Single-player games like Solar War
Below are 11 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.
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Ranked picks
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Terra Invicta
Single-player alternative to Solar War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Solar War.
An alien invasion has fractured humanity into seven ideological factions each with a unique vision for the future. Lead your chosen faction to take control of Earth’s nations, expand across the Solar System, and battle enemy fleets in tactical combat.
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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.
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Distant Worlds: Universe
Single-player alternative to Solar War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Solar War.
Distant Worlds is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game. Experience the full depth and detail of turn-based strategy, but with the simplicity and ease of real-time, and on the scale of a massively-multiplayer online game.
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Unending Galaxy
Single-player alternative to Solar War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Solar War.
Unending Galaxy is a unique space-sim in which you can fill any role from pirate or trader to the leader of a large galactic empire.
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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.
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Shadow Empire
Single-player alternative to Solar War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Solar War.
Shadow Empire is a deep turn-based 4X wargame with a unique blend of military focus, procedurally generated content and role-playing features. Players take the seat of the supreme ruler of a small nation, with the goal of reconquering a devastated planet.
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Horizon
Single-player alternative to Solar War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Solar War.
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.
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Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War
Single-player alternative to Solar War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Solar War.
Warhammer 40,000: Gladius – Relics of War brings you to a world of terror and violence. Four factions will engage in a brutal war for dominance over the planet’s resources. In the first turn-based 4X strategy game set in Warhammer 40,000 you will lead one of four unique factions.
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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.
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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.
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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.