Single-player games like Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak
Below are 21 single-player Steam games similar to Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak, 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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Homeworld 3
Single-player alternative to Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak.
Tactical, beautiful, and wholly unique, the GOTY-winning sci-fi RTS returns with Homeworld 3. Assume control and battle through fleet combat in dazzling, fully 3D space while the award-winning story unfolds on a galactic scale.
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Supreme Commander 2
Single-player alternative to Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak.
Includes 47 Steam achievements, leaderboards, and stats!
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Homeworld Remastered Collection
Single-player alternative to Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak.
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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Sins of a Solar Empire II
Single-player alternative to Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak.
Battle for galactic dominance in this real-time 4X strategy game with unrivaled scale! You’ll explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate through military force, diplomacy, trade, culture, influence, and other underhanded tactics.
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Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity®
Single-player alternative to Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak.
In Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity, you are the leader of a civilization embroiled in a galactic war, fighting for the survival of your entire race against relentless foes.
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SPACECOM
Single-player alternative to Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak.
SPACECOM – a strategic-to-the-bone, starfleet command game in which deception, smart movement, and choices to battle decide victory or defeat.
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Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II: Retribution
Single-player alternative to Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak.
Command any of the six unique factions in the next standalone expansion of the critically acclaimed Dawn of War real-time strategy franchise. Choose to build a massive army or lead a small squad of elite heroes into battle and experience a single player campaign customized to your favorite race.
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Earth 2160
Single-player alternative to Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak.
After the destruction of the EARTH in 2150, the leaders of the Eurasian Dynasty escaped on board an evacuation fleet. Now they are fighting for the survival of the human species. Their base is one large building comprising of smaller variable parts.
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Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2
Single-player alternative to Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak.
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 is the new real-time strategy game adapted from Games Workshop’s famous tabletop game that portrays the epic space battles of the Warhammer 40,000 universe.
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Starvector
Single-player alternative to Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak.
Eat a snack while you watch an entire planet burn in your image.
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NEBULOUS: Fleet Command
Single-player alternative to Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak.
Take command of your hand-tailored fleet of space warships and use realistic radar, electronic warfare, advanced movement controls in 3D space, and precision targeting to outmaneuver and outwit your opponents in a simulation-heavy tactical space game like no other.
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Haegemonia: Legions of Iron
Single-player alternative to Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak.
From the makers of the award-winning Imperium Galactica 1 and 2 games, discover a powerful space-opera like RTS game.
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SC2VN - The eSports Visual Novel
Single-player alternative to Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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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Genesis Rising
Single-player alternative to Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak.
Three thousand years in the future, mankind has carved a bloody path towards domination of the known universe. Self-proclaimed as a divine race and beyond reproach as a species, they view all alien races as inferior.
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Escape the Backrooms
Single-player alternative to Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Escape the Backrooms is a 1-4 player co-op horror exploration game. Traverse 30+ eerie backrooms levels while avoiding entities and other dangers. Try to escape but be warned: survival isn't guaranteed.
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Hardspace: Shipbreaker
Single-player alternative to Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Equipped with cutting-edge salvaging tech, carve & slice spaceships to recover valuable materials. Upgrade your gear to take on more lucrative contracts and pay your billion credits debt to LYNX Corp!
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Minecraft Legends
Single-player alternative to Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak.
Discover the mysteries of Minecraft Legends, a new action strategy game. Explore a gentle land of rich resources and lush biomes on the brink of destruction. The ravaging piglins have arrived, and it’s up to you to inspire your allies and lead them in strategic battles to save the Overworld!
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Crossfire: Legion
Single-player alternative to Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak.
Crossfire: Legion is a real time strategy game featuring tactical action in furious battles across a shattered version of the near future. Raise and customize your army to engage in intense online combat and carve your own path as you rise through the ranks. It’s a new generation of warfare.
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Ambrosia Sky: Act One
Single-player alternative to Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
You left. Now they’re dead. Ambrosia Sky: Act One is an immersive sim about exploring an asteroid colony devastated by an unknown contamination. Survive and harvest strains of hostile alien fungi, explore treacherous environments, and find meaning and beauty in so much death—the first of two acts.
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Earthless
Single-player alternative to Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak.
EARTHLESS is a sci-fi, roguelike deckbuilder where humankind has been thrust into the cosmic wind on a fleet of starships captained by you. To find a new home, you must draw your own path through the stars and play the hand you’re dealt. You are our hope in the darkness.
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Company of Heroes - Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak.
Company of Heroes – Definitive Edition, features the original Company of Heroes along with the Opposing Fronts and Tales of Valor Expansions, enhanced visuals, quality-of-life gameplay improvements, and 64-bit platform support.