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
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.