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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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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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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Breakout 13
Single-player alternative to Distant Sun — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Distant Sun.
Breakout 13 is a thrilling narrative game with interactive cinematic experience. Based on true stories. Embark on a revealing journey as you attempt to break free from a negligent correctional institute and carve out your own path to justice. Each decision you make shapes the story.
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ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos
Single-player alternative to Distant Sun — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A sci-fi adventure full of robot battles, pop music, and emotion. Featuring one of the largest branching storylines ever in a VR game with 15-20 hours of gameplay, Altdeus will place you in the shoes of Chloe, a pilot in humanity's forces fighting massive hostile organisms known as the Meteora.
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Roadwarden
Single-player alternative to Distant Sun — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Distant Sun.
Roadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG that uses isometric pixel art and combines mechanics borrowed from RPGs, Visual Novels, adventure games and interactive fiction.