Single-player games like CIVIREVIVAL
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to CIVIREVIVAL, 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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New Stars
Single-player alternative to CIVIREVIVAL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with CIVIREVIVAL.
Expand your own galactic empire across new stars, research technologies, and challenge great alien powers in this immersive 4X grand strategy game. Build interstellar colonies, and starbases to gather more resources. Explore a unique galaxy full of secrets, great perils, and limitless possibilities.
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Mandate of Galactic Empires
Single-player alternative to CIVIREVIVAL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with CIVIREVIVAL.
A logistics-focused turn-based space 4X. Govern through Administrative Nodes, connect systems with wormhole infrastructure, assign population to production and research, and expand only as far as your empire can support.
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Shadow Empire
Single-player alternative to CIVIREVIVAL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with CIVIREVIVAL.
Shadow Empire is a deep turn-based 4X wargame with a unique blend of military focus, procedurally generated content and role-playing features. Players take the seat of the supreme ruler of a small nation, with the goal of reconquering a devastated planet.
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Old Stars
Single-player alternative to CIVIREVIVAL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with CIVIREVIVAL.
A fast-paced 4X galaxy you can actually finish. Expand by colonising and besieging rival worlds, wield government powers that bend the rules - freeze enemy fleets, sever hyperlanes, vanish into stealth - and race rivals to claim the galactic core. A grand-strategy empire in an evening, not a month.
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Gemini Wars
Single-player alternative to CIVIREVIVAL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with CIVIREVIVAL.
Take control of a fleet commander returned from exile, rise through the ranks of the United Space Federation forces and join an epic war across the stars.
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Polaris Sector
Single-player alternative to CIVIREVIVAL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with CIVIREVIVAL.
Can anyone build an empire in a place like this? Other factions are naturally suspicious of newcomers and may wage war at the first sign of unidentified craft. Here, a natural death is an uncommon luxury.
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Xenonauts 2
Single-player alternative to CIVIREVIVAL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with CIVIREVIVAL.
Wage a global war of resistance against an alien invasion. Command turn-based tactical battles, build a network of covert bases, directly control your fighter wings, and achieve strategic victory in a simulation of asymmetric warfare against a technologically superior foe.
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Chaos Galaxy 2
Single-player alternative to CIVIREVIVAL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with CIVIREVIVAL.
A turn-based Galaxy totalwar game. Choose one of 12 factions, direct dozens of admirals, control hundreds of warships, mecha and monsters, set up various buildings, study technology, and lead fleets to carry out grand strategic actions on the map of the galaxy.