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Single-player games like Distant Star: Revenant Fleet

Below are 21 single-player Steam games similar to Distant Star: Revenant Fleet, 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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    Crying Suns — Steam game cover

    Crying Suns

    Single-player alternative to Distant Star: Revenant Fleet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Distant Star: Revenant Fleet.

    Crying Suns is a tactical rogue-lite that puts you in the role of a space fleet commander as you explore a mysteriously fallen empire. In this story rich experience inspired by Dune and Foundation, each successful run will uncover the truth about the Empire... and yourself as well.

    2019StrategyIndie24.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    CRYPTARK — Steam game cover

    CRYPTARK

    Single-player alternative to Distant Star: Revenant Fleet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Distant Star: Revenant Fleet.

    Cryptark is a 2D sci-fi shooter where you take on the role of a heavily armed privateer seeking to earn government contracts by boarding deadly alien space-hulks. It's up to you to strategize a plan of attack, pick an equipment loadout, and destroy the central core to be victorious.

    2017ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Void Bastards — Steam game cover

    Void Bastards

    Single-player alternative to Distant Star: Revenant Fleet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Distant Star: Revenant Fleet.

    Inspired by BioShock and System Shock 2, Void Bastards is a revolutionary new strategy-shooter that will test your wits as well as exercise your aim. Can you lead the misfit prisoners of the Void Ark through the derelict spaceships and myriad dangers of the Sargasso Nebula?

    2019ActionStrategy29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    FTL: Faster Than Light — Steam game cover

    FTL: Faster Than Light

    Single-player alternative to Distant Star: Revenant Fleet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Distant Star: Revenant Fleet.

    This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.

    2012StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Deadnaut — Steam game cover

    Deadnaut

    Single-player alternative to Distant Star: Revenant Fleet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Distant Star: Revenant Fleet.

    Deadnaut is Screwfly Studios' second game and follow up to cult hit, Zafehouse: Diaries. Deadnauts, so named because they’re unlikely to return, must explore, investigate and fight their way through the derelict ships of dead civilisations. Every mission is unique and no two locations are the same.

    2014StrategyIndieRPG9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Iron Marines Invasion — Steam game cover

    Iron Marines Invasion

    Single-player alternative to Distant Star: Revenant Fleet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Distant Star: Revenant Fleet.

    Prepare to take off, soldier! The galaxy needs your strategy! Prove your RTS expertise, explore an entire galaxy and defend it from a threatening invasion.

    2023ActionStrategyIndie7.49 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Void Destroyer 2 — Steam game cover

    Void Destroyer 2

    Single-player alternative to Distant Star: Revenant Fleet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Distant Star: Revenant Fleet.

    Start with nothing... End with everything! All you have is a basic ship, barely fit for combat, with it you'll start your journey and empire. A open world space sandbox, inspired by and expanding the classics.

    2020ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Heat Signature — Steam game cover

    Heat Signature

    Single-player alternative to Distant Star: Revenant Fleet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Distant Star: Revenant Fleet.

    Heat Signature is a game from the developers of Gunpoint where you break into spaceships, make terrible mistakes, and think of clever ways out of them. You take a mission, fly to the target ship, sneak inside, and make clever use of your gadgets to distract, ambush and take out the crew.

    2017ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Space Pirates and Zombies — Steam game cover

    Space Pirates and Zombies

    Single-player alternative to Distant Star: Revenant Fleet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Distant Star: Revenant Fleet.

    Explore a randomly generated Galaxy populated with factions, enemies, missions, and items providing you with a unique experience each time you play.

    2011ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Star Wolves — Steam game cover

    Star Wolves

    Single-player alternative to Distant Star: Revenant Fleet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Distant Star: Revenant Fleet.

    Star wolves is a 3D space RPG with deep strategy and tactical elements. The game thrusts players into a world of freelance space hunters in the XXI-XXII century A.D. during a time of political crisis for the all-powerful Empire and the three mega-corporations that control all the known worlds.

    2010StrategyRPG3.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Sonic the Hedgehog 4 - Episode II — Steam game cover

    Sonic the Hedgehog 4 - Episode II

    Single-player alternative to Distant Star: Revenant Fleet — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    The Sonic 4 Saga continues in Episode II with the return of a beloved side kick and fan-favorite villains! Following the events of Episode I, Metal Sonic has returned to form an alliance with Dr. Eggman! To face this new evil, Sonic will have to call upon an old friend to help him save the day!

    2012Adventure4.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Homeworld Remastered Collection — Steam game cover

    Homeworld Remastered Collection

    Single-player alternative to Distant Star: Revenant Fleet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Distant Star: Revenant Fleet.

    Experience the epic space strategy games that redefined the RTS genre. Control your fleet and build an armada across more than 30 single-player missions. Choose unit types, fleet formations and flight tactics for each strategic situation.

    2015StrategySimulation34.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Steam game cover

    The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

    Single-player alternative to Distant Star: Revenant Fleet — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    You are Geralt of Rivia, mercenary monster slayer. Before you stands a war-torn, monster-infested continent you can explore at will. Your current contract? Tracking down Ciri — the Child of Prophecy, a living weapon that can alter the shape of the world.

    2015RPG39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Space Rogue — Steam game cover

    Space Rogue

    Single-player alternative to Distant Star: Revenant Fleet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Distant Star: Revenant Fleet.

    Take on the role of a spaceship captain. Explore new worlds, and engage in intense ship-to-ship battles. Develop unique battle tactics, upgrade your ship, and recruit crew members as you fight for peace or piracy.

    2016StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    SC2VN - The eSports Visual Novel — Steam game cover

    SC2VN - The eSports Visual Novel

    Single-player alternative to Distant Star: Revenant Fleet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Distant Star: Revenant Fleet.

    SC2VN is a visual novel about the South Korean StarCraft 2 scene. You play as Mach, a foreign semi-pro trying to make it in eSports who soon learns that success in StarCraft takes more than in-game strategy.

    2015IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Agatha Christie - Hercule Poirot: The First Cases — Steam game cover

    Agatha Christie - Hercule Poirot: The First Cases

    Single-player alternative to Distant Star: Revenant Fleet — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    Discover an untold crime story from the mysterious youth of the famous detective Hercule Poirot.

    2021Adventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Murderous Pursuits — Steam game cover

    Murderous Pursuits

    Single-player alternative to Distant Star: Revenant Fleet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Distant Star: Revenant Fleet.

    Murderous Pursuits is a kill-or-be-killed Victorian stealth-em-up for 1-8 players in which you must hunt and kill your quarry before your hunters do the same to you, all while avoiding witnesses.

    2018ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Agatha Christie - Hercule Poirot: The London Case — Steam game cover

    Agatha Christie - Hercule Poirot: The London Case

    Single-player alternative to Distant Star: Revenant Fleet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Distant Star: Revenant Fleet.

    Hercule Poirot is back in a brand-new adventure, set in the heart of London.

    2023ActionAdventureSimulation29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Murder Mystery Machine — Steam game cover

    Murder Mystery Machine

    Single-player alternative to Distant Star: Revenant Fleet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Distant Star: Revenant Fleet.

    Join the District Crime Agency in this isometric, modern noir deduction thriller. Explore crime scenes in complex dioramas, organize your evidence effectively, and blur the lines between right and wrong to present your case. Do you have what it takes to be a real detective?

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Takenoko - Tilt Five AR — Steam game cover

    Takenoko - Tilt Five AR

    Single-player alternative to Distant Star: Revenant Fleet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Distant Star: Revenant Fleet.

    Gardeners in imperial Japan have been tasked to see who is worthy of caring for the sacred panda. Cultivate your plots, grow bamboo, and complete objectives in this holographic adaption of the award-winning board game now available for Tilt Five™!

    2023IndieCasualSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Arsene Lupin - Once a Thief — Steam game cover

    Arsene Lupin - Once a Thief

    Single-player alternative to Distant Star: Revenant Fleet — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    Discover the youth of a legend - Experience the transformation of Arsene Lupin, from whimsical thief to legendary hero, in 'Arsene Lupin - Once a Thief', an adventure and investigation game freely adapted from the works of Maurice Leblanc, with its events unfolding in the early 20th century.

    2024Adventure29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →