Single-player games like FTL: Faster Than Light
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to FTL: Faster Than Light, 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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Corpoct
Single-player alternative to FTL: Faster Than Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with FTL: Faster Than Light.
Test your wits as well as your ability to lead an expedition in this deep space dungeon-crawler. Hire the best heroes and villains of the galaxy. Find unknown planets in uncharted space. Start small, plan big and get a fleet of warships capable enough to rival most fearsome enemies.
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Heat Signature
Single-player alternative to FTL: Faster Than Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with FTL: Faster Than Light.
Heat Signature is a game from the developers of Gunpoint where you break into spaceships, make terrible mistakes, and think of clever ways out of them. You take a mission, fly to the target ship, sneak inside, and make clever use of your gadgets to distract, ambush and take out the crew.
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Void War
Single-player alternative to FTL: Faster Than Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with FTL: Faster Than Light.
Command an ancient starship and fight your way to the heart of a dying Empire. Fend off attacks from demented cultists, craven space pirates, and xenophobic Imperial soldiers. Discover powerful artifacts and use them to build your ship into a fearsome war engine.
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Crying Suns
Single-player alternative to FTL: Faster Than Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with FTL: Faster Than Light.
Crying Suns is a tactical rogue-lite that puts you in the role of a space fleet commander as you explore a mysteriously fallen empire. In this story rich experience inspired by Dune and Foundation, each successful run will uncover the truth about the Empire... and yourself as well.
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Escape The Living Nebula
Single-player alternative to FTL: Faster Than Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with FTL: Faster Than Light.
Turn-based spaceship battles in a tense fight for survival
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Solar Rogue
Single-player alternative to FTL: Faster Than Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with FTL: Faster Than Light.
A space exploration adventure in the purest tradition of roguelike. Featuring procedurally generated solar systems, perma-death and tactical turned-based gameplay!
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Trigon: Space Story
Single-player alternative to FTL: Faster Than Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with FTL: Faster Than Light.
Trigon: Space Story sees you take command of your very own spaceship. Carry out tactical battles, defend your vessel against space pirates, and escape from enemy territory. On your voyages, you’ll face a slew of tricky decisions in your quest to uncover the mystery of the galaxy.
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Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes
Single-player alternative to FTL: Faster Than Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with FTL: Faster Than Light.
In Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes, take command of a fleet escaping the annihilation of the Twelve Colonies. Manage crises on board as you prepare for the next encounter with the Cylon Fleet. Times are dire, and hard choices must be made. Your only hope: rejoin the Battlestar Galactica.
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Dungeons of Dredmor
Single-player alternative to FTL: Faster Than Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with FTL: Faster Than Light.
Test your luck and cunning in this exciting RPG as you craft, cast, and pillage your way through Lord Dredmor's Dungeons.
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Slay the Spire
Single-player alternative to FTL: Faster Than Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with FTL: Faster Than Light.
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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Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space
Single-player alternative to FTL: Faster Than Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with FTL: Faster Than Light.
Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space is a hybrid roguelike game of space exploration, adventure and starship combat.
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Prison Architect
Single-player alternative to FTL: Faster Than Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with FTL: Faster Than Light.
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
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Dwarf Fortress
Single-player alternative to FTL: Faster Than Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with FTL: Faster Than Light.
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
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Star Command (1988)
Single-player alternative to FTL: Faster Than Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
STAR COMMAND offers the thrill of the best sci-fi novels, and then some. In this epic multiple-character role-playing game, you don't just read about the adventure — you live it!
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Titanfall - The Final Hours
Single-player alternative to FTL: Faster Than Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Written over the past four years, journalist Geoff Keighley ("The Final Hours of Portal 2") chronicles the making of TITANFALL from Respawn Entertainment. This longform app features never-before-seen photos, video and concept art from early development versions of the game.
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Into the Breach
Single-player alternative to FTL: Faster Than Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with FTL: Faster Than Light.
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.