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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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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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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ShipCrafter
Single-player alternative to SHIPS AT WAR — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with SHIPS AT WAR.
ShipCrafter is a naval sandbox simulation game. Build your ship, unlock new components and defeat increasingly powerful foes in the campaign !
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Rule the Waves 3
Single-player alternative to SHIPS AT WAR — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with SHIPS AT WAR.
Rule the Waves III is a simulation of naval ship design and construction, fleet management and naval warfare from 1890 to 1970.
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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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Battlestations: Midway
Single-player alternative to SHIPS AT WAR — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with SHIPS AT WAR.
Battlestations: Midway is an immense action game that drops players into massive air, sea, and undersea battles from Pearl Harbor to the Battle of Midway.
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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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Dangerous Waters
Single-player alternative to SHIPS AT WAR — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with SHIPS AT WAR.
S.C.S. - Dangerous Waters allows you total control over multiple air, surface, and submarine platforms in a modern-day naval environment. Take direct control of individual crew stations and also plan and execute combined arms naval strategies from a top-down 'Commanders Eye' perspective.
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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.