Single-player games like Skyward Collapse
Below are 19 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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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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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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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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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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The Battle of Polytopia
Single-player alternative to Skyward Collapse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Skyward Collapse.
Welcome to the unique, turn-based strategy game set in the strange, flat world of the Square. Lead one of 16 distinct civilizations to victory by expanding your empire, researching technologies, and ultimately become ruler of the world! Play in single-player or multiplayer mode for up to 16 players.
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These Doomed Isles
Single-player alternative to Skyward Collapse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Skyward Collapse.
Harvest cards to raise land from the sea, build settlements and rain fire upon invaders in this survival city-builder with roguelike deckbuilding mechanics. Choose from 4 gods with unique cards, playstyles and abilities to lead their civilisations to victory in strategic run-based gameplay!
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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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Rising Lords
Single-player alternative to Skyward Collapse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Skyward Collapse.
Rising Lords is a medieval turn-based strategy game with card and board game elements. Send your serfs to fight and die in your name... or let them prosper, and use them to your advantage!
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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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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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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 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.