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Single-player games like Escape The Living Nebula

Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Escape The Living Nebula, 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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    FTL: Faster Than Light — Steam game cover

    FTL: Faster Than Light

    Single-player alternative to Escape The Living Nebula — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Escape The Living Nebula.

    This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.

    2012StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Flotilla — Steam game cover

    Flotilla

    Single-player alternative to Escape The Living Nebula — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Escape The Living Nebula.

    Lead your orbital battleships to victory in Flotilla! Fight, trade, and explore new planets in your journey through the galaxy. Featuring tactically rich 3D combat, flank and surprise the enemy from any direction. When the dust settles, generate another randomized universe for a brand new adventure!

    2010StrategyIndieAdventure9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Crowntakers — Steam game cover

    Crowntakers

    Single-player alternative to Escape The Living Nebula — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Escape The Living Nebula.

    Crowntakers combines turn-based strategy with RPG elements and takes you at the behest of the crown into a medieval fantasy world full of challenging encounters and epic adventures. With its randomly generated world, Crowntakers offers a varied gaming experience every time you set out to fight evil.

    2014StrategyIndieRPG9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Quasimorph — Steam game cover

    Quasimorph

    Single-player alternative to Escape The Living Nebula — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Escape The Living Nebula.

    Take on a role of a hardened PMC fighter in a dark turn-based cyberpunk RPG. Engage in unforgiving combat, manage your ship and pile up the bodies of your clones to unravel the dark mystery behind threat to all life.

    2023StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Into the Breach — Steam game cover

    Into the Breach

    Single-player alternative to Escape The Living Nebula — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Escape The Living Nebula.

    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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    Cobalt Core — Steam game cover

    Cobalt Core

    Single-player alternative to Escape The Living Nebula — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Escape The Living Nebula.

    A sci-fi roguelike deckbuilder with a deep new single-axis spin on tactics games! Dodge missiles, line up your cannons, and blast 'em out of the sky... Then get to the bottom of these time loops, before it's too late!

    2023StrategyIndie7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Invisible, Inc. — Steam game cover

    Invisible, Inc.

    Single-player alternative to Escape The Living Nebula — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Escape The Living Nebula.

    Take control of Invisible's agents in the field and infiltrate the world's most dangerous corporations. Stealth, precision, and teamwork are essential in high-stakes, high-profit missions, where every move may cost an agent their life.

    2015ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Last Spell — Steam game cover

    The Last Spell

    Single-player alternative to Escape The Living Nebula — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Escape The Living Nebula.

    Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.

    2023ActionStrategyIndie24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →