Single-player games like SHIPS AT WAR
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to SHIPS AT WAR, 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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Morse Depths: WWII
Single-player alternative to SHIPS AT WAR — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with SHIPS AT WAR.
Take command of a WWII submarine. Master Morse Code to fire torpedoes, defuse mines, and survive the final siege. From 1942 to 1945, every dot and dash is the difference between glory and the ocean floor.
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NavalArt
Single-player alternative to SHIPS AT WAR — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with SHIPS AT WAR.
Design your own warships, equip them with a variety of armament, and bring them out to the ocean!
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Silent Depth 2: Pacific
Single-player alternative to SHIPS AT WAR — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with SHIPS AT WAR.
Silent Depth 2: Pacific is a lite sub-sim. You enter the Silent Service at the command of a Gato class submarine on War Patrols during World War 2. How long will you survive, and ultimately how much tonnage you sink is down to skill and cunning.
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Boat Crew
Single-player alternative to SHIPS AT WAR — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with SHIPS AT WAR.
Command your crew in Boat Crew, a gripping action-strategy experience amidst the Pacific War. Take charge of a PT boat against Imperial Japan, skillfully managing resources and personnel by any means necessary to ensure victory in this high-stakes conflict.
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Sub Command
Single-player alternative to SHIPS AT WAR — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with SHIPS AT WAR.
Take charge of the most deadly modern-day submarines in the world - three distinct submarines across two unique and challenging campaigns. Utilize cutting-edge sensor and weapon technology to locate, track and destroy the enemy - even deliver Tomahawk missiles to inland targets.
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Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts
Single-player alternative to SHIPS AT WAR — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with SHIPS AT WAR.
Design warships the way you want them, command fleets, win the naval arms race for your nation!
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Crash Dive
Single-player alternative to SHIPS AT WAR — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with SHIPS AT WAR.
WWII tactical submarine combat! Take command of a U-boat prowling the Atlantic in search of enemy convoys to sink. Sneak past the escorts and torpedo the transports. Or surface and use your deck gun in a daring night attack.
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UBOAT
Single-player alternative to SHIPS AT WAR — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with SHIPS AT WAR.
UBOAT is a simulator of a submarine from WWII era. It is a survival sandbox with crew management mechanics while its primary theme is life of German sailors. The boat is their home, but it can become their grave at any time.
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Sinking Simulator
Single-player alternative to SHIPS AT WAR — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with SHIPS AT WAR.
The sequel to the unfinished Sinking Simulator, now with a lot more POWER!!!! Witness your witty love of chaos and destruction sinking 2D ships and everything else on board!
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From the Depths
Single-player alternative to SHIPS AT WAR — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with SHIPS AT WAR.
Over 1000 unique components allow you to build and command voxel vehicles from the deep ocean to outer space! Forge strategies, allegiances and fleets strong enough to destroy eight deadly factions of the planet and reign supreme. A genre-defying mashup of simulation, building, RTS and RPG.
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Ultimate Admiral: Age of Sail
Single-player alternative to SHIPS AT WAR — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with SHIPS AT WAR.
Ultimate Admiral: Age of Sail is a tactical wargame from the creators of the Ultimate General series set amidst the epic naval campaigns in the period of the American Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.