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Single-player games like Bionic Dues

Below are 21 single-player Steam games similar to Bionic Dues, 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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    Into the Breach — Steam game cover

    Into the Breach

    Single-player alternative to Bionic Dues — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bionic Dues.

    Control powerful mechs from the future to defeat an alien threat. Each attempt to save the world presents a new randomly generated challenge in this turn-based strategy game.

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Sectron — Steam game cover

    Sectron

    Single-player alternative to Bionic Dues — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bionic Dues.

    Sci-fi turn-based strategy on procedurally generated planetoids. Expand your base, deploy and upgrade units, negotiate alliances, and conquer each unique world. Simple rules, deep tactics. Easy to learn, hard to master.

    2026StrategyIndieSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Mech Armada — Steam game cover

    Mech Armada

    Single-player alternative to Bionic Dues — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bionic Dues.

    Create and command custom Mechs to outmaneuver The Swarm in this post-apocalyptic tactical turn-based rogue-lite. Leverage the terrain, learn each Mech's unique skills and use strategy and resources to survive an ever-changing series of battles to give humanity hope.

    2022StrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Crowntakers — Steam game cover

    Crowntakers

    Single-player alternative to Bionic Dues — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bionic Dues.

    Crowntakers combines turn-based strategy with RPG elements and takes you at the behest of the crown into a medieval fantasy world full of challenging encounters and epic adventures. With its randomly generated world, Crowntakers offers a varied gaming experience every time you set out to fight evil.

    2014StrategyIndieRPG9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Dead Hand — Steam game cover

    Dead Hand

    Single-player alternative to Bionic Dues — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bionic Dues.

    Dead Hand is a turn based tactical roguelike game set in a fully destructible procedural environment. Guide your Autonomous Weapons Platform in a fatalistic trek through a multiple level underground cave complex in order to fulfill your directives.

    2019StrategyIndieRPG19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Star Renegades — Steam game cover

    Star Renegades

    Single-player alternative to Bionic Dues — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bionic Dues.

    Star Renegades is a dimension spanning rogue-lite strategy RPG. Outsmart uniquely generated adversaries, forge bonds between heroes and end the cycle!

    2020ActionStrategyIndie24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Steam Marines — Steam game cover

    Steam Marines

    Single-player alternative to Bionic Dues — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bionic Dues.

    Steam Marines is a squad based Roguelike set on a steampunk spaceship. It features tactical play focused on positioning and careful use of resources. Built to keep you on your toes as you progress through the decks of your besieged ship while clearing enemies and trying to reach each level's elevator.

    2014StrategyIndieRPG19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Rogue Waters — Steam game cover

    Rogue Waters

    Single-player alternative to Bionic Dues — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Bionic Dues.

    Rogue Waters is a Pirate Tactical Turn-Based Rogue-lite. Play as Captain Cutter, commanding your ship and crew through procedurally generated encounters to seek revenge. Recruit, train, and upgrade crew, use powerful sea creatures, and engage in dynamic naval and melee combat to gain the upper hand.

    2024ActionStrategyAdventure29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    X-COM: UFO Defense — Steam game cover

    X-COM: UFO Defense

    Single-player alternative to Bionic Dues — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Bionic Dues.

    You are in control of X-COM: an organization formed by the world's governments to fight the ever-increasing alien menace.

    2008Strategy4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Gratuitous Space Battles — Steam game cover

    Gratuitous Space Battles

    Single-player alternative to Bionic Dues — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bionic Dues.

    The first ever auto-battler game, from way back in 2009Who needs backstory? Who needs resource-gathering? Diplomacy is so last year. Gratuitous Space Battles cuts right to the chase of sci-fi strategy games, and deals with large, completely unjustified space battles between huge opposing space fleets.

    2009StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Last Federation — Steam game cover

    The Last Federation

    Single-player alternative to Bionic Dues — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bionic Dues.

    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.

    2014StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Total War: WARHAMMER II — Steam game cover

    Total War: WARHAMMER II

    Single-player alternative to Bionic Dues — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Bionic Dues.

    Strategy gaming perfected. A breath-taking campaign of exploration, expansion and conquest across a fantasy world. Turn-based civilisation management and real-time epic strategy battles with thousands of troops and monsters at your command.

    2017ActionStrategy59.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Rusted Warfare - RTS — Steam game cover

    Rusted Warfare - RTS

    Single-player alternative to Bionic Dues — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bionic Dues.

    {{An RTS inspired by the classics of the past!}} Making up for it's subpar retro graphics with fun gameplay and modern multi-threaded tech enabling huge battles to run smooth... Featuring singleplayer challenges, skirmish, sandbox, 10-player multiplayer & workshop modding.

    2017StrategyIndie4.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    AI WAR — Steam game cover

    AI WAR

    Single-player alternative to Bionic Dues — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Bionic Dues.

    The exciting shooting game, AI WAR, is a war game where players need go through a hail of bullets and blow up the master control base of the intelligent robots. This game is full of uncertainty, where players seem to be in a real war field and the unexpected may happen any time. Wish you good luck!

    2022ActionIndieSimulation5.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Heart of the Machine — Steam game cover

    Heart of the Machine

    Single-player alternative to Bionic Dues — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Bionic Dues.

    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.

    2026StrategySimulationRPG29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    AI War 2 — Steam game cover

    AI War 2

    Single-player alternative to Bionic Dues — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bionic Dues.

    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.

    2019StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    AI War: Fleet Command — Steam game cover

    AI War: Fleet Command

    Single-player alternative to Bionic Dues — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bionic Dues.

    "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...

    2009StrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Starward Rogue — Steam game cover

    Starward Rogue

    Single-player alternative to Bionic Dues — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Bionic Dues.

    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.

    2016ActionIndieRPG11.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    A Valley Without Wind — Steam game cover

    A Valley Without Wind

    Single-player alternative to Bionic Dues — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Bionic Dues.

    You choose how to play, and the world of Environ adapts around you.

    2012ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Skyward Collapse — Steam game cover

    Skyward Collapse

    Single-player alternative to Bionic Dues — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bionic Dues.

    How do you balance -- and indeed encourage -- a war between factions without letting either side obliterate the other? How do you rule over gods, creatures, and men who refuse to obey you? How do you build a landscape of villages when bandits and mythology are conspiring to tear it down?

    2013StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    A Valley Without Wind 2 — Steam game cover

    A Valley Without Wind 2

    Single-player alternative to Bionic Dues — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bionic Dues.

    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.

    2013ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →