Single-player games like Ballad of Solar
Below are 21 single-player Steam games similar to Ballad of Solar, 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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The Promised Land
Single-player alternative to Ballad of Solar — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Ballad of Solar.
The Promised Land, a brave new world , the hole nation – all this lies in your hands! Become a true leader, a chosen one, a father of nation! Guide your colony to the victory of the modern superpower! We collected all the best that is in games of this genre, arched by exciting mini-games and carefully turned it into the deep and...
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Stone Rebellion
Single-player alternative to Ballad of Solar — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Ballad of Solar.
Lead the Stone Elementals in a fight for survival. Build and grow a thriving city, gather resources, craft powerful equipment, and prepare your warriors for challenging nightly battles as you defend your civilization in a hostile world.
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Maggie's Movies - Second Shot
Single-player alternative to Ballad of Solar — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Ballad of Solar.
Become a movie director and help Maggie survive her second shot at fame, as she directs her first feature-length pirate movie!
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Medicus
Single-player alternative to Ballad of Solar — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Ballad of Solar.
Step into the role of a medieval medicus! Manage your own medieval potion shop! Craft potions, serve customers, expand your workspace, and grow your reputation in a relaxing isometric simulation with strategic resource management.
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12 Labours of Hercules XVII: Feathered Fury
Single-player alternative to Ballad of Solar — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Ballad of Solar.
Help Hercules stop a comet from destroying Earth! Explore Aztec temples, solve puzzles, and meet the legendary Quetzalcoatl!
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Flesh Grinding
Single-player alternative to Ballad of Solar — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Ballad of Solar.
Grind flesh. Gather blood. Upgrade. A first-person incremental horror game where you manage a macabre basement. Buy dark upgrades, boost your efficiency, and push your machinery to the limit while avoiding the terrifying entity that watches your every move.
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12 Labours of Hercules II: The Cretan Bull
Single-player alternative to Ballad of Solar — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Ballad of Solar.
Accompany Hercules in his quest for the Cretan Bull!
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Hermes: Tricks of Thanatos
Single-player alternative to Ballad of Solar — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Ballad of Solar.
Someone has thrown open the Gates of Hell and is letting the damned escape into the realm of the living! Battle malevolent spirits, call on demigods to provide aid and restore life to a besieged world!
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Roads of Rome
Single-player alternative to Ballad of Solar — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Ballad of Solar.
Advance into the unknown territories full of secrets and dangers. Expand the famous road system to the far corners of mighty Roman Empire in this blend of casual strategy, sim and time management genres!
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Rescue Team
Single-player alternative to Ballad of Solar — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Ballad of Solar.
Control the rescue workers who rebuild three islands in the wake of devastating weather! Repair damaged restaurants, houses, and sawmills to produce necessary resources. Race against the clock to collect gems, put out fires, and save stranded swimmers!
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12 Labours of Hercules
Single-player alternative to Ballad of Solar — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Ballad of Solar.
Accompany Hercules on a quest to rescue his wife, kidnapped by the evil Hades in 12 Labours of Hercules! You'll meet heroes from Ancient Greece as you vanquish beasts, repair roads and construct wonders in this stunning Time Management game!
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Northern Tale
Single-player alternative to Ballad of Solar — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Ballad of Solar.
A beautiful legend filled with magic, bravery and amazing adventures!
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Northern Tales 6: Oath to the Gods Collector's Edition
Single-player alternative to Ballad of Solar — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Ballad of Solar.
Ragnar the great Viking king continues his journey. Now he needs to return home after a long wandering. However, new adventures lie ahead. Who knows what new dangers may lie in wait for Ragnar and the party on the way to the house.
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Wall World
Single-player alternative to Ballad of Solar — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Ballad of Solar.
Explore the mysterious Wall World on your giant robospider: mine for valuable resources, upgrade your equipment to fight off hordes of monsters, and discover exotic biomes in-between attacks. Will you be able to survive and learn the secrets of the Wall World?
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Necrosmith
Single-player alternative to Ballad of Solar — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Ballad of Solar.
A necromancer simulator. Assemble the dead using different body parts while upgrading your tower, combine the abilities of the different fantastic races to fight your way through the hordes of enemies and overrun the ’chosen ones’. To tell the truth, the dead are pretty, uhm, dumb.
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Beholder: Conductor
Single-player alternative to Ballad of Solar — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Ballad of Solar.
A Beholder series spin-off. Become a conductor of the Determination Bringer train: monitor passengers, report incidents, and carry out important Ministry assignments — whose level of secrecy depends only on your loyalty. And remember: mission success is very important to you!
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Karate Survivor
Single-player alternative to Ballad of Solar — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Ballad of Solar.
Become a martial arts master in this survivor-like roguelite inspired by action movies of the ‘80s. Use your fists, feet, and the environment to fight off relentless thugs. Master powerful combos, enhance your skills, and remember: everything around you is a weapon!
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Wall World 2
Single-player alternative to Ballad of Solar — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Ballad of Solar.
The adventure in the mysterious world of the Wall continues! Pilot your robospider into its depths, uncover lost artifacts and technologies, upgrade your exosuit and spider, and battle the horrors lurking in the dark. Unravel the mysteries buried in the depths of the Wall!
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Necrosmith 2
Single-player alternative to Ballad of Solar — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Ballad of Solar.
Like a dead man reanimated by dark sorcery, the necromancer simulator is back! Give the undead the ability to fly over mountains and swim across rivers, explore a fully generated world at night and fend off enemy hordes during the day. Start a new, uhm, life.
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They Always Run
Single-player alternative to Ballad of Solar — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Ballad of Solar.
Become Aiden, a three-armed mutant who hunts the most dangerous bounties in the galaxy. Catch, slice, dice and destroy enemies in this exciting 2D platformer with a space-western setting.
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The Happy Hereafter
Single-player alternative to Ballad of Solar — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Ballad of Solar.
Welcome to The Happy Hereafter, a casual sim in which you guide the newly dead as they build an afterlife for themselves and their fellow lost souls. There will be no rest for the wickedly funny as you put them to work building a village to rival Paradise!