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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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.
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Shortest Trip to Earth
Single-player alternative to FTL: Faster Than Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with FTL: Faster Than Light.
Shortest Trip to Earth is a roguelike spaceship simulator focused on exploration, ship management and tactical battles. Embark on a perilous journey across the universe with nuclear missiles, armed crew and a cat.
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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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Invisible, Inc.
Single-player alternative to FTL: Faster Than Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with FTL: Faster Than Light.
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.
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Dungeon of the ENDLESS™
Single-player alternative to FTL: Faster Than Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with FTL: Faster Than Light.
Dungeon of the ENDLESS™ is a Rogue-Like Dungeon-Defense game, in which the player and their team of heroes must protect the generator of their crashed ship while exploring an ever-expanding dungeon, all while facing waves of monsters and special events as they try to find their way out...
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Duskers
Single-player alternative to FTL: Faster Than Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with FTL: Faster Than Light.
Pilot drones into derelict spaceships to find the means to survive and piece together how the universe became a giant graveyard.
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Void Bastards
Single-player alternative to FTL: Faster Than Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with FTL: Faster Than Light.
Inspired by BioShock and System Shock 2, Void Bastards is a revolutionary new strategy-shooter that will test your wits as well as exercise your aim. Can you lead the misfit prisoners of the Void Ark through the derelict spaceships and myriad dangers of the Sargasso Nebula?
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Approaching Infinity
Single-player alternative to FTL: Faster Than Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with FTL: Faster Than Light.
Approaching Infinity is a turn-based space RPG in the spirit of the sci-fi classics, with endless progression and exploration. Fight tactical battles or use diplomacy. Seek powerful artifacts. Quest, mine, trade, and craft. Level up forever or attempt 10 victories in hardcore or adventure mode.
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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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Frozen Synapse
Single-player alternative to FTL: Faster Than Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with FTL: Faster Than Light.
Brings the simultaneous turn-based strategy genre up-to-date and lets you give detailed, accurate orders to your squad.
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Tower of Guns
Single-player alternative to FTL: Faster Than Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with FTL: Faster Than Light.
Tower of Guns is a fast paced first-person-shooter for the twitch gamer... with a few randomized elements to keep it fresh with each playthrough. It's a short burst "Lunch Break FPS"... not unlike Binding of Isaac mixed with Doom 2. Tower of Guns was made by a guy named Joe (with his brother Mike composing the music).
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Ziggurat
Single-player alternative to FTL: Faster Than Light — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with FTL: Faster Than Light.
Dungeon-Crawling First Person Shooting at its finest! Fast-paced combat! Dozens of perks, spells and enemies! Level ups! Random Dungeons! Traps! Badass bosses! Carrots!