Single-player games like Expedition: Shadow World
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Expedition: Shadow World, 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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Space Alliance: Frontier
Single-player alternative to Expedition: Shadow World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Expedition: Shadow World.
Get ready to protect the entire solar system from an unprecedented threat - the D'Ahari, a race of insect-like aliens. Control an entire fleet of spaceships, trade with other races of an Alliance, and develop your own space station.
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Aliens: Dark Descent
Single-player alternative to Expedition: Shadow World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Expedition: Shadow World.
Drop into the gripping journey of Aliens: Dark Descent, a squad-based, single-player action game in the iconic Alien franchise. Lead your soldiers in real-time to stop a new and terrifying kind of Xenomorph outbreak on Planet Lethe.
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Line Of Defense Tactics - Tactical Advantage
Single-player alternative to Expedition: Shadow World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Expedition: Shadow World.
A real-time strategy combat game based on the world of the Line Of Defense. Command a team of four Galactic Command marines in highly classified missions in space and on planets.
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Swarm Queen
Single-player alternative to Expedition: Shadow World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Expedition: Shadow World.
A quick-to-learn but challenging real-time strategy game where you spawn an army of space-bugs that control themselves.
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CARNAGE OFFERING Tower Defense
Single-player alternative to Expedition: Shadow World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Expedition: Shadow World.
The replicator robots are back! It's 2528. The machines are increasingly infecting the planets with genetically modified monsters. Challenge them and try to stop the onslaught. Upgrade buildings and heroes, mine resources, discover technology and fight to save humanity!
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ReEarth
Single-player alternative to Expedition: Shadow World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Expedition: Shadow World.
ReEarth is an exciting TD & (RTS) indie game. Here, you will play as humanity's last hope. You will fend off the oncoming swarms by continuously building your base and dispatching various types of units. Prepare for the challenge and save the future of humanity!
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Grey Goo
Single-player alternative to Expedition: Shadow World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Expedition: Shadow World.
Fight for control of a frontier world. Gather resources, build your base, and command your forces in battle. Survive long enough to unleash your ultimate weapon - THE EPIC.
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The Red Solstice
Single-player alternative to Expedition: Shadow World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Expedition: Shadow World.
2280 A.D. The last few survivors of a ruined Earth seek a new home: Mars, a planet whose inhabitants didn't take too kindly to outsiders. The Red Solstice is a tense, tactical, squad-based action game. Fight to survive with up to 8 players in co-op, or lead your own squad in single-player mode.