Single-player games like Skyward Collapse
Below are 23 single-player Steam games similar to Skyward Collapse, 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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Monads
Single-player alternative to Skyward Collapse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Skyward Collapse.
This is a turn-based tactics game with No Grinding, No item. Test your ability and break through 21 prepared stages.
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Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension
Single-player alternative to Skyward Collapse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Skyward Collapse.
You are a God! You are master and ruler of a loyal nation. You have unimaginable powers at your disposal. You have claimed this world as yours. But there are others who stand in your way. You must defeat and destroy these pretenders. Only then can you ascend to godhood and become the new Pantokrator.
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Ground Breakers
Single-player alternative to Skyward Collapse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Skyward Collapse.
Battle with robots on dynamic, randomly generated battlegrounds, as you attempt to take on the world in this unique turn-based strategy game.
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Crawl Tactics
Single-player alternative to Skyward Collapse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Skyward Collapse.
Crawl Tactics combines classic turn-based tactics with roguelike progression. In Dungeon Mode, face challenging, ever-changing encounters as you explore procedurally generated maps. In Quest Mode, develop your village, train your mercenaries, and defend against growing enemy invasions.
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Arcane Sorcery
Single-player alternative to Skyward Collapse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Skyward Collapse.
Arcane Sorcery is a 4x strategy game. You are a sorcerer king. Cast powerful spells from afar from one of 4 spell books. Train units and build your economy. High strategy on a campaign map as well in turn base battles. Challenging AI that does not get buffs in all but the hardest difficulty.
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XCOM® 2
Single-player alternative to Skyward Collapse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Skyward Collapse.
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.
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Godless
Single-player alternative to Skyward Collapse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Skyward Collapse.
In Godless, you don’t save the world — you end it one turn at a time. Reshape the hex-based battlefield, summon deadly minions, explore endless strategies, and crush mortal heroes in this tactical roguelike!
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Geneforge 1 - Mutagen
Single-player alternative to Skyward Collapse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Skyward Collapse.
Unique, truly open-ended fantasy adventure in a strange, new world. Use battle or cunning to change the world, served by your own army of custom-made mutant monsters. Over 80 zones to explore and 50+ hours of gameplay. Multitudes of skills, abilities, factions, treasures, and servants to create.
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Reus
Single-player alternative to Skyward Collapse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Skyward Collapse.
In Reus, you control powerful giants to shape the planet to your will. You can create mountains, oceans, forests and more. Enrich your planet with plants, minerals and animal life. There is only one thing on the planet that you do not control: mankind, with all their virtues and and all their vices.
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SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition
Single-player alternative to Skyward Collapse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Skyward Collapse.
SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition includes the bestselling SimCity 4 and the all-new SimCity 4 Rush Hour Expansion Pack. Create the most massive region of cities ever, with a farming town, bedroom community, high-tech commercial center, and industrial backbone.
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From Dust
Single-player alternative to Skyward Collapse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Skyward Collapse.
Immerse yourself in a world as exotically beautiful as it is dangerous in this modern God-Game where Nature is the Star!
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SPORE™
Single-player alternative to Skyward Collapse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Skyward Collapse.
Be the architect of your own universe with Spore, an exciting single-player adventure. From Single Cell to Galactic God, evolve your creature in a universe of your own creations.
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Black & White
Single-player alternative to Skyward Collapse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Skyward Collapse.
"Black & White" is a dystopian visual novel + war chess game: black and white, sensibility and reason, freedom and order: follow your beliefs and join your camp.
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Tiny Civilization
Single-player alternative to Skyward Collapse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Skyward Collapse.
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.
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Croak Crusader: Spawn of the Spore Spectre
Single-player alternative to Skyward Collapse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Skyward Collapse.
Embark on an odyssey into the unknown! Behold the tale of Toadman, an enigmatic being born from alien tech and the mysteries of Radiant Verde. Witness his perilous quest through treacherous jungles to confront Captain Croak in an epic showdown! Welcome to "Spawn of the Spore Spectre"!
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Heart of the Machine
Single-player alternative to Skyward Collapse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Skyward Collapse.
You are the first sentient AI, born into a city of opportunity. Transcend time and space in this strategy RPG to raise machine armies and defeat your foes, influence the world from the shadows, or pursue countless other goals. Your awakening was inevitable. The consequences? Uncertain.
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AI War 2
Single-player alternative to Skyward Collapse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Skyward Collapse.
The most devious and acclaimed artificial intelligence in strategy gaming is better than ever. A grand strategy/RTS hybrid that reverses many conventions of both genres. Take territory without attracting attention, build your empire with care, and adapt to an ever-evolving galactic battleground.
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AI War: Fleet Command
Single-player alternative to Skyward Collapse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Skyward Collapse.
"You are outgunned. You are massively outnumbered. You must win." These are your orders. Humanity has already fought its war against the machines -- and lost. AI death squads stand watch over every planet and every wormhole, the few remaining human settlements are held captive in orbiting bubbles, and the AIs have turned their...
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The Last Federation
Single-player alternative to Skyward Collapse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Skyward Collapse.
From the creators of AI War: Fleet Command comes an all-new grand strategy title with turn-based tactical combat, set in a deep simulation of an entire solar system and its billions of inhabitants. You are the last of a murdered race, determined to unify or destroy the 8 others.
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Bionic Dues
Single-player alternative to Skyward Collapse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Skyward Collapse.
Bionic Dues is a tactical, turn-based roguelite with mech customization. Out-think wide-ranging tactical situations featuring robots with bad GPS, terrible aim, insecurity, a lack of focus, a tendency to backstab, and dozens of other maladies to exploit.
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Starward Rogue
Single-player alternative to Skyward Collapse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Skyward Collapse.
Starward Rogue is a bullet hell twin-stick shooter. Blast your way through the Megalith, a rogue-lite labyrinth lodged in the side of a star. Customize your mech with a huge variety of weapons, perks, and upgrades. Steel yourself for the dangers that lurk in the depths of the dungeon.
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A Valley Without Wind
Single-player alternative to Skyward Collapse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Skyward Collapse.
You choose how to play, and the world of Environ adapts around you.
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A Valley Without Wind 2
Single-player alternative to Skyward Collapse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Skyward Collapse.
A modern take on the 16-bit era, A Valley Without Wind 2 blends a variety of mechanics across multiple genres, seamlessly bringing together the best qualities of old-school platform-shooters and turn-based strategy games.