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Single-player games like Deadlock: Planetary Conquest

Below are 17 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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    Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus — Steam game cover

    Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus

    Single-player alternative to Deadlock: Planetary Conquest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Deadlock: Planetary Conquest.

    MECHANICUS II ANNOUNCED! Take control of one of the most technologically advanced factions in the Imperium: the Adeptus Mechanicus. In this turn-based tactical game, your every decision will weigh heavily on the outcome of the conflict. Will you be blessed by the Omnissiah?

    2018Strategy29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Wasteland 1 - The Original Classic — Steam game cover

    Wasteland 1 - The Original Classic

    Single-player alternative to Deadlock: Planetary Conquest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Deadlock: Planetary Conquest.

    For the first time in over 20 years, we are heralding the return of a much loved piece of gaming history with the classic RPG, Wasteland! Mutants. Again. Even more than there were last time: they seem to materialize out of the very grains of the radioactive desert sand. Venomous yellow eyes.

    2013StrategyIndieAdventure5.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    XCOM: Enemy Unknown — Steam game cover

    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!

    2012Strategy5.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Into the Breach — Steam game cover

    Into the Breach

    Single-player alternative to Deadlock: Planetary Conquest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Deadlock: Planetary Conquest.

    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.

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™ — Steam game cover

    Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™

    Single-player alternative to Deadlock: Planetary Conquest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Deadlock: Planetary Conquest.

    Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth is a new science-fiction-themed entry into the award winning Civilization series. As part of an expedition sent to find a home beyond Earth, lead your people into a new frontier, explore and colonize an alien planet and create a new civilization in space.

    2014Strategy9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    BATTLETECH — Steam game cover

    BATTLETECH

    Single-player alternative to Deadlock: Planetary Conquest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Deadlock: Planetary Conquest.

    Take command of your own mercenary outfit of 'Mechs and the MechWarriors that pilot them, struggling to stay afloat as you find yourself drawn into a brutal interstellar civil war.

    2018ActionStrategyAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    ENDLESS™ Space 2 — Steam game cover

    ENDLESS™ Space 2

    Single-player alternative to Deadlock: Planetary Conquest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Deadlock: Planetary Conquest.

    ENDLESS™ Space 2 is a Strategic Space Opera, featuring the compelling “just one more turn” gameplay, set in the mysterious ENDLESS™ Universe. As the leader of your civilization, will you impose your vision and build the greatest stellar empire?

    2017Strategy39.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut — Steam game cover

    Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut

    Single-player alternative to Deadlock: Planetary Conquest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Deadlock: Planetary Conquest.

    Harebrained Schemes' biggest Shadowrun game to date, and the definitive Shadowrun RPG experience available on PC. Now a standalone title with tons of new content & improvements!

    2014StrategyIndieAdventure3.74 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Duke of Alpha Centauri — Steam game cover

    Duke of Alpha Centauri

    Single-player alternative to Deadlock: Planetary Conquest — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    Duke of Alpha Centuri is a space shooter with amazing graphics. The main goal of our game is to have a lot of fun while blowing up hordes of different types of enemies. Engage in boss fights, upgrade your ship and ship systems until you are able to show off in an endless mode.

    2016ActionIndieCasual29.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Age of Empires: Definitive Edition — Steam game cover

    Age of Empires: Definitive Edition

    Single-player alternative to Deadlock: Planetary Conquest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Deadlock: Planetary Conquest.

    Age of Empires, the pivotal real-time strategy game that launched a 20-year legacy returns with modernized gameplay, all-new 4K visuals, 8-person multiplayer battles and a host of other new features. Welcome back to history.

    2019Strategy19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Мухосранск | Russian City Sim — Steam game cover

    Мухосранск | Russian City Sim

    Single-player alternative to Deadlock: Planetary Conquest — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    The atmosphere of the nuclear wasteland.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Slave Zero — Steam game cover

    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!

    2014Action6.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Redline — Steam game cover

    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.

    2014ActionRacing6.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Les Manley in: Lost in L.A. — Steam game cover

    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.

    2020Adventure6.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Gunboat — Steam game cover

    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.

    2020ActionSimulation6.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Altered Destiny — Steam game cover

    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.

    2020Adventure6.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Psi 5 Trading Company — Steam game cover

    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.

    2020Simulation6.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →