Single-player games like Silent Service 2
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Silent Service 2, 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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Tigershark
Single-player alternative to Silent Service 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
2060 A.D. The Red Menace has resurfaced. The Sea Boils with submarines and battlecruisers, blood and oil. The skies are dark with enemy birds. Tigershark has been deployed. A fully-loaded subfoil prototype.
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Morse Depths: WWII
Single-player alternative to Silent Service 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Silent Service 2.
Take command of a WWII submarine. Master Morse Code to fire torpedoes, defuse mines, and survive the final siege. From 1942 to 1945, every dot and dash is the difference between glory and the ocean floor.
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Silent Shark
Single-player alternative to Silent Service 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Silent Service 2.
A tactical, map-based WWII submarine sim set in the Pacific Theater: Approach, intercept, strike unseen, withdraw into the deep. With realistic instruments, a Torpedo Data Computer (TDC), and including a full campaign with missions, patrol zones, radio intel, and more.
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Submarine War
Single-player alternative to Silent Service 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Submarine War is a new action-packed submarine combat game that immerses players in the 3D action with unique game controls and 3D environments.
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Destroyer: The U-Boat Hunter
Single-player alternative to Silent Service 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Silent Service 2.
Destroyer: The U-Boat Hunter brings you an authentic and historically accurate destroyer simulation along with gripping anti-submarine warfare set in the turmoils of the Atlantic Ocean during World War II.
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Sub Command
Single-player alternative to Silent Service 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Take charge of the most deadly modern-day submarines in the world - three distinct submarines across two unique and challenging campaigns. Utilize cutting-edge sensor and weapon technology to locate, track and destroy the enemy - even deliver Tomahawk missiles to inland targets.
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Submarine Titans
Single-player alternative to Silent Service 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Silent Service 2.
Submarine Titans is a real-time strategy video game that takes place in the year 2115 after a comet has struck Earth, driving two human factions, the militant White Sharks and the scientific Black Octopi, to establish underwater bases and fight for dominance over the oceans.
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Silent Hunter® III
Single-player alternative to Silent Service 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Silent Service 2.
The king of submarine simulations returns with an all-new 3D engine, new crew command features, and more realistic WWII naval action than ever before. The movie-like graphics and simple, tension-filled gameplay make this the perfect game for the realism fanatic and the casual gamer.
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X-COM: UFO Defense
Single-player alternative to Silent Service 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
You are in control of X-COM: an organization formed by the world's governments to fight the ever-increasing alien menace.
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Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic)
Single-player alternative to Silent Service 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Silent Service 2.
The New World lies before you with all its peril, promise and infinite possibility. Your colonists anxiously follow you to shore. The treasures of an entire continent await you.
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X-COM: Apocalypse
Single-player alternative to Silent Service 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
There's something evil in the city tonight... Earth has been ravaged by human excess, petty conflict and alien invasion. The world's population has been herded into huge cities, the first of which was Mega Primus. 2084: A Utopia shattered, social collapse and civil unrest reigns in Mega Primus. Fiendish aliens terrorize the city.
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X-COM: Terror From the Deep
Single-player alternative to Silent Service 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The war continues... X-COM: UFO Defense brought you to a galactic battlefield. X-COM: Terror from the Deep brings the alien terror into a totally new dimension.Seeking to take advantage of a weakened Earth, X-COM's deep space foes unexpectedly change strategy and launch a powerful second front against planet Earth.
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X-COM: Enforcer
Single-player alternative to Silent Service 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
X-COM: Earth's top-secret eXtraterrestrial COMbat unit The Place: America - early 21st century The Mission: Eradicate the extraterrestrials Alien forces have invaded Earth and are terrorizing the population.
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X-COM: Interceptor
Single-player alternative to Silent Service 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
They're back...only this time the heinous aliens are out to destroy Earth and rule the new frontier. As X-COM commander, it's your sole duty to protect humanity and the prized mining operations in outer space.
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Sid Meier's Covert Action (Classic)
Single-player alternative to Silent Service 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Silent Service 2.
Sid Meier's Covert Action - A Techno-Thriller From the Case Files of Max Remington.
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Sid Meier's Pirates! Gold Plus (Classic)
Single-player alternative to Silent Service 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Silent Service 2.
Ahoy mateys! From the Mind of Sid Meier, The Golden Age of Buccaneering has returned with Pirates! Gold!