Single-player games like The Long Journey Home
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to The Long Journey Home, 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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Trigon: Space Story
Single-player alternative to The Long Journey Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Long Journey Home.
Trigon: Space Story sees you take command of your very own spaceship. Carry out tactical battles, defend your vessel against space pirates, and escape from enemy territory. On your voyages, you’ll face a slew of tricky decisions in your quest to uncover the mystery of the galaxy.
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Void War
Single-player alternative to The Long Journey Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Long Journey Home.
Command an ancient starship and fight your way to the heart of a dying Empire. Fend off attacks from demented cultists, craven space pirates, and xenophobic Imperial soldiers. Discover powerful artifacts and use them to build your ship into a fearsome war engine.
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Deadnaut
Single-player alternative to The Long Journey Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Long Journey Home.
Deadnaut is Screwfly Studios' second game and follow up to cult hit, Zafehouse: Diaries. Deadnauts, so named because they’re unlikely to return, must explore, investigate and fight their way through the derelict ships of dead civilisations. Every mission is unique and no two locations are the same.
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Duskers
Single-player alternative to The Long Journey Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Long Journey Home.
Pilot drones into derelict spaceships to find the means to survive and piece together how the universe became a giant graveyard.
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Shortest Trip to Earth
Single-player alternative to The Long Journey Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Long Journey Home.
Shortest Trip to Earth is a roguelike spaceship simulator focused on exploration, ship management and tactical battles. Embark on a perilous journey across the universe with nuclear missiles, armed crew and a cat.
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FTL: Faster Than Light
Single-player alternative to The Long Journey Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Long Journey Home.
This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.
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Dungeon of the ENDLESS™
Single-player alternative to The Long Journey Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Long Journey Home.
Dungeon of the ENDLESS™ is a Rogue-Like Dungeon-Defense game, in which the player and their team of heroes must protect the generator of their crashed ship while exploring an ever-expanding dungeon, all while facing waves of monsters and special events as they try to find their way out...
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Void Tyrant
Single-player alternative to The Long Journey Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with The Long Journey Home.
Collect an intergalactic bounty of eccentric allies and deadly weapons, explore vibrant planets, and engage in risky turn-based battles to restore the Eyes of Chronos and save the galaxy in this strategic roguelike deckbuilder!
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Out There: Ω Edition
Single-player alternative to The Long Journey Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Long Journey Home.
Out There is an award-winning space exploration game blending roguelike, resource management and interactive fiction.
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PARADOX
Single-player alternative to The Long Journey Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Long Journey Home.
PARADOX is a puzzle-platformer about time traveling and avoiding paradoxes.