Single-player games like Star Control III
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Star Control III, 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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Star Control I and II
Single-player alternative to Star Control III — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Star Control III.
Explore a vast universe with pulse-pounding action, side-splitting humor, and hair-raising plot twists in these 2 classic space adventure games.
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Steel Graves
Single-player alternative to Star Control III — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Star Control III.
A nervous Action / Strategy / Building game in multiplayer that oppose humans against aliens in huge battlefields. Build your base anywhere, upgrade your equipment, recruit hundreds of IA soldiers, and take part in the greatest intergalactic war.
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Star Control®: Origins
Single-player alternative to Star Control III — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Star Control III.
Star Control is a space role-playing game in which you command Earth's first interstellar starship on a mission to save the Earth from hostile alien empires.
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HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed
Single-player alternative to Star Control III — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Star Control III.
Hypercharge is a first and third-person shooter action figure game you've always dreamed of! Grab your friends, complete objectives, defend the Hypercore against waves of weaponized toys, and defeat Major Evil together in the story campaign!
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XF Extreme Formula
Single-player alternative to Star Control III — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Star Control III.
Race at the speed of sound and beyond in the great XF Extreme Formula championship! Taking place in the year 3000, you will tour trough the solar system proving you’re worthy of the title of champion.
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STAR WARS™ Battlefront
Single-player alternative to Star Control III — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Star Control III.
The STAR WARS™ Battlefront™ Ultimate Edition includes the STAR WARS™ Battlefront™ Deluxe Edition as well as the STAR WARS™ Battlefront™ Season Pass.
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Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
Single-player alternative to Star Control III — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Star Control III.
Embody the superhuman skill and brutality of a Space Marine. Unleash deadly abilities and devastating weaponry to obliterate the relentless Tyranid swarms. Defend the Imperium in spectacular third-person action in solo or multiplayer modes.
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fox soldier
Single-player alternative to Star Control III — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Star Control III.
"FOXSOLDIER"is an action RPG hardcore sci-fi adventure game with multiplayer competition as the core.Only use the left and right buttons of the mouse to operate the 4 action systems of shooting, long sword, kung fu and locomotive.
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Eric The Unready
Single-player alternative to Star Control III — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Star Control III.
Eric the Unready established his reputation by impaling his instructor during jousting class. Then, when Princess Lorealle the Worthy is kidnapped, Eric begins a madcap quest through his hilarious fantasy world packed with horrible beasts!
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Mission Critical
Single-player alternative to Star Control III — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Star Control III.
THE ULTIMATE GAME OF SURVIVAL... The hull of your crippled vessel has ruptured, air is leaking into space, and weapons systems are down. Your mission could have ended fifteen years of interstellar war, but now - as the only remaining crewman - your first order of business is to stay alive...
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Spellcasting Collection
Single-player alternative to Star Control III — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Star Control III.
Steve Meretzky's trilogy of magic-themed collegiate text adventures-with-graphics for Legend. The sometimes-smutty but never-beyond-softcore stories put the player in the shoes of one Ernie Eaglebeak, a wizard-in-training at at Sorcerer University.
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Super Hero League of Hoboken
Single-player alternative to Star Control III — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Star Control III.
The U.S. is a nightmare of toxic waste, melted ice caps, and desperate shortages of oat bran. Horrible mutations roam the countryside. Monsters spawned of radiation, environmental toxins, and unregulated bio-engineering. But a small group of Superheroes band together to the rebirth of a new society.
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Timequest
Single-player alternative to Star Control III — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Star Control III.
Timequest is a classic graphical text-based adventure game of breathtaking scope and astonishing depth. Travel to 80 locations to see the effects of your actions unfold over 3 millennia.