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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Pixel: ru²
Single-player alternative to Devouring Stars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Devouring Stars.
Play as a pixel adventuring through image files in a digital world where physics aren't constant. Run, jump, flip upside down, and rotate your gravity. Use weapons to destroy other pixels before they destroy you. Collect bits of data from challenging locations to find out why your world must survive at all costs.
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DG2: Defense Grid 2
Single-player alternative to Devouring Stars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Devouring Stars.
Great strategy is timeless. Build, adapt, and defend across dynamic maps, solo or online - every session brings new strategies, new solutions, and new surprises. Now is the perfect time to enter the grid.
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Lords of the Black Sun
Single-player alternative to Devouring Stars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Devouring Stars.
Take command of one race to join the struggle for supremacy in the galaxy. As the leader of your empire you are tasked with exploring the stars, colonizing new worlds, managing your empire and conquering whoever dares to oppose you.
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Bionic Dues
Single-player alternative to Devouring Stars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Devouring Stars.
Bionic Dues is a tactical, turn-based roguelite with mech customization. Out-think wide-ranging tactical situations featuring robots with bad GPS, terrible aim, insecurity, a lack of focus, a tendency to backstab, and dozens of other maladies to exploit.
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Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark
Single-player alternative to Devouring Stars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Devouring Stars.
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark is a turn-based tactical RPG with a focus on storytelling and strategic battles. Unfold a mature story as you progress through hand-crafted scenarios, controlling your own group of Arbiters, with each character customizable from a wide selection of classes and abilities!
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Fallen: A2P Protocol
Single-player alternative to Devouring Stars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Devouring Stars.
A post-apocalyptic, turn based, tactical combat and strategy game where you lead your caravan on a quest for revenge.
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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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Hard West
Single-player alternative to Devouring Stars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Devouring Stars.
When a tragic turn of events sets one man down a path of supernatural chaos and revenge, he must brutally hunt down all those who wronged him. Fight and survive through 8 unique story-based scenarios, and try your hand at 40 individually designed turn-based combat missions
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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.