Single-player games like Solar War
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Solar War, 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.
Want the full alternatives list (paid + free + Steam Deck + cheaper picks)? See the parent games like Solar War page.
Ranked picks
- 1
Polaris Sector
Single-player alternative to Solar War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Solar War.
Can anyone build an empire in a place like this? Other factions are naturally suspicious of newcomers and may wage war at the first sign of unidentified craft. Here, a natural death is an uncommon luxury.
- 2
Stellar Sovereigns
Single-player alternative to Solar War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Solar War.
Indie 4X space strategy game with TB empire management and RTS combat set in a 3D star cluster. Build an interstellar empire by colonizing and conquering star systems, develop your colonies establish trade routes and construct fleets from a range of retrofittable capital & escort class vessels.
- 3
Seres Universalis:Three Kingdoms
Single-player alternative to Solar War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Solar War.
Return to the Three Kingdoms period. On the grand strategic tactical battlefield, use terrain for defense setup and resource allocation to shift the battle situation. Control the war via hexagonal grid movement and tactical ability activation, and unify the realm.
- 4
The Last Federation
Single-player alternative to Solar War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Solar War.
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.
- 5
Stellar Industrialist
Single-player alternative to Solar War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Solar War.
You are neither a general nor a soldier — you are a Stellar Industrialist. To you, peace is nothing but shutdowns and losses. Venture to the frontlines, strip battlefields for wreckage and salvage, turn spoils into resources, and expand your interstellar arms empire.
- 6
Lord of Rigel
Single-player alternative to Solar War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Solar War.
Lord of Rigel is a turn-based 4X space strategy game inspired by the classics. In a galaxy divided by two elder races, will you unite with other species or forge your own path? Navigate galactic politics and defeat threats using espionage, research, and military force. How will you shape the galaxy?
- 7
New Stars
Single-player alternative to Solar War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Solar War.
Expand your own galactic empire across new stars, research technologies, and challenge great alien powers in this immersive 4X grand strategy game. Build interstellar colonies, and starbases to gather more resources. Explore a unique galaxy full of secrets, great perils, and limitless possibilities.
- 8
Europa Universalis IV
Single-player alternative to Solar War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Solar War.
Rule your land and dominate the world with unparalleled freedom, depth and historical accuracy. Write a new history of the world and build an empire for the ages.
- 9
Xenonauts
Single-player alternative to Solar War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Solar War.
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.
- 10
Master of Orion 2
Single-player alternative to Solar War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Solar War.
Forge an empire in a universe where population growth is stripping away planetary resources. Colonize unknown planets and trade with other races for their knowledge.
- 11
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
Single-player alternative to Solar War — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The year is 1962 and the Cold War has the nation gripped by fear. A top-secret government unit called The Bureau begins investigating a series of mysterious attacks by an enemy more powerful than communism.
- 12
XCOM® 2
Single-player alternative to Solar War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Solar War.
XCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 award-winning strategy game of the year. Earth has changed and is now under alien rule. Facing impossible odds you must rebuild XCOM, and ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity.