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Single-player games like Dust Raiders

Below are 21 single-player Steam games similar to Dust Raiders, 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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    Roady Life — Steam game cover

    Roady Life

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

    Experience the life of a trucker, delivering cargo between various industries. Feed the most valuable production lines or fulfill contracts to earn enough money to own the largest fleet of trucks among your friends, or start your own industries to maximize your profits.

    2022StrategyIndieAdventure14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Dominus Orbis Maris 1400: Mare Nostrum — Steam game cover

    Dominus Orbis Maris 1400: Mare Nostrum

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

    DOM 1400: Mare Nostrum is an immersive maritime strategy and economic simulation game set in the Mediterranean during the 15th century. Establish trade routes, manage the daily needs of different social classes, and dominate the market through a realistic economy driven by dynamic scarcity.

    2027StrategyIndieSimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Dead Night Highway — Steam game cover

    Dead Night Highway

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

    Dead Night Highway is a compact colony simulator where a group of survivors on their journey west sets up camps to replenish resources, but zombie horde only grows larger...

    2026ActionStrategyIndieSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Billionaire in the Oil Boom — Steam game cover

    Billionaire in the Oil Boom

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

    Wealth, power, greed: in the oil boom of the 1960s, money never sleeps. Invest in stocks, commodities and real estate, acquire companies and manipulate markets to build a financial empire. Use mergers, Ruthless speculation and strategies to dominate the global economy.

    2025StrategySimulation7.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Power & Revolution 2023 Edition — Steam game cover

    Power & Revolution 2023 Edition

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

    The latest edition of the ultrarealistic world simulator where you play as the Head of State or as the opposition! New Additions: dive deeper into the war in the Ukraine with artillery, trenches, mines, troop morale, etc; detailed immigration management; the justice system; and children.

    2023StrategySimulation49.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Trade City — Steam game cover

    Trade City

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

    Trade City is a simple city building game that you build your own city by building/developing new buildings.Grow your city with production and trade, and conquer other cities on the map without fighting.

    2023StrategyIndieCasual3.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Gelluloid Domination — Steam game cover

    Gelluloid Domination

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

    Gelluloid Domination is a fast-paced, strategic and tactical game where you grow a network of cells. Expand by assimilating nearby cells, fight off pathogens and develop nanoboosts in the lab. Other cells want to propagate their DNA too, so this won't be easy. Can your cells achieve domination?

    2025ActionStrategySimulation11.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Warehouse Tycoon — Steam game cover

    Warehouse Tycoon

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

    Warehouse Tycoon is a journey to Warehouse Legendary! Brave the business war. Today's dog in the water must be the crown in the city! With the company's destiny in your hands, every success drives you farther. Use your wisdom and guts to build a warehouse Empire!

    StrategyIndieSimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Sid Meier's Pirates! — Steam game cover

    Sid Meier's Pirates!

    Single-player alternative to Dust Raiders — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    Sail the Caribbean, marauding all on the high seas or ally your ship and crew as a privateer in search of riches - the life you choose is up to you. Face dogged enemies, raid unsuspecting villages, woo fair maidens, avoid capture or dig for buried treasure. Discover what it takes to become one of the most famous pirates in history!

    2005RPG9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Fallout 4 — Steam game cover

    Fallout 4

    Single-player alternative to Dust Raiders — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    From Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of Starfield and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, comes Fallout 4. A landmark in open-world RPG design and winner of over 200 ‘Best Of’ honors, including the DICE and BAFTA Game of the Year.

    2015RPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Starvector — Steam game cover

    Starvector

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

    Eat a snack while you watch an entire planet burn in your image.

    ActionStrategyIndieSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    C-Wars — Steam game cover

    C-Wars

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

    C-Wars is pixel action game with strategy, rogue-like flavor, and a 16-bit graphics which is retro enough to bring you back to 90's. If you love challenge, pixel art, and occasionally play FPS, then C-Wars is worth to try out.

    2015ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Mad Max — Steam game cover

    Mad Max

    Single-player alternative to Dust Raiders — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    Play as Mad Max, a reluctant hero and survivor who wants nothing more than to leave the madness behind and find solace.

    2015ActionAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    난중설화: The Tales of Imjin War — Steam game cover

    난중설화: The Tales of Imjin War

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

    Join the epic journey of the Yuldogook warriors to uncover the truth behind the Imjin War and end the war once and for all.

    2022ActionIndieRPG19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Port Royale 3 — Steam game cover

    Port Royale 3

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

    The Caribbean, in the turbulent 17th Century. The mighty kingdoms of Spain, England, France and the Netherlands fight over the colonies. And there you are, a young sea captain whose only goal is to become the most powerful man in the New World.

    2012ActionStrategySimulation14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Crackpet Show — Steam game cover

    The Crackpet Show

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

    The Crackpet Show is an action-packed rogue-lite shoot’em-up about mutated animals that fight in a bizarre TV show, crushing their opponents with a variety of weapons. Choose your beastie, gear ‘em up, and go kill your enemies in the name of fame and sweet sponsorship deals!

    2022ActionIndieAdventure16.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Edge of Sanity — Steam game cover

    Edge of Sanity

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

    Set in the unforgiving lands of Alaska, Edge of Sanity is a Cthulhu-inspired, 2D survival horror game. Uncover a disturbing story while madness claws at your mind. Lead a group of survivors and explore, scavenge and survive together - against untold eldritch horrors.

    2024ActionIndie19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Jumping Joe! - Friends Edition — Steam game cover

    Jumping Joe! - Friends Edition

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

    Jump right into the action in this jolly pick ‘n play platformer. An Indie action game perfect for intense playtimes with your friends and family. Help Joe and his fellas on their upwards journey. Be quick as a flash and dodge roaring cannonballs, vicious bats and other traps.

    2020ActionIndieCasual2.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Dino Galaxy Tennis — Steam game cover

    Dino Galaxy Tennis

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

    Dino Galaxy Tennis is a 2D side-view action Tennis game set in space on the surface of various planets with all sorts of dinosaurs. Choose from exciting single-player tournaments, challenges and multi-player modes.

    2021ActionSportsIndie9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Love Colors: Paint with Friends — Steam game cover

    Love Colors: Paint with Friends

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

    Love Colors is the relaxing paint by numbers pixel art game. Choose from over 150 stylish paintings from lovable themes and become the Picasso of the pixel. Playable solo and up to 4-player couch co-op.

    2021IndieCasualFreeSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Crackpet Show: Prologue — Steam game cover

    The Crackpet Show: Prologue

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

    The Crackpet Show is an action-packed rogue-lite shoot’em-up about mutated animals that fight in a bizarre TV show, crushing their opponents with a variety of weapons. Choose your beastie, gear ‘em up, and go kill your enemies in the name of fame and sweet sponsorship deals!

    2022ActionIndieAdventureFreeSingle-playerSimilar games →