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Single-player games like Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy

Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy, 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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    Battlestar Galactica Deadlock — Steam game cover

    Battlestar Galactica Deadlock

    Single-player alternative to Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.

    In Battlestar Galactica Deadlock™ you’ll take command of the Colonial Fleet in defense of the Twelve Colonies during the First Cylon War. Lead many different types of ships in this 3D tactical game. Every decision counts, your strategy will be vital – can you ensure mankind’s survival?

    2017StrategyDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Horizon — Steam game cover

    Horizon

    Single-player alternative to Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.

    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.

    2014StrategyIndieAdventure29.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Xenonauts — Steam game cover

    Xenonauts

    Single-player alternative to Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.

    Xenonauts is a strategy game in which you control a multi-national military organisation defending a Cold War-era Earth from alien invasion, using small squads of persistent soldiers to eliminate the extraterrestrials and recover their technology in turn-based ground combat.

    2014StrategyIndieSimulation24.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon (Classic) — Steam game cover

    Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon (Classic)

    Single-player alternative to Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.

    In this hex-based, turn-based strategy game, players will lead the Imperial forces of the Armageddon Steel Legion and Space Marines from a variety of Chapters against the Ork invasion through over 30 scenarios, on the hostile terrain of the planet and its gigantic Hive Cities.

    2014Strategy19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Concealed Intent — Steam game cover

    Concealed Intent

    Single-player alternative to Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.

    Concealed Intent is a simultaneous turn-based game of tactical space combat. Players control their ships in a fully 3D world - hunting down their enemies, just as they are being hunted themselves. In Concealed Intent you know your enemies are out there, but not exactly where, or even what they are.

    2016StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Last Federation — Steam game cover

    The Last Federation

    Single-player alternative to Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.

    From the creators of AI War: Fleet Command comes an all-new grand strategy title with turn-based tactical combat, set in a deep simulation of an entire solar system and its billions of inhabitants. You are the last of a murdered race, determined to unify or destroy the 8 others.

    2014StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Pandora: First Contact — Steam game cover

    Pandora: First Contact

    Single-player alternative to Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.

    Pandora: First Contact is a science fiction 4X turn-based strategy game on a planetary scale. Our Earth has been exhausted and colonial attempts on other planetary bodies have been in vain. Finally, after decades of exploration, an interstellar probe has brought promise of a new world.

    2014StrategySimulation29.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Into the Breach — Steam game cover

    Into the Breach

    Single-player alternative to Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.

    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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    Master of Orion — Steam game cover

    Master of Orion

    Single-player alternative to Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.

    The ascendant spacefaring 4X strategy game returns! A new chapter in the epic Master of Orion saga is poised to once again capture the imaginations of millions of gamers.

    2016Strategy24.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    StarDrive — Steam game cover

    StarDrive

    Single-player alternative to Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.

    As a space bear, human or any other race, venture forth into the galaxy, create custom ships, conquer new worlds, build new colonies and defend your very existence against those who would take what is yours.

    2013StrategyIndie29.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Sword of the Stars: The Pit — Steam game cover

    Sword of the Stars: The Pit

    Single-player alternative to Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.

    A fun, fast, light-hearted, turn-based RPG, where the tradition of old school dungeon-diving games meets the sci-fi Sword of the Stars universe!

    2013StrategyIndieRPG9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Space Ranger VR — Steam game cover

    Space Ranger VR

    Single-player alternative to Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.

    Space Combat in virtual reality in single player mission campaign and multiplayer dogfight up to 6 players with AI spaceships under the command of each player. Play in TDM, Conquest or Capital Domination Modes.

    2020SimulationEarly Access19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Star Wolves — Steam game cover

    Star Wolves

    Single-player alternative to Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.

    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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    Homeworld Remastered Collection — Steam game cover

    Homeworld Remastered Collection

    Single-player alternative to Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.

    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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    X-COM: UFO Defense — Steam game cover

    X-COM: UFO Defense

    Single-player alternative to Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy.

    You are in control of X-COM: an organization formed by the world's governments to fight the ever-increasing alien menace.

    2008Strategy4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    STAR WARS™ - X-Wing Alliance™ — Steam game cover

    STAR WARS™ - X-Wing Alliance™

    Single-player alternative to Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    A neutral family fights for its business - and its survival - and is swept up in the struggle against the encroaching Empire. You must defy the strong-arm tactics of a rival family who will stop at nothing to destroy your trading company.

    2015Action2.49 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →