Single-player games like Devouring Stars
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Devouring Stars, 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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Particle Fleet: Emergence
Single-player alternative to Devouring Stars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Devouring Stars.
Build and design your own fleets and stand opposed to the Particulate in this physics/strategy/RTS/fleet hybrid. Build partially destructible and self repairing ships that interact with enemies less controlled by some scripted logic and more driven by a real time massive physics particle simulation.
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Conflicks - Revolutionary Space Battles
Single-player alternative to Devouring Stars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Devouring Stars.
Spaceships, lasers, and… chickens! What more could you ask for?Conflicks: Revolutionary Space Battles is a creative new take on space-themed videogames that merges the deep, thoughtful gameplay of strategy games with the intuitive accessibility of physics-based games.
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Stars in Shadow
Single-player alternative to Devouring Stars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Devouring Stars.
Stars in Shadow is a turn-based 4X strategy game and a vivid tribute to the genre classics. Compete with alien factions to explore and colonize nearby starsystems, build fleets to defend against rivals, negotiate or conquer them. Win by unifying the galaxy, through diplomacy or force.
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Ceres
Single-player alternative to Devouring Stars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Devouring Stars.
Take control of a squadron of ships in full 3D space combat. Explore, battle and trade your way through a pirate, machine and monster-infested solar system.
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Distant Worlds: Universe
Single-player alternative to Devouring Stars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Devouring Stars.
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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Auralux: Constellations
Single-player alternative to Devouring Stars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Devouring Stars.
Auralux: Constellations is the awaited sequel to Auralux, the critically acclaimed minimalistic Real Time Strategy game. Explore a dozen new gameplay mechanics through each constellation, one new feature at a time. It's Real-Time Strategy, deconstructed.
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Stellar Warfare
Single-player alternative to Devouring Stars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Devouring Stars.
Space RTS with base building and ship customization. Personal passion project. More than 200 available ships, weapons and modules to design your fleet with. Contains a small campaign, several single and multiplayer game modes and a coop game mode. Also contains Wave defense!
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Anomaly Defenders
Single-player alternative to Devouring Stars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Devouring Stars.
Anomaly Defenders is the closing installment of the Anomaly series. The original incarnation of the Tower Offense sub-genre had players controlling humans fighting alien invaders. Now, the tables have turned. The human counterattack is underway and the alien homeworld is under threat.
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Reigns
Single-player alternative to Devouring Stars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Devouring Stars.
Sit on the throne as a benevolent (or malevolent) medieval monarch of the modern age and swipe your royal controller either left or right to impose your will upon the kingdom.
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Card Shark
Single-player alternative to Devouring Stars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Devouring Stars.
Card Shark is an adventure game full of cunning, intrigue, and delectable deceit. Enter a world where you’ll need to play your opponents better than you play your cards.
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Reigns: Her Majesty
Single-player alternative to Devouring Stars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Devouring Stars.
Reigns: Her Majesty is the revolutionary follow-up to the smash swipe ‘em up hit Reigns.
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Reigns: Game of Thrones
Single-player alternative to Devouring Stars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Devouring Stars.
Reigns: Game of Thrones is the heir to the award-winning HBO® TV series Game of Thrones® and the smash-hit swipe ‘em up series Reigns from Nerial and Devolver Digital.
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The Crush House
Single-player alternative to Devouring Stars — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Film and produce 1999's hottest reality TV show: The Crush House! Select a crush-worthy cast, satisfy voracious audiences and keep the show on air to uncover the sinister secrets behind this darkly comic thirst-person shooter.
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Reigns: Three Kingdoms
Single-player alternative to Devouring Stars — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Swipe through military negotiations, marry to strengthen alliances and recruit soldiers to fight in turn-based card battles in this historical epic.
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Orwell's Animal Farm
Single-player alternative to Devouring Stars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Devouring Stars.
Orwell’s Animal Farm is a text-based choice-driven narrative game where all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. Immerse yourself in George Orwell's story of absolute power and corruption and follow the ups and downs of Animalism.
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Reigns: The Witcher
Single-player alternative to Devouring Stars — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Adventure as Geralt through the ballads of Dandelion. Swipe right, swipe left, seek glory, find death! Will you hunt monsters, upset the locals, or run a hot bath? Compose an inspiring epic to claim immortality.