Single-player games like ERA ONE
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to ERA ONE, 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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Ablight
Single-player alternative to ERA ONE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with ERA ONE.
Ablight is a classic real-time strategy game set in an alternate universe where diesel, cyberpunk and medieval aesthetics meet. Join the rebellion against the zealotic Inquisition, who have been mankinds scourge for hundreds of years and fight a war for survival. Freedom is within reach!
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Fungal Front
Single-player alternative to ERA ONE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Early Access with ERA ONE.
A fast-paced action RTS set on Mycopia, a living fungal planet that fights back. Harvest serum, build your base, and command armies of humans or Shroomies across single-player missions, co-op, and online PvP.
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ZeroSpace
Single-player alternative to ERA ONE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with ERA ONE.
ZeroSpace is a hybrid sci-fi RTS / RPG game that allows you to play as the commander of The Protectorate, a galactic force dedicated to securing humanity’s place in the galaxy. The Orion sector is locked in a vicious power struggle between many alien factions, ready to fight to the death.
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Mk50TWL Vehicle Battler Custom Slider
Single-player alternative to ERA ONE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Early Access with ERA ONE.
Modern / sci-fi strategy in (rough) terrain, space, sea. Vehicle designer with custom weapons and custom chassis sizes. Some realism-inspired mechanics and complex rules including vision, sensors, destroyable components. Turn-based campaign about battles, survival, lite 4x and resource management.
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Prime Domination
Single-player alternative to ERA ONE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Early Access with ERA ONE.
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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Admirals of Ophiuchus
Single-player alternative to ERA ONE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with ERA ONE.
Design massive ships, bristling with weapons, on a macro scale. Engage in fleet-vs-fleet battles, featuring many different tactics. Play alone or in Coop combat missions, or form two teams of players (each with own fleet) to fight in an arena.
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Solar Kingdoms: Human Survival
Single-player alternative to ERA ONE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with ERA ONE.
Solar Kingdoms is a real-time strategy game where you command forces across solar systems, engaging in large battles both in space and on the surfaces planets. Establish colonies, find resources and artifacts, and fight up to 8 factions in skirmish, large campaign, missions, and multiplayer.
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SunWars
Single-player alternative to ERA ONE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with ERA ONE.
Over 500,000 players on mobile! Sun Wars is a real-time strategy game set in a galactic war between suns. Build and boost your solar system, attack enemy suns, avoid deadly black holes, and manage energy wisely. Only smart tactics and strategy will let you survive and win the war.
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Stellar Warfare
Single-player alternative to ERA ONE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with ERA ONE.
Space RTS with base building and ship customization. Personal passion project. More than 200 available ships, weapons and modules to design your fleet with. Contains a small campaign, several single and multiplayer game modes and a coop game mode. Also contains Wave defense!
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Homeworld Remastered Collection
Single-player alternative to ERA ONE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with ERA ONE.
Experience the epic space strategy games that redefined the RTS genre. Control your fleet and build an armada across more than 30 single-player missions. Choose unit types, fleet formations and flight tactics for each strategic situation.
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Space Engineers
Single-player alternative to ERA ONE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with ERA ONE.
Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.
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Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
Single-player alternative to ERA ONE — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
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Avorion
Single-player alternative to ERA ONE — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A procedural co-op space sandbox where players can build their own space ships out of dynamically scalable blocks. Fight epic space battles, explore, mine, trade, wage wars and build your own empire to save your galaxy from being torn apart by an unknown enemy.
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MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries
Single-player alternative to ERA ONE — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The year is 3015. The battlefields are dominated by war machines known as BattleMechs. Level entire cities and decimate the enemy in your BattleMech. Follow a quest for glory and revenge. Manage an expanding mercenary company. Fight alongside your friends with a four-player PvE co-op.
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NavalArt
Single-player alternative to ERA ONE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Early Access with ERA ONE.
Design your own warships, equip them with a variety of armament, and bring them out to the ocean!
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Starminer
Single-player alternative to ERA ONE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with ERA ONE.
Design and build a massive interstellar fleet in this simulation sandbox. Strip space of its minerals for profit, but stay alert: your greed attracts the alien. Master deep base-building and deploy warships to protect your empire in immersive real-time space.