategic tower defense game. Adapt your defenses, use aiming parameters to your advantage, and activate powerful perks to survive increasingly complex waves of incoming robots.
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The Riftbreaker: Prologue
Single-player alternative to Artificial Extinction — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Artificial Extinction.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
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Dungeon of the ENDLESS™
Single-player alternative to Artificial Extinction — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Artificial Extinction.
Dungeon of the ENDLESS™ is a Rogue-Like Dungeon-Defense game, in which the player and their team of heroes must protect the generator of their crashed ship while exploring an ever-expanding dungeon, all while facing waves of monsters and special events as they try to find their way out...
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Revenge of the Titans
Single-player alternative to Artificial Extinction — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Artificial Extinction.
The ultimate mash-up of Real-time Strategy and Tower Defense!
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Legends of Ellaria
Single-player alternative to Artificial Extinction — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Artificial Extinction.
Legends of Ellaria is a unique blend of sandbox action-RPG and real-time strategy. Build a new kingdom for your people, construct and manage its cities, command your troops in epic battles and join them fighting in third-person action, and live adventures in an immersive high fantasy world.
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Freaking Meatbags
Single-player alternative to Artificial Extinction — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Artificial Extinction.
Land on a planet, pick up some rocks, leave before the solar system explodes. Oh, and don't die in the nightly robot attacks! Freaking Meatbags is a humorous real-time strategy game that's all about building a base, mixing meatbag DNA, then convincing those dolts to help you gather resources.
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Machine Mind
Single-player alternative to Artificial Extinction — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Artificial Extinction.
Machine Mind is an action game in a post-apocalyptic setting with elements of survival and RTS. You will fight, craft modules, build your transport, develop and protect your base. You can control other vehicles to automate operations. Discover all the secrets of the destroyed world!
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Artificial Extinction 2
Single-player alternative to Artificial Extinction — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Artificial Extinction.
A Tower Defense hybrid where survival depends on strategy and firepower. Build turrets, mine resources, and hold the line against relentless AI swarms. Switch instantly between commanding the battlefield in RTS view or fighting on the ground in FPS combat.