Single-player games like Shallow Space
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Shallow Space, 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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Starpoint Gemini Warlords
Single-player alternative to Shallow Space — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shallow Space.
Strategy from the front lines! Starpoint Gemini Warlords combines 3rd person capital spaceship combat with 4X strategy and RPG gameplay elements. Build mighty war fleets and send them into battle or lead them into combat yourself. Become the Warlord and conquer the Gemini system!
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Ceres
Single-player alternative to Shallow Space — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shallow Space.
Take control of a squadron of ships in full 3D space combat. Explore, battle and trade your way through a pirate, machine and monster-infested solar system.
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Void Destroyer 2
Single-player alternative to Shallow Space — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Shallow Space.
Start with nothing... End with everything! All you have is a basic ship, barely fit for combat, with it you'll start your journey and empire. A open world space sandbox, inspired by and expanding the classics.
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Gratuitous Space Battles
Single-player alternative to Shallow Space — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shallow Space.
The first ever auto-battler game, from way back in 2009Who needs backstory? Who needs resource-gathering? Diplomacy is so last year. Gratuitous Space Battles cuts right to the chase of sci-fi strategy games, and deals with large, completely unjustified space battles between huge opposing space fleets.
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Homeworld Remastered Collection
Single-player alternative to Shallow Space — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shallow Space.
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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Stars in Shadow
Single-player alternative to Shallow Space — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Shallow Space.
Stars in Shadow is a turn-based 4X strategy game and a vivid tribute to the genre classics. Compete with alien factions to explore and colonize nearby starsystems, build fleets to defend against rivals, negotiate or conquer them. Win by unifying the galaxy, through diplomacy or force.
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Stellar Warfare
Single-player alternative to Shallow Space — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shallow Space.
Space RTS with base building and ship customization. Personal passion project. More than 200 available ships, weapons and modules to design your fleet with. Contains a small campaign, several single and multiplayer game modes and a coop game mode. Also contains Wave defense!
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Star Ruler 2
Single-player alternative to Shallow Space — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Shallow Space.
Massive scale 4X-RTS set in space. Control hundreds of planets, manipulate galactic politics, research numerous advanced technologies, and command thousands of units and hundreds of planets in your quest for galactic dominance.
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Nexus - The Jupiter Incident
Single-player alternative to Shallow Space — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shallow Space.
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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Homeworld 3
Single-player alternative to Shallow Space — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shallow Space.
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.