Single-player games like Homeworld 3
Below are 22 single-player Steam games similar to Homeworld 3, 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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Sins of a Solar Empire II
Single-player alternative to Homeworld 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Homeworld 3.
Battle for galactic dominance in this real-time 4X strategy game with unrivaled scale! You’ll explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate through military force, diplomacy, trade, culture, influence, and other underhanded tactics.
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Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Homeworld 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Homeworld 3.
42 Civilizations, 229 Campaign Missions, Singleplayer, Co-Op, Multiplayer, In-Game Editor, Mods, Cross-play...It is good to be the king.
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Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak
Single-player alternative to Homeworld 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Homeworld 3.
A ground-based RTS prequel to the classic Homeworld games. Assemble your fleet and lead them to victory on the shifting sands of Kharak in this compelling strategy game for PC from Blackbird Interactive.
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TFC2: Collapse of The Bronze Age
Single-player alternative to Homeworld 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Homeworld 3.
Lead your small caravan on a great journey across the ancient world, in a story-driven RTS where protecting your family and friends matters more than conquest.
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AI War 2
Single-player alternative to Homeworld 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Homeworld 3.
The most devious and acclaimed artificial intelligence in strategy gaming is better than ever. A grand strategy/RTS hybrid that reverses many conventions of both genres. Take territory without attracting attention, build your empire with care, and adapt to an ever-evolving galactic battleground.
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Homeworld Remastered Collection
Single-player alternative to Homeworld 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Homeworld 3.
Experience the epic space strategy games that redefined the RTS genre. Control your fleet and build an armada across more than 30 single-player missions. Choose unit types, fleet formations and flight tactics for each strategic situation.
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Wargame: Airland Battle
Single-player alternative to Homeworld 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Homeworld 3.
2 SIDES, 12 NATIONS, 750 UNITS: THE STRATEGY GAME REFERENCE IS BACK! Richer, more beautiful and more accessible, Wargame AirLand Battle is the sequel to the explosive real-time strategy game Wargame European Escalation! 1985.
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Arvoch Alliance SE
Single-player alternative to Homeworld 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Homeworld 3.
Advanced First Person Space Flight Combat Simulation.
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NEBULOUS: Fleet Command
Single-player alternative to Homeworld 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Homeworld 3.
Take command of your hand-tailored fleet of space warships and use realistic radar, electronic warfare, advanced movement controls in 3D space, and precision targeting to outmaneuver and outwit your opponents in a simulation-heavy tactical space game like no other.
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SC2VN - The eSports Visual Novel
Single-player alternative to Homeworld 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Homeworld 3.
SC2VN is a visual novel about the South Korean StarCraft 2 scene. You play as Mach, a foreign semi-pro trying to make it in eSports who soon learns that success in StarCraft takes more than in-game strategy.
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ERA ONE
Single-player alternative to Homeworld 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Homeworld 3.
Era One is an innovative space game that combines elements of real-time strategy, base building, space survival, and tactical battles. Players can create and customize their bases from scratch, construct various types of structures and warships, manage fleets, and engage in tactical space battles.
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Star Wolves
Single-player alternative to Homeworld 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Homeworld 3.
Star wolves is a 3D space RPG with deep strategy and tactical elements. The game thrusts players into a world of freelance space hunters in the XXI-XXII century A.D. during a time of political crisis for the all-powerful Empire and the three mega-corporations that control all the known worlds.
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Nexus - The Jupiter Incident
Single-player alternative to Homeworld 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Homeworld 3.
Ambitious megacorporations monopolize the conquest of space and the colonization of the solar system. At the very edge of the solar system, the companies make a discovery that will shift the technological advantage and upset the balance. And so a new conflict is born: "The Jupiter Incident."
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Falling Frontier
Single-player alternative to Homeworld 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Homeworld 3.
Conquer a vast procedurally generated star system in Falling Frontier, a sci-fi RTS where intel and logistics are decisive factors. Design ships and raid enemy supply lines, lay minefields and construct recon stations, and ambush enemy forces within asteroid fields and nebulae.
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Ace of Space
Single-player alternative to Homeworld 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
You and your spaceship versus thousands of aliens! Blast through waves of aliens with upgradable spaceships in this sci-fi shoot ’em up game and become the Ace of Space!
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Escape the Backrooms
Single-player alternative to Homeworld 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Escape the Backrooms is a 1-4 player co-op horror exploration game. Traverse 30+ eerie backrooms levels while avoiding entities and other dangers. Try to escape but be warned: survival isn't guaranteed.
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Hardspace: Shipbreaker
Single-player alternative to Homeworld 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Homeworld 3.
Equipped with cutting-edge salvaging tech, carve & slice spaceships to recover valuable materials. Upgrade your gear to take on more lucrative contracts and pay your billion credits debt to LYNX Corp!
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Minecraft Legends
Single-player alternative to Homeworld 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Homeworld 3.
Discover the mysteries of Minecraft Legends, a new action strategy game. Explore a gentle land of rich resources and lush biomes on the brink of destruction. The ravaging piglins have arrived, and it’s up to you to inspire your allies and lead them in strategic battles to save the Overworld!
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Crossfire: Legion
Single-player alternative to Homeworld 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Homeworld 3.
Crossfire: Legion is a real time strategy game featuring tactical action in furious battles across a shattered version of the near future. Raise and customize your army to engage in intense online combat and carve your own path as you rise through the ranks. It’s a new generation of warfare.
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Ambrosia Sky: Act One
Single-player alternative to Homeworld 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Homeworld 3.
You left. Now they’re dead. Ambrosia Sky: Act One is an immersive sim about exploring an asteroid colony devastated by an unknown contamination. Survive and harvest strains of hostile alien fungi, explore treacherous environments, and find meaning and beauty in so much death—the first of two acts.
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Earthless
Single-player alternative to Homeworld 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Homeworld 3.
EARTHLESS is a sci-fi, roguelike deckbuilder where humankind has been thrust into the cosmic wind on a fleet of starships captained by you. To find a new home, you must draw your own path through the stars and play the hand you’re dealt. You are our hope in the darkness.
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Company of Heroes - Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Homeworld 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Homeworld 3.
Company of Heroes – Definitive Edition, features the original Company of Heroes along with the Opposing Fronts and Tales of Valor Expansions, enhanced visuals, quality-of-life gameplay improvements, and 64-bit platform support.