Single-player games like Distant Worlds 2
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Distant Worlds 2, 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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Distant Worlds: Universe
Single-player alternative to Distant Worlds 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Distant Worlds 2.
Distant Worlds is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game. Experience the full depth and detail of turn-based strategy, but with the simplicity and ease of real-time, and on the scale of a massively-multiplayer online game.
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Solar Wave
Single-player alternative to Distant Worlds 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Distant Worlds 2.
A large-scale 4X strategy game with indirect control and a focus on simulating a space empire. Capture systems, develop your economy and logistics, call up hundreds of powerful fleets and watch them incinerate enemies of the Solar Empire.
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Beyond Astra
Single-player alternative to Distant Worlds 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Distant Worlds 2.
Lead your civilization in a galaxy brimming with life and intrigue. Seamlessly explore and expand across uncharted worlds, from their surfaces to the stars. Forge your destiny in this sci-fi 4X offering a unique blend of grand strategy, planetary city-building, and RTS combat.
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Terra Invicta
Single-player alternative to Distant Worlds 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Distant Worlds 2.
An alien invasion has fractured humanity into seven ideological factions each with a unique vision for the future. Lead your chosen faction to take control of Earth’s nations, expand across the Solar System, and battle enemy fleets in tactical combat.
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Polaris Sector
Single-player alternative to Distant Worlds 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Distant Worlds 2.
Can anyone build an empire in a place like this? Other factions are naturally suspicious of newcomers and may wage war at the first sign of unidentified craft. Here, a natural death is an uncommon luxury.
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Galactic Ruler
Single-player alternative to Distant Worlds 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Distant Worlds 2.
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!
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The Last Federation
Single-player alternative to Distant Worlds 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Distant Worlds 2.
From the creators of AI War: Fleet Command comes an all-new grand strategy title with turn-based tactical combat, set in a deep simulation of an entire solar system and its billions of inhabitants. You are the last of a murdered race, determined to unify or destroy the 8 others.
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Stellaris
Single-player alternative to Distant Worlds 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Distant Worlds 2.
Explore a galaxy full of wonders in this sci-fi grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studios. Interact with diverse alien races, discover strange new worlds with unexpected events and expand the reach of your empire. Each new adventure holds almost limitless possibilities.
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Sins of a Solar Empire II
Single-player alternative to Distant Worlds 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Distant Worlds 2.
Battle for galactic dominance in this real-time 4X strategy game with unrivaled scale! You’ll explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate through military force, diplomacy, trade, culture, influence, and other underhanded tactics.
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Stars
Single-player alternative to Distant Worlds 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Distant Worlds 2.
《Stars》is a VR game about stars. you can completely relax, look up at the sky and listen to the story of each constellation.
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Aurora
Single-player alternative to Distant Worlds 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
This is a light puzzle game of pretty girls, so help the girls solve their problems! Then you can interact with the pretty girls.
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Ascendant
Single-player alternative to Distant Worlds 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Ascendant is the unforgiving beat 'em up in which you are a demigod invading a world controlled by your rivals. Choose your fate by discovering Blessings, equipping mighty weapons and spells, and learning to survive in this brutal realm. Only the most impressive warriors have a chance of victory.
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StarDrive 2
Single-player alternative to Distant Worlds 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Distant Worlds 2.
StarDrive 2 is an exciting and evolutionary step forward for the StarDrive franchise. In this eagerly anticipated sequel, the core mechanics have evolved to incorporate a turn-based strategic layer, featuring spectacular realtime battles.
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Galactic Civilizations IV
Single-player alternative to Distant Worlds 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Distant Worlds 2.
Take command of a civilization that has just achieved faster-than-light travel in Galactic Civilizations IV, the newest entry in the award-winning space 4X strategy game series. Explore the galaxy, colonize worlds, shape cultures, make alliances, fight wars and pioneer new technologies.