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 With only an out-of-date AI for company, can you survive?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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Prime Domination
Single-player alternative to Space Tales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Tales.
Prime Domination is a real-time strategy game where you build your base, manage finance, produce powerful military units, and battle against AI or other players in large-scale multiplayer matches with up to 10 commanders.
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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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RTS Outpost
Single-player alternative to Space Tales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Space Tales.
Build your base, command your army, and wage real-time PvP war on a living conquest map. Clear a frontier of monsters and alien UFOs, join a faction, team up with friends, and climb the seasonal ranks. A classic base-building RTS with modern military firepower, ad-free on desktop.
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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 :)