Single-player games like Deadnaut: Signal Lost
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Deadnaut: Signal Lost, 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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Rogue Fable IV
Single-player alternative to Deadnaut: Signal Lost — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deadnaut: Signal Lost.
Storm the lair of the immortal wizard Yendor in this fast paced, turn based, traditional rogue-like. The massive scope, deep mechanics and challenging gameplay that define the genre distilled into dense and highly varied one hour runs.
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Approaching Infinity
Single-player alternative to Deadnaut: Signal Lost — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deadnaut: Signal Lost.
Approaching Infinity is a turn-based space RPG in the spirit of the sci-fi classics, with endless progression and exploration. Fight tactical battles or use diplomacy. Seek powerful artifacts. Quest, mine, trade, and craft. Level up forever or attempt 10 victories in hardcore or adventure mode.
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Templar Battleforce
Single-player alternative to Deadnaut: Signal Lost — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deadnaut: Signal Lost.
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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Inkbound
Single-player alternative to Deadnaut: Signal Lost — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deadnaut: Signal Lost.
A turn-based tactical roguelike from the creators of Monster Train. Play solo or co-op, create powerful builds, and save the Atheneum.
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Sword of the Stars: The Pit
Single-player alternative to Deadnaut: Signal Lost — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deadnaut: Signal Lost.
A fun, fast, light-hearted, turn-based RPG, where the tradition of old school dungeon-diving games meets the sci-fi Sword of the Stars universe!
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Caves of Qud
Single-player alternative to Deadnaut: Signal Lost — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deadnaut: Signal Lost.
Inhabit a deeply-simulated science fantasy world and chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations. Build a character from over a hundred mutations and cybernetics. The award-winning sandbox roguelike & RPG full of robots, deep lore, and sentient plants.
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Nova-111
Single-player alternative to Deadnaut: Signal Lost — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deadnaut: Signal Lost.
Pilot your trusty orange vessel in this quirky sci-fi strategy game that cleverly mixes turn-based and real-time gameplay. Your mission: fix space-time and recover all the scientists lost in the aftermath of the Universe's Greatest Science Experiment.
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Trials of Fire
Single-player alternative to Deadnaut: Signal Lost — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deadnaut: Signal Lost.
A Tactical, Deck-Building Roguelite. Choose 3 Heroes and adventure into a post-Cataclysmic wasteland. Engage enemies in a unique meld of card-play and tactical, positional combat. Level up and scavenge what you can to customise your decks and build a party to take on any challenge!
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Slay the Spire
Single-player alternative to Deadnaut: Signal Lost — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deadnaut: Signal Lost.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
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Duskers
Single-player alternative to Deadnaut: Signal Lost — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deadnaut: Signal Lost.
Pilot drones into derelict spaceships to find the means to survive and piece together how the universe became a giant graveyard.
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Zafehouse: Diaries
Single-player alternative to Deadnaut: Signal Lost — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deadnaut: Signal Lost.
Stuck in a remote, abandoned town, you must lead five survivors with conflicting motivations, fragile relationships and fiery prejudices to safety from the roving undead. A sophisticated engine generates new survivors, towns and content so every adventure is a different experience, and you can use built-in editors to add yourself and...
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Zafehouse Diaries 2
Single-player alternative to Deadnaut: Signal Lost — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deadnaut: Signal Lost.
Zafehouse Diaries 2 is a game of survival, exploration and relationships. Every hour, designate tasks for your handful of characters - each with their own skills, motivations and prejudices - and try to outlast the zombie apocalypse.
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Deadnaut
Single-player alternative to Deadnaut: Signal Lost — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deadnaut: Signal Lost.
Deadnaut is Screwfly Studios' second game and follow up to cult hit, Zafehouse: Diaries. Deadnauts, so named because they’re unlikely to return, must explore, investigate and fight their way through the derelict ships of dead civilisations. Every mission is unique and no two locations are the same.
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Fear Equation
Single-player alternative to Deadnaut: Signal Lost — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deadnaut: Signal Lost.
Fear Equation is a turn-based horror strategy game where you play the engineer of a modified freight train, built to protect its occupants from a deadly fog that brings their nightmares to life. Survival depends on analysing passengers' dreams, crafting defenses, upgrading, scavenging and resource management.