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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Silent Depth 2: Pacific
Single-player alternative to Silent Service 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Silent Service 2.
Silent Depth 2: Pacific is a lite sub-sim. You enter the Silent Service at the command of a Gato class submarine on War Patrols during World War 2. How long will you survive, and ultimately how much tonnage you sink is down to skill and cunning.
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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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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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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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Crash Dive
Single-player alternative to Silent Service 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Silent Service 2.
WWII tactical submarine combat! Take command of a U-boat prowling the Atlantic in search of enemy convoys to sink. Sneak past the escorts and torpedo the transports. Or surface and use your deck gun in a daring night attack.
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Wolfpack
Single-player alternative to Silent Service 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Silent Service 2.
A crew of players experience the tense atmosphere of a WW2 U-boat, manning the stations in this realistic co-op simulation game. Several crews may play together in a wolfpack, completing missions based on iconic events during the different stages of German U-boat warfare. Solo play included.
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Dangerous Waters
Single-player alternative to Silent Service 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
S.C.S. - Dangerous Waters allows you total control over multiple air, surface, and submarine platforms in a modern-day naval environment. Take direct control of individual crew stations and also plan and execute combined arms naval strategies from a top-down 'Commanders Eye' perspective.
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Cold Waters
Single-player alternative to Silent Service 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Silent Service 2.
Spiritual Successor to the Microprose Classic “Red Storm Rising”.
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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!