Single-player games like Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War!
Below are 18 single-player Steam games similar to Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War!, 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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Darkenstein 3D
Single-player alternative to Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War!.
A retro shooter inspired by classics like Wolfenstein and Doom. Think of it as a tribute, a love letter to the games that defined a generation, with a few modern touches of my own. It’s tough, fast, and demands skill, just the way those old-school shooters did.
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Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour
Single-player alternative to Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War!.
Frag like it’s 1996 – this time with even more asses to kick! Join the world’s greatest action hero in Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour as he saves Earth once again, kicking alien ass and saving babes across the globe along the way.
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Call of Duty®: Advanced Warfare - Gold Edition
Single-player alternative to Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War!.
Call of Duty®: Advanced Warfare envisions a powerful future, where both technology and tactics have evolved to usher in a new era of combat for the franchise.Power Changes Everything.
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Half-Life: Opposing Force
Single-player alternative to Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War!.
Return to the Black Mesa Research Facility as one of the military specialists assigned to eliminate Gordon Freeman. Experience an entirely new episode of single player action. Meet fierce alien opponents, and experiment with new weaponry. Named 'Game of the Year' by the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences.
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Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion Remastered
Single-player alternative to Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War!.
Finish the hunt in this epic finale to the Turok Trilogy. Pick up immediately after the events of Turok 2: Seeds of Evil, with dual protagonists Joseph and Danielle Fireseed, of the Turok family tree, as they battle the titular antagonist Oblivion and its followers, the Flesh Eaters.
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Call of Duty®: Ghosts
Single-player alternative to Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War!.
Outnumbered and outgunned, but not outmatched.Call of Duty®: Ghosts is an extraordinary step forward for one of the largest entertainment franchises of all-time. This new chapter in the Call of Duty® franchise features a new dynamic where players are on the side of a crippled nation fighting not for freedom, or liberty, but simply to...
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Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun
Single-player alternative to Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War!.
Load up your Boltgun and unleash the awesome Space Marine arsenal to blast your way through an explosion of sprites, pixels and blood in a perfect blend of Warhammer 40,000, frenetic gameplay and the stylish visuals of 90’s retro shooters.
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Alien: Rogue Incursion Evolved Edition
Single-player alternative to Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War!.
A new action-horror story set in the iconic Alien universe. Play as rogue Colonial Marine Zula Hendricks, sent to investigate a blacksite on Purdan. Fight and survive using your skill, reflexes, and determination against a deadly Xenomorph incursion in this gripping first chapter of a two-part saga.
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Quake
Single-player alternative to Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War!.
Developed by the award-winning id Software, Quake® is the ground-breaking, original dark fantasy first-person shooter that inspires today’s retro-style FPS games. With Quake (Enhanced), experience the authentic, updated, and visually enhanced version of the original.
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Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition
Single-player alternative to Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War!.
Unreal Tournament is the original King of the Hill in the frag-or-be-fragged multiplayer gaming world. As the undisputed 1999 Game of the Year, Unreal Tournament grabbed the first person shooter genre by the soiled seat of its pants and knocked it around the room with its never-before-seen graphics, brutal edge-of-your-seat gameplay and...
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DOOM
Single-player alternative to Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War!.
Now includes all three premium DLC packs (Unto the Evil, Hell Followed, and Bloodfall), maps, modes, and weapons, as well as all feature updates including Arcade Mode, Photo Mode, and the latest Update 6.66, which brings further multiplayer improvements as well as revamps multiplayer progression.
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Mars Horizon
Single-player alternative to Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War!.
Lead a major space agency as you guide humanity to Mars in this strategy simulation game. Construct a base, design and build rockets, conduct missions throughout the Solar System, and write your own history of Space exploration. Created with support from the European Space Agency.
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Brewmaster: Beer Brewing Simulator
Single-player alternative to Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Brew your perfect beer in this relaxing home brewing sim. Use a realistic chemistry simulation to brew hoppy IPAs to creamy stouts. Customise your brewing space, create recipes and label your beer, unlock new equipment and enter competitions. Learn to brew, refine your craft and become a Brewmaster!
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Dark Future: Blood Red States (Classic)
Single-player alternative to Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War!.
Step into the extraordinary, dystopian world of Dark Future, filled with danger, chaos and adventure. A game of both action and strategy unlike any other, featuring a unique time dilating command mode to help you make tactical decisions on the dangerous highways of this world.
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Chainsaw Warrior (Classic)
Single-player alternative to Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War!.
Chainsaw Warrior from Games Workshop is the classic game for one strong-nerved player! It's 2032 and spatial warping has opened a hole into another dimension in the midst of the old municipal buildings at the heart of Manhattan. Bizarre and dangerous creatures are flooding into our dimension.
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Ogre
Single-player alternative to Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War!.
The official adaptation of the legendary wargame from Steve Jackson Games. Engage in futuristic warfare with armored hovercraft, superheavy tanks, infantry, and giant cybernetic war machines called "Ogres".
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Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics
Single-player alternative to Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War!.
Challenge the horrifying reign of Nazi terror and battle an immortal evil in Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics; a turn-based tactical strategy game set in the award-winning Achtung! Cthulhu universe.
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Chainsaw Warrior: Lords of the Night (Classic)
Single-player alternative to Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War!.
Based on the 1987 Games Workshop classic, a battle vs zombies cultists & time! Fight against hordes of Aztec Zombies, and the clock, to save reality from Darkness. Lords of the Night introduces an upgraded combat system, new weapons, powers, equipment and unique mini bosses.