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Single-player games like Star Ships

Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Star Ships, 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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    Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 — Steam game cover

    Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2

    Single-player alternative to Star Ships — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Star Ships.

    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.

    2019Strategy19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Planetary Annihilation: TITANS — Steam game cover

    Planetary Annihilation: TITANS

    Single-player alternative to Star Ships — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Star Ships.

    Wage war across entire solar systems with massive armies at your command. Annihilate enemy forces with world-shattering TITAN-class units, and demolish planets with massive super weapons!

    2015ActionStrategyIndie29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Total War: THREE KINGDOMS — Steam game cover

    Total War: THREE KINGDOMS

    Single-player alternative to Star Ships — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Star Ships.

    Total War: THREE KINGDOMS is the first in the award-winning series to recreate epic conflict across ancient China. Combining a gripping turn-based campaign of empire-building & conquest with stunning real-time battles, THREE KINGDOMS redefines the series in an age of heroes & legends.

    2019ActionStrategy59.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Men of War: Assault Squad 2 — Steam game cover

    Men of War: Assault Squad 2

    Single-player alternative to Star Ships — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Star Ships.

    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.

    2014ActionStrategySimulation29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Men of War™ — Steam game cover

    Men of War™

    Single-player alternative to Star Ships — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Star Ships.

    Men of War is a stunning Real-Time Strategy game that takes place during the height of World War II. Intense battles span Europe and North Africa as gamers play as Soviet, Allied or German forces across 19 massive single-player missions.

    2009Strategy4.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Men of War: Assault Squad — Steam game cover

    Men of War: Assault Squad

    Single-player alternative to Star Ships — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Star Ships.

    Men of War: Assault Squad delivers a deeply tactical WWII experience, blending large-scale strategy with intense, hands-on combat. Fight across multiple fronts – from European countryside to Pacific jungles and command every unit and every bullet on the battlefield.

    2011Strategy9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Men of War: Vietnam — Steam game cover

    Men of War: Vietnam

    Single-player alternative to Star Ships — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Star Ships.

    Men of War: Vietnam brings the acclaimed real-time tactics series into a new theater of war – the jungles of Southeast Asia, 1968. Experience the chaos of the Vietnam War through two story-driven campaigns that reveal both sides of the conflict.

    2011Strategy7.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Faces of War — Steam game cover

    Faces of War

    Single-player alternative to Star Ships — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Star Ships.

    Faces of War puts you in the heart of World War II – not as a distant commander, but as the leader on the ground. Combining the tactical depth of real-time strategy with the immediacy of direct control, it lets you issue precise orders or jump straight into battle as one of your soldiers.

    2014ActionStrategySimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →