Single-player games like Sprocket
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Sprocket, 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 Sprocket — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sprocket.
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 Sprocket — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sprocket.
Design your own warships, equip them with a variety of armament, and bring them out to the ocean!
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Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game
Single-player alternative to Sprocket — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Developed by a team of experienced modders from the Paradox forum, Darkest Hour is a stand-alone Hearts of Iron game. The game features a mixture of short and in-depth campaigns set across the darkest chapters of the 20th century. Play from the outbreak of the Great War up until the onset of the Cold War.
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Thunder Training Ground
Single-player alternative to Sprocket — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Sprocket.
You can freely define parameters such as aircraft performance and weapon performance to simulate all air combat scenarios. Additionally, the unique one-click scene reset function of this Training Ground enables you to complete up to 10 training sessions even within a brief one-minute timeframe.
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City Defence Artillery
Single-player alternative to Sprocket — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Sprocket.
City defence artillery, the war has begun. Defend cities, upgrade artillery and call in air defense systems.
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Cannon Clicker
Single-player alternative to Sprocket — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Sprocket.
Build your army from nothing to military supremacy! Cannon Clicker blends addictive idle clicker action with real strategy in a WWII setting. Expand your skill tree, juggle three currencies, and command infantry, tanks and aircraft. Crush the enemy base and dominate every battlefield!
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Bishojo Battlefield
Single-player alternative to Sprocket — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Sprocket.
A funny shooting game where you can customize the gameplay, such as zombies holding submachine guns and shooting aliens, or wolf dogs holding samurai swords and fighting special forces in close combat... How unexpected the settings will be depends on your imagination.
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Armored Front: Tiger Command
Single-player alternative to Sprocket — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Sprocket.
Immerse yourself in a fully interactive VR Tiger Tank game and lead your way across the treacherous deserts of North Africa in a Legendary Tank of World War 2.
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Stormworks: Build and Rescue
Single-player alternative to Sprocket — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Sprocket.
Join a world where you design, create and pilot your own air sea rescue service. Release your inner hero as you battle fierce storms out at sea to rescue those in need.
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SimplePlanes
Single-player alternative to Sprocket — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sprocket.
Build airplanes by snapping parts together, designing wing sections, and attaching engines. At any time, you can strap yourself into the cockpit and see how it flies with realistic physics. If you're not in the mood for building, over 100,000 airplanes are available to download for free.
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Flyout
Single-player alternative to Sprocket — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sprocket.
Build and fly realistic aircraft. Use free-form fuselage and wing editor tools and tune your engines to recreate aircraft from any era or design your own.
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Kerbal Space Program
Single-player alternative to Sprocket — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sprocket.
In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
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From the Depths
Single-player alternative to Sprocket — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Sprocket.
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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Arms Trade Tycoon: Tanks
Single-player alternative to Sprocket — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sprocket.
Arms Trade Tycoon: Tanks is a unique combination of tank design and tycoon game. It puts you in charge of an arms trading company specialized in tanks from WWI to the modern era. Research, design, sell and follow your tanks in battle to make your own history!