Single-player games like Space Run
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Space Run, 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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Space Cheese Defenders
Single-player alternative to Space Run — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Run.
A tower defense game with RTS elements about gathering cheese in space, where mobile carriers are able to deploy smaller spacecraft. Collect cheese to buy and upgrade spaceships and use each type to customize your playstyle and defend your base!
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Millennium Conflict
Single-player alternative to Space Run — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Run.
You are the last survivor. Capture towers, command a squad of unique generals, and battle through 40 missions across 10 distinct worlds as you fight to reclaim a universe that has fallen to the enemy.
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Void Grimm
Single-player alternative to Space Run — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Run.
Void Grimm is a real-time roguelike deckbuilder - In Space! Fight your way through waves of enemy spaceships. Your survival in the fast-paced battles requires quick thinking even at increased adrenaline levels. Optimize your deck, gather your crew, and utilize card synergies to master your runs.
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Kind Heart Defenders
Single-player alternative to Space Run — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Run.
Kind Heart Defenders is an experience that brings the best of Space Shooter with the best of Tower Defense. Have fun building towers, trying different ships, laughing at the characters' jokes, and battling through intergalactic scenarios and gigantic bosses.
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Space Run Galaxy
Single-player alternative to Space Run — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Run.
Space Run Galaxy is the sequel to Space Run, the game from one-man studio Passtech, which seduced hundreds of thousands of players with its dynamic and original gameplay. By twisting the tower-defense game style, Space Run offered an addictive real-time spaceship construction strategy experience.
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AI War 2
Single-player alternative to Space Run — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Run.
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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Gratuitous Space Battles
Single-player alternative to Space Run — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Run.
The first ever auto-battler game, from way back in 2009Who needs backstory? Who needs resource-gathering? Diplomacy is so last year. Gratuitous Space Battles cuts right to the chase of sci-fi strategy games, and deals with large, completely unjustified space battles between huge opposing space fleets.
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Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak
Single-player alternative to Space Run — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Space Run.
A ground-based RTS prequel to the classic Homeworld games. Assemble your fleet and lead them to victory on the shifting sands of Kharak in this compelling strategy game for PC from Blackbird Interactive.
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SC2VN - The eSports Visual Novel
Single-player alternative to Space Run — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Space Run.
SC2VN is a visual novel about the South Korean StarCraft 2 scene. You play as Mach, a foreign semi-pro trying to make it in eSports who soon learns that success in StarCraft takes more than in-game strategy.
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Ravenswatch
Single-player alternative to Space Run — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Fallen heroes of old folk tales and legends: you are on the verge of a crucial battle against the Nightmare invading and corrupting your world. A roguelike action game from the creators of Curse of the Dead Gods©, playable solo or in online co-op.
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Curse of the Dead Gods
Single-player alternative to Space Run — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
You seek untold riches, eternal life, divine powers - it leads to this accursed temple, a seemingly-infinite labyrinth of bottomless pits, deadly traps, and monsters.
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Masters of Anima
Single-player alternative to Space Run — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Space Run.
Delve into an original adventure and defy the forces of evil in strategic, action-packed battles. Summon and control large armies of up to 100 Guardians thanks to intuitive and innovative gameplay and make quick tactical decisions to prevail.