Single-player games like Deep Among the Swarm
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Deep Among the Swarm, 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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They Are Billions
Single-player alternative to Deep Among the Swarm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Deep Among the Swarm.
They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?
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From Glory To Goo
Single-player alternative to Deep Among the Swarm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Deep Among the Swarm.
From Glory To Goo is a Sci-Fi survival RTS set on an alien world. Serve as humanity's bulwark by establishing a colony and supporting your colonists still in orbit. But beware, for The Goo, a relentless and shape-shifting force approaches from all sides, even above and below.
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Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
Single-player alternative to Deep Among the Swarm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Deep Among the Swarm.
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
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Tower Dominion
Single-player alternative to Deep Among the Swarm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Deep Among the Swarm.
Build and design the terrain while defending your stronghold against alien invasion in this unique Roguelike tower defense. Choose from 30 heroes, survive enemy waves, and upgrade a variety of destructive towers to hold the line!
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Freaking Meatbags
Single-player alternative to Deep Among the Swarm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Deep Among the Swarm.
Land on a planet, pick up some rocks, leave before the solar system explodes. Oh, and don't die in the nightly robot attacks! Freaking Meatbags is a humorous real-time strategy game that's all about building a base, mixing meatbag DNA, then convincing those dolts to help you gather resources.
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Final Outpost: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Deep Among the Swarm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Deep Among the Swarm.
Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse. Assign roles, craft tools, and manage resources carefully. Construct buildings, level up your citizens, and fortify your town against hordes of zombies. How many days can you survive?
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Project Of Cooling The Earth
Single-player alternative to Deep Among the Swarm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Deep Among the Swarm.
Players must survive in the ruins of the human world and face various survival challenges and dangers. Players need to search for resources in abandoned cities and wilderness, including food, water sources, construction materials, etc., to maintain survival and build safe shelters.
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Rebirth evolution
Single-player alternative to Deep Among the Swarm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Deep Among the Swarm.
2D pixel style simulation business strategy game Build and operate your own survivor base, recruit and cultivate various professional combatants. Clear zombie strongholds, reduce regional infections, survive in the apocalypse, and establish your own power.
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Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Uprising
Single-player alternative to Deep Among the Swarm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Deep Among the Swarm.
Red Alert 3: Uprising features four new mini-campaigns, giving players a deeper dive into the storyline's of the Soviets, the Allies, the Empire of the Rising Sun and a unique campaign centered on the origins of everyone’s favorite psionic Japanese schoolgirl commando, Yuriko Omega.
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Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal
Single-player alternative to Deep Among the Swarm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Deep Among the Swarm.
Creeper World 3 is what happens when cellular automata takes over a strategy simulation. Instead of discrete units that attack your base, a fluid-like substance spreads over the terraformable terrain. Your base, your weapons, your strategy... you must adapt them all.
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Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Deep Among the Swarm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Deep Among the Swarm.
42 Civilizations, 229 Campaign Missions, Singleplayer, Co-Op, Multiplayer, In-Game Editor, Mods, Cross-play...It is good to be the king.