Single-player games like Stella Pastoris
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Stella Pastoris, 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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ORACLE: Humanity, Automated
Single-player alternative to Stella Pastoris — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stella Pastoris.
Raise a civilization from its first campfire to the age of artificial intelligence in this contemplative idle strategy game. Assign people, grow knowledge, automate every human craft, and listen as ORACLE remembers what progress creates—and what it quietly leaves behind.
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Hive Xenotype
Single-player alternative to Stella Pastoris — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stella Pastoris.
Biopunk survival strategy — take command of the last remaining posthumans. Adapt to a harsh and forgotten planet, but keep the local ecosystem in balance — otherwise the last of humanity is doomed. Will you assimilate this world, or lead your people to extinction?
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夕照原
Single-player alternative to Stella Pastoris — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stella Pastoris.
《夕照原》是一款另类的殖民地建设游戏,作为一名普通市民,你无法操纵他人,只能依靠自己的努力,去创造影响。 但请相信,城市不会辜负于你。
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SPORE™
Single-player alternative to Stella Pastoris — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Stella Pastoris.
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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A Planet of Mine Legacy
Single-player alternative to Stella Pastoris — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stella Pastoris.
A Planet of Mine is a mini procedural 4X. Starting from a single and unique planet, survive, gather and combine resources, develop your technologies and start the conquest of space.
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The Universim
Single-player alternative to Stella Pastoris — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stella Pastoris.
Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.
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Floodland
Single-player alternative to Stella Pastoris — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Stella Pastoris.
A society survival game set in a world destroyed by climate change. Explore, scavenge and build a city to unite the clans. Conflicting cultures and limited resources mean you need to make tough choices; have you got what it takes to lead your people into a new era of humanity?
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Quarantineer
Single-player alternative to Stella Pastoris — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stella Pastoris.
For the glory of Motherland, the truth shall never be revealed. None of us expected this, Yet history is repeating itself.
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Xenocide
Single-player alternative to Stella Pastoris — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Stella Pastoris.
Preserve the hierarchy of humanity's distant mechanical children by cleansing the galaxy in this transhumanist turn-based tactical tale. Capture factories from unworthy machines and claim the holy words to access the tomb of the Man the All-Maker.
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Unearth
Single-player alternative to Stella Pastoris — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Stella Pastoris.
Dig for the bones of your creators in this mashup of Bomberman, Digdug, and Lemmings.
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Search for Sol
Single-player alternative to Stella Pastoris — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Stella Pastoris.
The children of long-extinct humanity desperately search for the legendary artifact system of Sol. Search for Sol is a sci-fi 4X in the tradition of Reach for the Stars, Master of Orion, and Star Traders. Control Sol for 50 years to ascend to flesh once again.
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Degrowth
Single-player alternative to Stella Pastoris — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Stella Pastoris.
Unbuild various cities in order to convince citizens of the benefits of cloud based living! Perform demolition using our simple one-click interface, but be careful not to delete the homes of citizens who are still employed! Your work is complete when everyone's brain is uploaded to the cloud!
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Gulf Strike
Single-player alternative to Stella Pastoris — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Gulf Strike is a top-down helicopter shooter from 1991. A rogue nation is threatening the oil industry in the middle east! Complete the 6 sandbox campaigns by destroying enemy units while searching for supplies. It's time for another strike in the desert!