Single-player games like Star Command (1988)
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Star Command (1988), 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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Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™
Single-player alternative to Star Command (1988) — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth is a new science-fiction-themed entry into the award winning Civilization series. As part of an expedition sent to find a home beyond Earth, lead your people into a new frontier, explore and colonize an alien planet and create a new civilization in space.
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ENDLESS™ Space - Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Star Command (1988) — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
ENDLESS™ Space is a turn-based 4X strategy game, covering the space colonization age in the ENDLESS™ Universe, where you can control every aspect of your civilization as you strive for galactic domination.
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Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
Single-player alternative to Star Command (1988) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Star Command (1988).
A dice-driven RPG, in a human and heartfelt sci-fi world. You are an escaped android, with a malfunctioning body, a price on your head and no memory of your past. Get a ship, find a crew, and take on contracts while you navigate across the Starward Belt.
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Half-Life
Single-player alternative to Star Command (1988) — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Named Game of the Year by over 50 publications, Valve's debut title blends action and adventure with award-winning technology to create a frighteningly realistic world where players must think to survive. Also includes an exciting multiplayer mode that allows you to play against friends and enemies around the world.
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Quarantine Circular
Single-player alternative to Star Command (1988) — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
In the middle of a world-ending pandemic, a group of scientists discover the galaxy has been watching. From the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Subsurface Circular, Quarantine Circular is the next mutation in text-based adventure.
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Dead Space™ 2
Single-player alternative to Star Command (1988) — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Three years after the Necromorph infestation aboard the USS Ishimura, Isaac Clarke awakens from a coma, confused, disoriented, and on a space station called The Sprawl. Explore this world and its zero-g environments to discover the truth about the Unitology and its role in the Necromorph epidemic.
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The Secret of Varonis
Single-player alternative to Star Command (1988) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Star Command (1988).
An indie Gameboy-style RPG. Build a party from four unique races and unravel the mystery of Varonis through challenging old-school turn-based combat.
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Paper Sorcerer
Single-player alternative to Star Command (1988) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Star Command (1988).
Paper Sorcerer is a stylish single player turn based RPG focused on strategy, party-building, and environmental puzzles. Fight with the skills and spells you've learned in a battle system that emphasizes strategy over grinding. Assemble a party of monsters and dark creatures to fight alongside you.
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Forgotten Realms: The Archives - Collection One
Single-player alternative to Star Command (1988) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Star Command (1988).
The Forgotten Realms Archive - Collection One allows you to journey through the set of adventures: the Eye of the Beholder trilogy, a collection of first-person, real-time role-playing games.
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Forgotten Realms: The Archives - Collection Two
Single-player alternative to Star Command (1988) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Star Command (1988).
The Forgotten Realm Archives - Collection Two brings a healthy mix of “Gold Box” and nostalgia goodness to your PC, along with a combination of adventure builders, turn-based and real-time role-playing gameplay.
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Dungeons & Dragons: Krynn Series
Single-player alternative to Star Command (1988) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Star Command (1988).
Return to the first fantasy role-playing epic set in the legendary Dragonlance game world of Krynn. This immortal pack includes Champions of Krynn, Death Knights of Krynn and The Dark Queen of Krynn.
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Fantasy General
Single-player alternative to Star Command (1988) — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Fantasy General invites you to enter a world of heroes, swords, magic and beasts. You must lead your army into battle with the Shadowlord’s forces and defeat each of his lieutenants across varying terrain and battlefields.
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Pacific General
Single-player alternative to Star Command (1988) — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Pacific General explores the Pacific front of the Second World War. Taking control of Axis or Allied forces, you must strategically battle your way through the Eastern and Western front of the Pacific war, using a wide array of land, air and naval forces.
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Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Sun Series
Single-player alternative to Star Command (1988) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Star Command (1988).
Unleash your imagination into a vast, savage world, sun-scorched and wind-scraped. This series contains the radiant classics, Dark Sun: Shattered Lands, and Dark Sun: Wake of the Ravager.
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Silver Box Classics
Single-player alternative to Star Command (1988) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Star Command (1988).
This collection brings back a gathering of adaptations of the events in the first four Dragonlance role-playing modules, at the beginning of the War of the Lance. These are the first video games adaptations of D&D that started it all.
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DragonStrike
Single-player alternative to Star Command (1988) — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Star Command (1988).
The FIRST-EVER dragon combat simulator! This is DragonStrike, where the deadly skies above the Dragonlance game world of Krynn explode before your very eyes. The first-person viewpoint propels you into a fully animated, 3D world of action and excitement! To the skies brave knight - and victory!