Single-player games like Deadlock: Planetary Conquest
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Deadlock: Planetary Conquest, 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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Horizon
Single-player alternative to Deadlock: Planetary Conquest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Deadlock: Planetary Conquest.
Horizon is a turn-based space strategy game of galactic exploration and conquest in which you are in control of humanity’s destiny. You will explore deep space, find new frontiers and discover alien artifacts hidden on long-abandoned planets.
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Sid Meier's Starships
Single-player alternative to Deadlock: Planetary Conquest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Deadlock: Planetary Conquest.
Build and command a fleet of starships and travel between planets as you explore, build, negotiate, and fight to preserve your vision for humanity.
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Stars in Shadow
Single-player alternative to Deadlock: Planetary Conquest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Deadlock: Planetary Conquest.
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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Galactic Civilizations® II: Ultimate Edition
Single-player alternative to Deadlock: Planetary Conquest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Deadlock: Planetary Conquest.
Get the complete GalCiv II saga including Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords, the expansion pack Dark Avatar, and the newest expansion pack Twilight of the Arnor!
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Warhammer 40,000: Sanctus Reach (Classic)
Single-player alternative to Deadlock: Planetary Conquest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Deadlock: Planetary Conquest.
Warhammer 40,000: Sanctus Reach is a 3D turn-based strategy game like you’ve never seen before: fast, immediate, deep, impressive to look at and incredibly fun! Fight through a dark era of carnage and endless war and lead the Space Wolves in a struggle to defend the last bastion of mankind.
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Age of Wonders: Planetfall
Single-player alternative to Deadlock: Planetary Conquest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Deadlock: Planetary Conquest.
Age of Wonders: Planetfall is the new strategy game from Triumph Studios, creators of the critically acclaimed Age of Wonders series, bringing all the exciting tactical turn-based combat and in-depth empire building of its predecessors to space in an all-new, sci-fi setting.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Single-player alternative to Deadlock: Planetary Conquest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Deadlock: Planetary Conquest.
The XCOM: Enemy Unknown - Slingshot Pack is Now Available!
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Master of Orion 3
Single-player alternative to Deadlock: Planetary Conquest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Deadlock: Planetary Conquest.
Experience first-hand the challenges of leading one of 16 different races into unequalled galactic supremacy and face a universe of decisions. Set policies, explore, build, declare war, negotiate - put all these elements into motion to guarantee your place in the annals of space and time.
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Slave Zero
Single-player alternative to Deadlock: Planetary Conquest — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
It's 500 years in the future. Man and machine are virtually one, and the greatest megacity in the world is locked in a brutal war. Your mission: steal the largest, most sophisticated bio-mechanical attack weapon ever designed...and kick some serious ass!
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Redline
Single-player alternative to Deadlock: Planetary Conquest — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
It's 2066 and the world is a different place. While the privileged insiders live in fertile domed cities, the rest of us fight for survival in the wastelands. Rival gangs battle for supremacy, turf control and valuable resources. In order for a young man to succeed he must make the right choices about his future.
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Les Manley in: Lost in L.A.
Single-player alternative to Deadlock: Planetary Conquest — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Someone is kidnapping the hippest stars in Hollywood. Les Manley must scour La La Land – sifting through out-of-work actors, rock stars and gorgeous babes – to unravel the mystery in this point and click adventure.
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Gunboat
Single-player alternative to Deadlock: Planetary Conquest — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
For decades, the U.S. Navy has deployed the river patrol boat (PBR) in the most hostile and claustrophobic type of war: riverine combat. The classic action sim Gunboat lets you fight from all perspectives of your boat's four-man crew in over 20 missions across 3 sweltering combat zones.
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Altered Destiny
Single-player alternative to Deadlock: Planetary Conquest — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
In a classic adventure from Accolade, P.J. Barrett is transported to a bizarre realm of alien mystery. Follow P.J. through a marvelous universe of acid pools and frags, quirls and fluboxes, floaters and wraiths. There's a deep mystery here that only he – with your help – can solve.
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Psi 5 Trading Company
Single-player alternative to Deadlock: Planetary Conquest — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Captain a space freighter on its perilous voyage to deliver vital supplies to the Parvin Frontier! Select your crew, then lead and command their efforts to manage the ship's navigation, engineering, weapons, and more on the fly as crises and obstacles arise in real time.