Single-player games like Space Tales
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Space Tales, 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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Calyx
Single-player alternative to Space Tales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Space Tales.
A strategy game with a new kind of enemy, Calyx puts you in charge of a space mining outpost, locked in battle against powerful plant-aliens. Build your base, gather resources, assemble your forces, and take on the Calyx. With only an out-of-date AI for company, can you survive?
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Mechanocide: Fortress Omega
Single-player alternative to Space Tales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Tales.
On a forgotten world, confront a malevolent machine intelligence. Extract minerals, build factories, power up the railguns, and arm the missile batteries. Defend the Fortress Omega against the alloyed nightmare.
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Broken Crown
Single-player alternative to Space Tales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Tales.
Broken Crown is a fantasy RTS where you build a settlement, gather resources, research powerful upgrades, and command hundreds of units in formation-based battles. Advance troops through five visual tiers, preserve Bronze-to-Gold veterans, and conquer tactical maps shaped by Fog of War.
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WarOS
Single-player alternative to Space Tales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Space Tales.
Step into the world of galactic combat in "WarOS", a Chinese sci-fi game! It creates its own structure, integrating the core gameplay of RTS with the details, plot and growth system of RPG, simplifying complex micro-manipulation, and making the game experience both fun and exhilarating.
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Simulator of Ukraine 1991
Single-player alternative to Space Tales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Tales.
This game is a global strategy, which is primarily focused on Ukraine after leaving the Soviet occupation. Here you will be given control of Ukraine with the opportunity to change history and intervene in the events of that time.
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Pixel Starships 2
Single-player alternative to Space Tales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Space Tales.
First Glimpse on Steam Next: Build, Configure, and Manage every aspect of your own Starship. An FTL-esque game in a MMO setting. Pre bundled with deep strategy, exploration, PVP, market economy, trading, mining. Basically everything a star captain wants to do after a day at the office :)
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Riftborne
Single-player alternative to Space Tales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Tales.
Riftborne is a classic terminal based, real time, grand strategy game. Construct space ships. Take part in factional warfare. Hire galactic hit-men on your rivals. Raid neighbors for rare resources. Train spies to infiltrate enemy bases for key intel. Grow your empire to dominate the galaxy.
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Mechs & Mercs: Black Talons
Single-player alternative to Space Tales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Tales.
You are the commander of the Black Talons company, currently stationed in the Oberon system. After an eventful campaign, the military Tzanar Union has overrun the planet of Genai and blocked all departure from the system: leaving you and the Black Talons stranded.