Single-player games like Homeworld 3
Below are 20 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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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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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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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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Battlefleet Gothic: Armada (Classic)
Single-player alternative to Homeworld 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Homeworld 3.
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada is the RTS videogame adaptation of Games Workshop’s classic tabletop game, pitting the Chaos, Imperium, Eldar, and Orks against each other in visceral space-battles.
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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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Total War: WARHAMMER III
Single-player alternative to Homeworld 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Homeworld 3.
The cataclysmic conclusion to the Total War: WARHAMMER trilogy is here. Rally your forces and step into the Realm of Chaos, a dimension of mind-bending horror where the very fate of the world will be decided. Will you conquer your Daemons… or command them?
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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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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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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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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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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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Shallow Space
Single-player alternative to Homeworld 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Homeworld 3.
Construct your Taskforce and lead your forces to domination in the ultimate Fleet Warfare RTS!
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Imperium Galactica II
Single-player alternative to Homeworld 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Homeworld 3.
Reintroducing a classic from the golden era of gaming, the original empire building space RTS, Imperium Galactica 2 is back and looking better than ever with new high-res textures and vivid colors.
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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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Project Eagle: A 3D Interactive Mars Base
Single-player alternative to Homeworld 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Homeworld 3.
An interactive art demo that showcases what a future base on Mars could look like. Project Eagle isn't a game - but an exploration of mankind's possible future.