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Single-player games like Mars Tactics

Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Mars Tactics, 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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    Mewgenics — Steam game cover

    Mewgenics

    Single-player alternative to Mars Tactics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mars Tactics.

    Build the ultimate cat army through tactical breeding and send them into deep, challenging turn-based adventures. Draft abilities, collect items, and manipulate genetics across generations in this roguelike tactics game from the creators of The Binding of Isaac and The End is Nigh.

    2026StrategyIndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Pathbreakers: Roaming Blades — Steam game cover

    Pathbreakers: Roaming Blades

    Single-player alternative to Mars Tactics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Mars Tactics.

    Pathbreakers: Roaming Blades is a turn-based tactical RPG where you lead a company of mercenaries in a medieval fantasy world. Try your hand at mercenary work, trading, or exploring, and keep your crew well stocked for brutal combat in a procedurally-generated open-world campaign.

    2026StrategyAdventureRPGSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden — Steam game cover

    Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden

    Single-player alternative to Mars Tactics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Mars Tactics.

    A tactical game combining the turn-based combat of XCOM with story, exploration, stealth, and strategy. Take control of a team of Mutants navigating a post-human Earth. Created by a team including former HITMAN leads and the designer of PAYDAY.

    2018StrategyRPG34.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    XCOM® 2 — Steam game cover

    XCOM® 2

    Single-player alternative to Mars Tactics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Mars Tactics.

    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.

    2016Strategy2.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Into the Breach — Steam game cover

    Into the Breach

    Single-player alternative to Mars Tactics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mars Tactics.

    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.

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Battle Brothers — Steam game cover

    Battle Brothers

    Single-player alternative to Mars Tactics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mars Tactics.

    Lead a mercenary company in this tactical RPG set in a medieval fantasy world. Chase fame and fortune as you choose where to go, who to recruit, which contracts to pursue, and how to train and equip your men in a procedurally generated open world campaign.

    2017StrategySimulationRPG29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Hard West — Steam game cover

    Hard West

    Single-player alternative to Mars Tactics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Mars Tactics.

    When a tragic turn of events sets one man down a path of supernatural chaos and revenge, he must brutally hunt down all those who wronged him. Fight and survive through 8 unique story-based scenarios, and try your hand at 40 individually designed turn-based combat missions

    2015StrategyIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Gears Tactics — Steam game cover

    Gears Tactics

    Single-player alternative to Mars Tactics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Mars Tactics.

    Gears Tactics is the fast-paced, turn-based strategy game from one of the most-acclaimed video game franchises – Gears of War. Outnumbered and fighting for survival, recruit and command your squad to hunt down an evil mastermind who makes monsters.

    2020Strategy29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →