Single-player games like Ceres
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Ceres, 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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It's Not A Moon
Single-player alternative to Ceres — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Ceres.
Manage a space station, flying through a procedually generated universe, fight, build and survive in the coldness of space.
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Stellaris
Single-player alternative to Ceres — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ceres.
Explore a galaxy full of wonders in this sci-fi grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studios. Interact with diverse alien races, discover strange new worlds with unexpected events and expand the reach of your empire. Each new adventure holds almost limitless possibilities.
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Battlevoid: Harbinger
Single-player alternative to Ceres — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Ceres.
Battlevoid: Harbinger is a hard sci-fi space exploration game blending roguelike, turn-based, star map strategy, and real-time space battles. You are a young commander venturing out into enemy territories, to unknown galaxies, never knowing what you will face as you jump out from hyperspace.
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Battlevoid: Sector Siege
Single-player alternative to Ceres — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Ceres.
Battlevoid: Sector Siege is an epic straight into action real-time space strategy game, in which the world has been built to deliver a lively battle field; and the action is never more than just seconds away at the start of every game.
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Voidship: The Long Journey
Single-player alternative to Ceres — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Ceres.
Design your battleship and fight your way through unforgiving space. This is a tale of a lone spaceship on a centuries-long mission. As the captain, you´ll make strategic decisions, explore unknown sectors, meet allies and enemies, gather resources, technology and crew. To battle stations!
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Distant Worlds: Universe
Single-player alternative to Ceres — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ceres.
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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The Last Federation
Single-player alternative to Ceres — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ceres.
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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Dawn of Andromeda
Single-player alternative to Ceres — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ceres.
Dawn of Andromeda is a pausable, real-time 4X space strategy game providing an accessible, fun and immersive experience, introducing fresh ideas to the genre. Build your empire, colonize new planets, interact with other factions and characters, research technologies and build great fleets.
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Nexus - The Jupiter Incident
Single-player alternative to Ceres — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ceres.
Ambitious megacorporations monopolize the conquest of space and the colonization of the solar system. At the very edge of the solar system, the companies make a discovery that will shift the technological advantage and upset the balance. And so a new conflict is born: "The Jupiter Incident."
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Star Wolves
Single-player alternative to Ceres — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Ceres.
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.
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Commander Cool 2
Single-player alternative to Ceres — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ceres.
Commander Cool 2 is a four player local coop retro-styled adventure that is destined to be one of coolest game in 2015!
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Homeworld Remastered Collection
Single-player alternative to Ceres — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ceres.
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.
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Independence War™ Deluxe Edition
Single-player alternative to Ceres — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Ceres.
A guerilla war has been raging in space for centuries. Human colonies are breaking away from Earth's control, declaring independence from the Commonwealth. As a Commonwealth Navy commander, your mission is to stop the Indie rebels and their attacks of terror and random piracy.