Single-player games like Distant Sun
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Distant Sun, 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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WTP Story 1
Single-player alternative to Distant Sun — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Distant Sun.
WTP - Story 1 is a dynamic choice lead adventure.
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Escape Condition
Single-player alternative to Distant Sun — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Distant Sun.
ESCAPE CONDITION is the first FPS that lets you choose how to prepare your city for the catastrophic arrival of AI Superintelligence (EVA). Will you fight EVA alone with AI-powered Cybernetics, or empower the citizens around you to help in the fight?
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The Outer Worlds
Single-player alternative to Distant Sun — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Distant Sun.
The Outer Worlds is an award-winning single-player RPG from Obsidian Entertainment and Private Division. As you explore a space colony, the character you decide to become will determine how this player-driven story unfolds. In the colony's corporate equation, you are the unplanned variable.
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Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog
Single-player alternative to Distant Sun — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Distant Sun.
Survive the mystery that awaits the JFS Gun-Dog in deep space in this retro visual novel / graphic adventure.
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Siege of Treboulain
Single-player alternative to Distant Sun — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Distant Sun.
Defend your magical city from an enemy army in an epic fantasy game of swordfights, political maneuvering, and romance! Will you prove worthy of your crown?
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Athenian Rhapsody
Single-player alternative to Distant Sun — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Distant Sun.
Forge your own story and explore the world of Athens in Athenian Rhapsody, a souls-like platonic dating simulator with cooking-mama and WarioWare style battle mechanics... and by that I mean it's a choose-your-own-adventure action RPG with the ability to trade ENTIRE PLAYTHROUGHS between friends!!
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I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
Single-player alternative to Distant Sun — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Distant Sun.
Spend your teenage years on an alien planet in this narrative RPG with card-based battles. Explore, grow up, and fall in love. The choices you make and skills you master over ten years will determine the course of your life and the survival of your colony.
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Werewolf: The Apocalypse — The Book of Hungry Names
Single-player alternative to Distant Sun — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Distant Sun.
Save the living earth with Rage and spirit! Can your shattered werewolf pack defeat a Wyrm Spirit that manifests as a lie that you want to believe?