Single-player games like SHAFTED
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to SHAFTED, 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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Endhall
Single-player alternative to SHAFTED — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with SHAFTED.
Endhall is a byte-sized roguelike. Become an artificial intelligence and combine tactical actions to defeat your enemies and reach the end of the hallway.
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XCOM® 2
Single-player alternative to SHAFTED — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with SHAFTED.
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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Skyward Collapse
Single-player alternative to SHAFTED — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with SHAFTED.
How do you balance -- and indeed encourage -- a war between factions without letting either side obliterate the other? How do you rule over gods, creatures, and men who refuse to obey you? How do you build a landscape of villages when bandits and mythology are conspiring to tear it down?
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Into the Breach
Single-player alternative to SHAFTED — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with SHAFTED.
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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Xenonauts
Single-player alternative to SHAFTED — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with SHAFTED.
Xenonauts is a strategy game in which you control a multi-national military organisation defending a Cold War-era Earth from alien invasion, using small squads of persistent soldiers to eliminate the extraterrestrials and recover their technology in turn-based ground combat.
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Cobalt Core
Single-player alternative to SHAFTED — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with SHAFTED.
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!
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Gears Tactics
Single-player alternative to SHAFTED — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with SHAFTED.
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.
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Immortal Realms: Vampire Wars
Single-player alternative to SHAFTED — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with SHAFTED.
Immortal Realms: Vampire Wars is an engaging strategy game set in a dark vampire world in turmoil, that combines empire management and turn-based combat with unique card-game elements.