Single-player games like Day of the Shell
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Day of the Shell, 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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Day of the Shell: Prologue
Single-player alternative to Day of the Shell — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Day of the Shell.
Day of the Shell: Prologue is a “one-click, one-turn” tactical rogue-lite. In a shattered and flooded world, travel from island to island with only hope and a revolver, challenging and appeasing the gods.
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Wintermoor Tactics Club
Single-player alternative to Day of the Shell — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Day of the Shell.
Wintermoor Tactics Club is a story about surviving high school, with gameplay inspired by tactics RPGs and visual novels.
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Into the Breach
Single-player alternative to Day of the Shell — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Day of the Shell.
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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Jagged Alliance 3
Single-player alternative to Day of the Shell — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Day of the Shell.
The country of Grand Chien is thrown into chaos when the elected president goes missing and the paramilitary force known as “the Legion” seizes control. Hire mercs, meet interesting characters, and fight in tactically deep turn-based combat in this true successor to a beloved franchise.
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Gears Tactics
Single-player alternative to Day of the Shell — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Day of the Shell.
Gears Tactics is the fast-paced, turn-based strategy game from one of the most-acclaimed video game franchises – Gears of War. Outnumbered and fighting for survival, recruit and command your squad to hunt down an evil mastermind who makes monsters.
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Hard West
Single-player alternative to Day of the Shell — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Day of the Shell.
When a tragic turn of events sets one man down a path of supernatural chaos and revenge, he must brutally hunt down all those who wronged him. Fight and survive through 8 unique story-based scenarios, and try your hand at 40 individually designed turn-based combat missions
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Othercide
Single-player alternative to Day of the Shell — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Day of the Shell.
As Humanity’s last hope, lead your army to combat in an intricate dance of spectacular actions and counters, using an original Dynamic Timeline System, and face fearsome bosses in epic battles.
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XCOM® 2
Single-player alternative to Day of the Shell — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Day of the Shell.
XCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 award-winning strategy game of the year. Earth has changed and is now under alien rule. Facing impossible odds you must rebuild XCOM, and ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity.
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The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
Single-player alternative to Day of the Shell — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The year is 1962 and the Cold War has the nation gripped by fear. A top-secret government unit called The Bureau begins investigating a series of mysterious attacks by an enemy more powerful than communism.
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Hades
Single-player alternative to Day of the Shell — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash out of the Underworld in this rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre.