Single-player games like Galactic Counselors
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Galactic Counselors, 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: Deserts of Kharak
Single-player alternative to Galactic Counselors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Galactic Counselors.
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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Anno 2205™
Single-player alternative to Galactic Counselors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Galactic Counselors.
In Anno 2205™, you join humankind‘s next step into the future with the promise to build a better tomorrow. You conquer Earth, establishing rich, bustling cities and grand industrial complexes, but to secure the prosperity of your people, you must travel into space.
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Grey Goo
Single-player alternative to Galactic Counselors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Galactic Counselors.
Fight for control of a frontier world. Gather resources, build your base, and command your forces in battle. Survive long enough to unleash your ultimate weapon - THE EPIC.
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Earth 2160
Single-player alternative to Galactic Counselors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Galactic Counselors.
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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BATTLETECH
Single-player alternative to Galactic Counselors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Galactic Counselors.
Take command of your own mercenary outfit of 'Mechs and the MechWarriors that pilot them, struggling to stay afloat as you find yourself drawn into a brutal interstellar civil war.
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Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™
Single-player alternative to Galactic Counselors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Galactic Counselors.
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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Age of Wonders: Planetfall
Single-player alternative to Galactic Counselors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Galactic Counselors.
Age of Wonders: Planetfall is the new strategy game from Triumph Studios, creators of the critically acclaimed Age of Wonders series, bringing all the exciting tactical turn-based combat and in-depth empire building of its predecessors to space in an all-new, sci-fi setting.
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Aliens: Dark Descent
Single-player alternative to Galactic Counselors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Galactic Counselors.
Drop into the gripping journey of Aliens: Dark Descent, a squad-based, single-player action game in the iconic Alien franchise. Lead your soldiers in real-time to stop a new and terrifying kind of Xenomorph outbreak on Planet Lethe.
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The Finnish War
Single-player alternative to Galactic Counselors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Galactic Counselors.
In a time when the Napoleonic Wars were raging in Europe, another minor theatre took place in the far north. In the lands of the Kingdom of Sweden, in modern-day Finland, the Finnish War was a conflict in a dangerous land that saw stories, battles, and heroes unlike anywhere else in the continent.
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Sotidrokhima
Single-player alternative to Galactic Counselors — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Sotidrokhima is a story-driven top-down hack-and-slash game with first-person elements. Set in mid-13th century Finland, the eponymous folk hero must rise against oppressors from across the sea to save his people, while dealing with a personal vendetta as well as his own mysterious heritage.
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Vikings Hnefatafl: Kings of the Dark Age
Single-player alternative to Galactic Counselors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Galactic Counselors.
In the late 8th century, Anglo-Saxon Britain faces a threat like none before: northmen from across the seas, also called Vikings. In Vikings Hnefatafl: Kings of the Dark Age, you will be leading either the Vikings or the Saxons into battle by means of turn-based strategy.
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Lalli
Single-player alternative to Galactic Counselors — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Lalli tells the tale of a Finnish folk hero and freedom fighter. In 1240, Finland is invaded by the neighboring Swedish Kingdom, aiming to convert the tribes to Christianity by force. This is when a regular woodsman is forced to adapt into a warrior - and a legend, remembered centuries later.