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Single-player games like Space Empires: Starfury

Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Space Empires: Starfury, 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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    Galaxor — Steam game cover

    Galaxor

    Single-player alternative to Space Empires: Starfury — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Space Empires: Starfury.

    Galaxor is an online sci-fi strategy game where you build planets, research technologies, command fleets and expand your empire across the galaxy. Manage resources, join clans, take part in events and face alien threats in long-term space warfare.

    StrategySimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Swarm Queen — Steam game cover

    Swarm Queen

    Single-player alternative to Space Empires: Starfury — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Space Empires: Starfury.

    A quick-to-learn but challenging real-time strategy game where you spawn an army of space-bugs that control themselves.

    2017StrategyIndieSimulation7.49 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    IFO — Steam game cover

    IFO

    Single-player alternative to Space Empires: Starfury — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Space Empires: Starfury.

    A spaceship simulator for aliens, an ever-changing rule discovery puzzle for humans.

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation3.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Void Destroyer 2 — Steam game cover

    Void Destroyer 2

    Single-player alternative to Space Empires: Starfury — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Empires: Starfury.

    Start with nothing... End with everything! All you have is a basic ship, barely fit for combat, with it you'll start your journey and empire. A open world space sandbox, inspired by and expanding the classics.

    2020ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Galactic Ruler — Steam game cover

    Galactic Ruler

    Single-player alternative to Space Empires: Starfury — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Space Empires: Starfury.

    Galactic Ruler offers real time strategy game play at both planetary level and in space! Lead your faction in diplomacy or conquest across a procedurally generated galactic map where any system might hold hostile enemies or resource riches. Develop advanced technologies to rule the galaxy!

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Interstellaria — Steam game cover

    Interstellaria

    Single-player alternative to Space Empires: Starfury — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Space Empires: Starfury.

    Managing a fleet across a dangerous galaxy. Every star and planet holds untold riches and dangers. Each encounter will require skills in trading, diplomacy, and combat. Allocate power to engines, charge all weapons, and take on the worst the galaxy has to handle.

    2015StrategyIndieAdventure9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Aliens: Dark Descent — Steam game cover

    Aliens: Dark Descent

    Single-player alternative to Space Empires: Starfury — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Empires: Starfury.

    Drop into the gripping journey of Aliens: Dark Descent, a squad-based, single-player action game in the iconic Alien franchise. Lead your soldiers in real-time to stop a new and terrifying kind of Xenomorph outbreak on Planet Lethe.

    2023ActionStrategy39.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    BattleGroupVR — Steam game cover

    BattleGroupVR

    Single-player alternative to Space Empires: Starfury — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Empires: Starfury.

    BattleGroupVR is a first person real-time space strategy where you lead a fleet of powerful warships into battle from the bridge of your own flagship. Assemble your fleet, upgrade your load-outs, train your captains, engage the enemy and secure the sector. Try not to go down with the ship.

    2023ActionStrategySimulation24.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Space Empires V — Steam game cover

    Space Empires V

    Single-player alternative to Space Empires: Starfury — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Space Empires: Starfury.

    Space Empires V is the latest edition in the Space Empires series. This new chapter completely updates the UI and takes the player into a real-time rendered 3D universe. Watch space battles played out in glorious detail and realistic effects. Expand, Explore, Exploit, and Exterminate in a huge living breathing galaxy.

    2006Strategy3.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Space Empires IV Deluxe — Steam game cover

    Space Empires IV Deluxe

    Single-player alternative to Space Empires: Starfury — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Space Empires: Starfury.

    The award-winning Space Empires IV Deluxe is the latest edition in the Space Empires series. A grand strategy title in the space 4X (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate) genre, Space Empires has already found a place in the heart of strategy gamers everywhere.

    2006Strategy3.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Space Empires I — Steam game cover

    Space Empires I

    Single-player alternative to Space Empires: Starfury — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Space Empires: Starfury.

    Space Empires I is the first chapter of the Space Empires series. A classic galactic conquest and turn-based strategy video game where you are the leader of a race of intelligent beings building large spaceships for interplanetary and interstellar travel through warp points between star systems.

    2020Strategy1.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Space Empires II — Steam game cover

    Space Empires II

    Single-player alternative to Space Empires: Starfury — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Space Empires: Starfury.

    Explore the galaxy, discover and colonize new planets to acquire enough resources. Design your ships, choosing from different hulls, weapons, shields, and several devices. Once you advance with technologies, new systems will be available, and you will have to update your designs.

    2020Strategy2.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Space Empires III — Steam game cover

    Space Empires III

    Single-player alternative to Space Empires: Starfury — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Space Empires: Starfury.

    The third game within the Space Empires series brings the dawn of a new age of exploration. Your race keeps running through the fabric of space and moves to other solar systems beyond your own.

    2020Strategy3.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →