Single-player games like The Last Federation
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to The Last Federation, 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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Horizon
Single-player alternative to The Last Federation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Federation.
Horizon is a turn-based space strategy game of galactic exploration and conquest in which you are in control of humanity’s destiny. You will explore deep space, find new frontiers and discover alien artifacts hidden on long-abandoned planets.
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Distant Worlds: Universe
Single-player alternative to The Last Federation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Last Federation.
Distant Worlds is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game. Experience the full depth and detail of turn-based strategy, but with the simplicity and ease of real-time, and on the scale of a massively-multiplayer online game.
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AI War: Fleet Command
Single-player alternative to The Last Federation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Federation.
"You are outgunned. You are massively outnumbered. You must win." These are your orders. Humanity has already fought its war against the machines -- and lost. AI death squads stand watch over every planet and every wormhole, the few remaining human settlements are held captive in orbiting bubbles, and the AIs have turned their...
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Polaris Sector
Single-player alternative to The Last Federation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Last Federation.
Can anyone build an empire in a place like this? Other factions are naturally suspicious of newcomers and may wage war at the first sign of unidentified craft. Here, a natural death is an uncommon luxury.
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Stellaris
Single-player alternative to The Last Federation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Last Federation.
Explore a galaxy full of wonders in this sci-fi grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studios. Interact with diverse alien races, discover strange new worlds with unexpected events and expand the reach of your empire. Each new adventure holds almost limitless possibilities.
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Xenonauts
Single-player alternative to The Last Federation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Federation.
Xenonauts is a strategy game in which you control a multi-national military organisation defending a Cold War-era Earth from alien invasion, using small squads of persistent soldiers to eliminate the extraterrestrials and recover their technology in turn-based ground combat.
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Galactic Civilizations III
Single-player alternative to The Last Federation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with The Last Federation.
Build a civilization that will stand the test of time in the largest space-based strategy game ever! Choose from dozens of unique races and make a name for yourself across the galaxy through diplomacy, espionage, technological advances, and more.
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ENDLESS™ Space - Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to The Last Federation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with The Last Federation.
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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Drox Operative
Single-player alternative to The Last Federation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Last Federation.
Drox Operative is a starship action RPG with warring alien races, fierce space battles, a dynamic, evolving galaxy, and co-op multiplayer for Windows and Mac.Eons ago the Drox ruled the galaxy through their mighty Operatives. These elite starship captains were trained to accomplish the impossible at whatever cost necessary.
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Heart of the Machine
Single-player alternative to The Last Federation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Last Federation.
You are the first sentient AI, born into a city of opportunity. Transcend time and space in this strategy RPG to raise machine armies and defeat your foes, influence the world from the shadows, or pursue countless other goals. Your awakening was inevitable. The consequences? Uncertain.
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AI War 2
Single-player alternative to The Last Federation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Federation.
The most devious and acclaimed artificial intelligence in strategy gaming is better than ever. A grand strategy/RTS hybrid that reverses many conventions of both genres. Take territory without attracting attention, build your empire with care, and adapt to an ever-evolving galactic battleground.
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Bionic Dues
Single-player alternative to The Last Federation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Federation.
Bionic Dues is a tactical, turn-based roguelite with mech customization. Out-think wide-ranging tactical situations featuring robots with bad GPS, terrible aim, insecurity, a lack of focus, a tendency to backstab, and dozens of other maladies to exploit.
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Starward Rogue
Single-player alternative to The Last Federation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Last Federation.
Starward Rogue is a bullet hell twin-stick shooter. Blast your way through the Megalith, a rogue-lite labyrinth lodged in the side of a star. Customize your mech with a huge variety of weapons, perks, and upgrades. Steel yourself for the dangers that lurk in the depths of the dungeon.
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A Valley Without Wind
Single-player alternative to The Last Federation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Last Federation.
You choose how to play, and the world of Environ adapts around you.
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Skyward Collapse
Single-player alternative to The Last Federation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Federation.
How do you balance -- and indeed encourage -- a war between factions without letting either side obliterate the other? How do you rule over gods, creatures, and men who refuse to obey you? How do you build a landscape of villages when bandits and mythology are conspiring to tear it down?
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A Valley Without Wind 2
Single-player alternative to The Last Federation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Federation.
A modern take on the 16-bit era, A Valley Without Wind 2 blends a variety of mechanics across multiple genres, seamlessly bringing together the best qualities of old-school platform-shooters and turn-based strategy games.