Single-player games like There Came an Echo
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to There Came an Echo, 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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Nexus Defenders
Single-player alternative to There Came an Echo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with There Came an Echo.
Tower Defense meets a Visual Novel narrative. Place an arsenal of towers to halt the invading enemy. Use special abilities such as napalm strikes, EMP blasts, and orbital lasers. A sci-fi space drama, filled with dialogue choices.
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Panzer Strike
Single-player alternative to There Came an Echo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with There Came an Echo.
Authentic RTS gameplay straight out of the 2000s. Command your troops, develop strategies, and win World War II battles. Huge maps, thousands of units, long-range firepower, and no building mechanics!
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Lornsword Winter Chronicle
Single-player alternative to There Came an Echo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with There Came an Echo.
Lornsword Winter Chronicle is a story-driven action strategy game. Be the general on the battlefield and take direct action to command your soldiers and set up your economy. The Lorn Empire counts on you, keep your mind pure and your Lornsword sharp!
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Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive
Single-player alternative to There Came an Echo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with There Came an Echo.
"Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive" is the first strategy game ever to combine a movie-based and story-driven atmosphere of an adventure game with the intellectual challenge of a real time tactic game.In this western-style title, discover a game of strategy and tactics played out in exceptional real time.
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Satellite Reign
Single-player alternative to There Came an Echo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with There Came an Echo.
Satellite Reign is a real-time, class-based strategy game, set in an open-world cyberpunk city. You command a group of 4 agents through rain-soaked, neon-lit streets, where the law is the will of mega-corporations.
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The Red Solstice
Single-player alternative to There Came an Echo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with There Came an Echo.
2280 A.D. The last few survivors of a ruined Earth seek a new home: Mars, a planet whose inhabitants didn't take too kindly to outsiders. The Red Solstice is a tense, tactical, squad-based action game. Fight to survive with up to 8 players in co-op, or lead your own squad in single-player mode.
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Fire Commander
Single-player alternative to There Came an Echo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with There Came an Echo.
See what it means to face the fire. Command a firefighting unit in an exciting tactical RTS. Save lives, manage your water supplies and care for your team in 30+ missions. Be a real hero!
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Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun
Single-player alternative to There Came an Echo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with There Came an Echo.
Shadow Tactics is a hardcore tactical stealth game set in Japan around the Edo period. A new Shogun seizes power over Japan and enforces nationwide peace. In his battle against conspiracy and rebellion, he recruits five specialists with extraordinary skills for assassination, sabotage and espionage.
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Before the Echo
Single-player alternative to There Came an Echo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with There Came an Echo.
Before the Echo combines elements of both rhythm and role-playing games to create an entirely unique experience.
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The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
Single-player alternative to There Came an Echo — 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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XCOM® 2
Single-player alternative to There Came an Echo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with There Came an Echo.
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 Sequence]
Single-player alternative to There Came an Echo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with There Came an Echo.
[the Sequence] is a logic construction puzzler.Let your mind be your guide: Lay down seven different kinds of modules as your roadblocks to get you (portrayed as a binary data point) to a sweet destination.Apply an out-of-the-box thinking to get you to the next level!
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People of Note
Single-player alternative to There Came an Echo — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
In this turn-based RPG musical, join Cadence as she recruits an ensemble of musicians on her quest for stardom. Experience turn-based combat like never before, where each battle is a musical performance with evolving combat conditions and genre-bending mashup attacks!