Single-player games like Frontier Control : Invasion
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Frontier Control : Invasion, 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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Cosmic Robots
Single-player alternative to Frontier Control : Invasion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Frontier Control : Invasion.
Defend your planet from waves of robot invaders! Build powerful turrets, upgrade your defenses, and command robot units to fight drones, tanks, and massive bosses. Then send your own forces to attack the enemy planet in this action-packed sci-fi tower defense game.
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CastleOn Scriptum
Single-player alternative to Frontier Control : Invasion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Frontier Control : Invasion.
Build a castle and defend it from your enemies! Construct towers, place traps, train and command units in this historical, manuscript-themed mix of Tower Defense and classical Real Time Strategy.
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BELTFED - Roguelike Factory Defense
Single-player alternative to Frontier Control : Invasion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Frontier Control : Invasion.
You are a rogue AI with one directive: AUTOMATE DEATH. Shred, burn and vaporize overwhelming swarms of ravenous bugs as your part factory, part war machine lays waste to one world after another. In BELTFED, the factory is your weapon.
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Voxel Dynasties
Single-player alternative to Frontier Control : Invasion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Frontier Control : Invasion.
Lead a civilization from the first stone tool to the atomic bomb in one match. A voxel RTS where every block can break, fortresses fall block by block, and you can jump into any unit in third person mid-battle. Real AI, 8-player multiplayer, one developer.
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Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware
Single-player alternative to Frontier Control : Invasion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Frontier Control : Invasion.
Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware is a free prequel to the original game. In a medieval fantasy world, you are to build settlements, raise huge armies, and defend against massive hordes of enemies. Learn how Ironbrow clan shaped the world's map the first time - if you survive, that is.
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Project Tomorrow
Single-player alternative to Frontier Control : Invasion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Frontier Control : Invasion.
A base-building survival game with terraforming and crafting. Earth lies poisoned and abandoned ten thousand years after invasion. Awaken from stasis, defend your fragile foothold, and restore a dead world so humanity can live here again.
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Cold Steel
Single-player alternative to Frontier Control : Invasion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Frontier Control : Invasion.
A classic RTS with a major twist. Your units are fully autonomous drones. Every unit runs code which you design using an intuitive visual coding interface. Automate everything from mining, to combat, even unit production.
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STEEL PHANTOMS
Single-player alternative to Frontier Control : Invasion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Frontier Control : Invasion.
A modern military RTS. Command one of three armies - real tanks, drones, rocket artillery, and mobile AA. Cloak past defenses, hose drones with flak, rain ballistic strikes, and crush the enemy base. Battle friends online or skirmish vs AI. Tactics over twitch.
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Libe
Single-player alternative to Frontier Control : Invasion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Frontier Control : Invasion.
Libe is a puzzle game in which once you start moving you can't stop until you hit a wall. Playing as a sentinel, you're falling short on energy and you need to collect energy prisms to get your power back to fight darkness.
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SMYS : Show Me Your Stairs
Single-player alternative to Frontier Control : Invasion — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Frontier Control : Invasion.
SMYS is a 2-4 player local-multiplayer party game. Challenge your friends in this building race to the top! Gather blocks in various minigames and then use them to build your stairs as fast as possible, use your special items wisely to disturb your friends' minds and reach the objective first.