Single-player games like USC: Counterforce
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to USC: Counterforce, 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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Templar Battleforce
Single-player alternative to USC: Counterforce — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with USC: Counterforce.
An addictive mix of strategic combat and army building, with the precision of an RPG. Design your squad members' exact build of equipment and talents to create unique fireteam combinations. Step into the pilot suit of a Leviathan mech, lead the Templar Knights in turn-based tactical warfare.
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Every Day We Fight
Single-player alternative to USC: Counterforce — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG and Strategy with USC: Counterforce.
Turn-based tactics meets real-time choices. Control each moment of combat: react to enemy fire, aim your shots, and interrupt enemies on-the-fly. Transform a trio of ragtag civilians into seasoned soldiers - and escape the alien timeloop.
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Heroes of Science and Fiction
Single-player alternative to USC: Counterforce — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with USC: Counterforce.
A turn-based sci-fi strategy that combines exploration and exciting clashes on the battlefield. Take control over several different species, raise powerful armies for your heroes and destroy your opponents! This HoMM-like is set in a scifi universe, with new mechanics on top of the classic formula.
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Fort Triumph
Single-player alternative to USC: Counterforce — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with USC: Counterforce.
A strategy game combining the turn-based combat of XCOM with the world exploration of HOMM. Build towns, collect artifacts, improve your heroes, and influence your tactical surroundings using physics!
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Cyber Knights: Flashpoint
Single-player alternative to USC: Counterforce — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with USC: Counterforce.
Cyberpunk mercenaries RPG! Turn-based squad tactics with unique heist-planning strategy. Build your crew wisely; their stories will become interwoven with your own. Pull off heists with powerful cyberware, faction connections, multiclassing, weapon modding, stealth, hacking, and more!
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Bionic Dues
Single-player alternative to USC: Counterforce — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with USC: Counterforce.
Bionic Dues is a tactical, turn-based roguelite with mech customization. Out-think wide-ranging tactical situations featuring robots with bad GPS, terrible aim, insecurity, a lack of focus, a tendency to backstab, and dozens of other maladies to exploit.
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Breach & Clear
Single-player alternative to USC: Counterforce — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with USC: Counterforce.
Breach & Clear brings deep tactical strategy simulation to PC, Mac and Linux! Build your Special Operations team, plan and execute advanced missions, and own every angle.Choose your real-world squad -- US Army Rangers, Germany's KSK, Canada’s JTF2, UK SAS, and more -- and take on a variety of foes with different skill-sets and...
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XCOM® 2
Single-player alternative to USC: Counterforce — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with USC: Counterforce.
XCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 award-winning strategy game of the year. Earth has changed and is now under alien rule. Facing impossible odds you must rebuild XCOM, and ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity.
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Xenonauts
Single-player alternative to USC: Counterforce — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with USC: Counterforce.
Xenonauts is a strategy game in which you control a multi-national military organisation defending a Cold War-era Earth from alien invasion, using small squads of persistent soldiers to eliminate the extraterrestrials and recover their technology in turn-based ground combat.
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Phoenix Point
Single-player alternative to USC: Counterforce — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG and Strategy with USC: Counterforce.
The acclaimed strategy game from the creator of X-COM. Fight tactical battles on procedural maps against a foe that adapts to your tactics. Manage diplomacy and economy on a global scale. Research, explore, overcome. Now includes Steam Workshop support for mods!
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Ultimate Space Commando
Single-player alternative to USC: Counterforce — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with USC: Counterforce.
USC is a turn-based, top-down view tactics game in which you control the crew of a stranded recon vessel in a "first contact war" for survival, featuring a detailed combat system with RPG elements, fully interactive randomized maps, unique weapons and gadgets, crafting, and custom multiplayer modes.
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Into the Breach
Single-player alternative to USC: Counterforce — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with USC: Counterforce.
Control powerful mechs from the future to defeat an alien threat. Each attempt to save the world presents a new randomly generated challenge in this turn-based strategy game.
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Mimic Hunter
Single-player alternative to USC: Counterforce — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with USC: Counterforce.
Unsheathe your sword and your hardcore platforming skills to climb forsaken towers, fight nefarious Mimics, and solve unforgiving puzzles in an attempt to uncover the grim truth behind the nature of the Unbound and stop an ancient demonic force from devouring the mortal world. En garde!