Single-player games like Xenopurge
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Xenopurge, 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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Aliens: Dark Descent
Single-player alternative to Xenopurge — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Xenopurge.
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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Duskers
Single-player alternative to Xenopurge — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Xenopurge.
Pilot drones into derelict spaceships to find the means to survive and piece together how the universe became a giant graveyard.
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Void War
Single-player alternative to Xenopurge — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Xenopurge.
Command an ancient starship and fight your way to the heart of a dying Empire. Fend off attacks from demented cultists, craven space pirates, and xenophobic Imperial soldiers. Discover powerful artifacts and use them to build your ship into a fearsome war engine.
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MENACE
Single-player alternative to Xenopurge — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Xenopurge.
Lead a strike force against an alien threat in this turn-based tactical RPG from the developers of Battle Brothers. Answer distress calls across different worlds, train and equip infantry, deploy tanks and mechs, and plan and execute missions in detailed turn-based battles.
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Deadnaut
Single-player alternative to Xenopurge — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Xenopurge.
Deadnaut is Screwfly Studios' second game and follow up to cult hit, Zafehouse: Diaries. Deadnauts, so named because they’re unlikely to return, must explore, investigate and fight their way through the derelict ships of dead civilisations. Every mission is unique and no two locations are the same.
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Phoenix Point
Single-player alternative to Xenopurge — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Xenopurge.
The acclaimed strategy game from the creator of X-COM. Fight tactical battles on procedural maps against a foe that adapts to your tactics. Manage diplomacy and economy on a global scale. Research, explore, overcome. Now includes Steam Workshop support for mods!
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Nexus - The Jupiter Incident
Single-player alternative to Xenopurge — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Xenopurge.
Ambitious megacorporations monopolize the conquest of space and the colonization of the solar system. At the very edge of the solar system, the companies make a discovery that will shift the technological advantage and upset the balance. And so a new conflict is born: "The Jupiter Incident."
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Welcome Back, Commander
Single-player alternative to Xenopurge — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Xenopurge.
Commander, your strike team is to dive deep into the contaminated city of Sun Stone and get some answers before the mysterious deadly plague spreads . Good luck Commander!
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The Banner Saga
Single-player alternative to Xenopurge — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Xenopurge.
Live through an epic role-playing Viking saga where your strategic choices directly affect your personal journey. Make allies as you travel with your caravan across this stunning yet harsh landscape. Carefully choose those who will help fight a new threat that jeopardizes an entire civilization.
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Space Hulk (Classic)
Single-player alternative to Xenopurge — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Xenopurge.
The legendary Space Hulk returns in this epic turn based strategy game. Set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, an intriguing story of legendary battles and heroic actions unfolds.
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Space Hulk: Tactics (Classic)
Single-player alternative to Xenopurge — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Xenopurge.
Space Hulk: Tactics is a faithful adaptation of the board game Space Hulk, set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, bringing a unique twist to the cult classic formula. Engage in bloody battles as either a squad of Terminator Space Marines or the deadly alien Genestealers.
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Into the Breach
Single-player alternative to Xenopurge — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Xenopurge.
Control powerful mechs from the future to defeat an alien threat. Each attempt to save the world presents a new randomly generated challenge in this turn-based strategy game.
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Alien
Single-player alternative to Xenopurge — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Xenopurge.
Alien is a visual novel exclusively for adults! This story is about a guy who has been dreaming of having sex with an alien woman for a very long time. At some point, this dream comes true and the guy finally fucked an alien woman!
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Homeseek
Single-player alternative to Xenopurge — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Xenopurge.
Homeseek is a post-apocalyptic survival strategy game set on a resource-strapped Earth at the turn of the next century. In a dried-up wasteland where water has become the new gold, every choice you make becomes life or death.
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Hunters Of The Dead
Single-player alternative to Xenopurge — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Xenopurge.
Rescue your fellow Hunters, and with their help locate and destroy Dracula!
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Moribund
Single-player alternative to Xenopurge — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Xenopurge.
Local multiplayer mayhem for 2 to 4 players in a post apocalyptic setting. Invite your friends and straight up murder them. In the game. Not in real life...