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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Anno 2070™
Single-player alternative to Space Empires: Starfury — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Space Empires: Starfury.
Build your society of the future, colonize islands, and create sprawling megacities with multitudes of buildings, vehicles, and resources to manage.
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Earth 2160
Single-player alternative to Space Empires: Starfury — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Space Empires: Starfury.
After the destruction of the EARTH in 2150, the leaders of the Eurasian Dynasty escaped on board an evacuation fleet. Now they are fighting for the survival of the human species. Their base is one large building comprising of smaller variable parts.
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X3: Terran Conflict
Single-player alternative to Space Empires: Starfury — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Empires: Starfury.
It is the year 2938. The long wished-for encounter of the X Universe and the Earth holds both joy and sorrow for the people. Despite flourishing trade, the clash of the diverse races, cultures and life forms creates new tensions, mistrust and open conflict that need to be overcome!
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Starpoint Gemini 2
Single-player alternative to Space Empires: Starfury — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Space Empires: Starfury.
Captain your own space ship and roam the galaxy in 3D in this tactical space simulator with tons of RPG depth ! Space has never looked so inviting - but images can betray...It has been two years since the end of the second Gemini war, the situation in the wartorn system is further from resolution than ever.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.