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Single-player games like Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack

Below are 21 single-player Steam games similar to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack, 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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    Plane Starship2:Galactic Contender — Steam game cover

    Plane Starship2:Galactic Contender

    Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack.

    This is a 4x turn-base strategy game. You can develop your planet, expand your territory by colonizing and building space stations, research technology to unlock more ships, and ultimately discover and eliminate your enemies.

    2024Strategy5.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Mayhem Intergalactic — Steam game cover

    Mayhem Intergalactic

    Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack.

    Wage war on your friends and enemies in this simple and engaging strategy game. Easy to learn and quick to play, Mayhem Intergalactic is surprisingly strategic. Play against the computer, or duke it out with friends over the internet. The universe shall be yours!

    2009StrategyIndie9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Sins of a Solar Empire®: Rebellion — Steam game cover

    Sins of a Solar Empire®: Rebellion

    Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack.

    Command a space-faring empire in Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion, the new stand-alone expansion that combines 4X depth with real-time strategy gameplay.

    2012ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War — Steam game cover

    Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War

    Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack.

    Warhammer 40,000: Gladius – Relics of War brings you to a world of terror and violence. Four factions will engage in a brutal war for dominance over the planet’s resources. In the first turn-based 4X strategy game set in Warhammer 40,000 you will lead one of four unique factions.

    2018Strategy39.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity® — Steam game cover

    Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity®

    Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack.

    In Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity, you are the leader of a civilization embroiled in a galactic war, fighting for the survival of your entire race against relentless foes.

    2011StrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™ — Steam game cover

    Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™

    Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack.

    Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth is a new science-fiction-themed entry into the award winning Civilization series. As part of an expedition sent to find a home beyond Earth, lead your people into a new frontier, explore and colonize an alien planet and create a new civilization in space.

    2014Strategy9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI — Steam game cover

    Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI

    Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack.

    Expand your empire, advance your culture and go head-to-head against history’s greatest leaders. Will your civilization stand the test of time?

    2016Strategy5.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    ENDLESS™ Space 2 — Steam game cover

    ENDLESS™ Space 2

    Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack.

    ENDLESS™ Space 2 is a Strategic Space Opera, featuring the compelling “just one more turn” gameplay, set in the mysterious ENDLESS™ Universe. As the leader of your civilization, will you impose your vision and build the greatest stellar empire?

    2017Strategy39.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition — Steam game cover

    Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition

    Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    The year is 2052 and the world is a dangerous and chaotic place. Terrorists operate openly - killing thousands; drugs, disease and pollution kill even more. The world's economies are close to collapse and the gap between the insanely wealthy and the desperately poor grows ever wider.

    2007Action6.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Stellaris — Steam game cover

    Stellaris

    Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack.

    Explore a galaxy full of wonders in this sci-fi grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studios. Interact with diverse alien races, discover strange new worlds with unexpected events and expand the reach of your empire. Each new adventure holds almost limitless possibilities.

    2016StrategySimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    RollerCoaster Tycoon World™ — Steam game cover

    RollerCoaster Tycoon World™

    Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack.

    RollerCoaster Tycoon World™ is the newest installment in the legendary RCT franchise. This next-generation theme park simulation and building game includes fan-favorite features along with incredible new advancements!

    2016StrategySimulation14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    SC2VN - The eSports Visual Novel — Steam game cover

    SC2VN - The eSports Visual Novel

    Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    SC2VN is a visual novel about the South Korean StarCraft 2 scene. You play as Mach, a foreign semi-pro trying to make it in eSports who soon learns that success in StarCraft takes more than in-game strategy.

    2015IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Idle Civilization — Steam game cover

    Idle Civilization

    Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack.

    Take command of a pair of villagers and help them build a mighty civilization that will spread across the world and conquer it. Idle Civilization is a civilization builder management game where you will oversee the growth of your people into a mighty kingdom through building, research, warfare, religion, diplomacy, culture, heroic...

    2015StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    守卫魔兽-Guardian of Warcraft — Steam game cover

    守卫魔兽-Guardian of Warcraft

    Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack.

    This is a summoning tower defense strategy game, with different abilities of monsters and traps, with different effects. the player will continue to upgrade while defending, Become stronger, and summoning more powerful monsters to resist the brave.

    2021ActionStrategyIndie0.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Tiny Civilization — Steam game cover

    Tiny Civilization

    Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack.

    This is a historical simulation game that promotes the development of civilization based on the match-3 Game. You'll need to gather resources, use skills, discover new technology, and lead humanbeing through a 10,000-year journey to the cosmos.

    2022Strategy1.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Sid Meier's Civilization® V — Steam game cover

    Sid Meier's Civilization® V

    Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack.

    Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!

    2010Strategy7.49 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    XCOM® 2 — Steam game cover

    XCOM® 2

    Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack.

    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.

    2016Strategy2.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Sid Meier's Civilization VII — Steam game cover

    Sid Meier's Civilization VII

    Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack.

    The award-winning strategy game franchise returns with a revolutionary new chapter. Sid Meier's Civilization® VII empowers you to build the greatest empire the world has ever known!

    2025StrategySimulation69.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    XCOM: Enemy Unknown — Steam game cover

    XCOM: Enemy Unknown

    Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack.

    The XCOM: Enemy Unknown - Slingshot Pack is Now Available!

    2012Strategy5.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    XCOM®: Chimera Squad — Steam game cover

    XCOM®: Chimera Squad

    Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack.

    XCOM: Chimera Squad delivers an all-new story and turn-based tactical combat experience in the XCOM universe.

    2020Strategy2.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Marvel's Midnight Suns — Steam game cover

    Marvel's Midnight Suns

    Single-player alternative to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack.

    FIGHT AND STRATEGIZE LIKE A SUPER HERO IN THE DARKER CORNERS OF THE MARVEL UNIVERSE. Play as The Hunter, a legendary demon slayer who must lead a team of Super Heroes and supernatural warriors facing apocalyptic threats.

    2022StrategyRPG8.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →