Single-player games like Critical Descent
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Critical Descent, 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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First Parsec
Single-player alternative to Critical Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Critical Descent.
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Stellar Courier
Single-player alternative to Critical Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Critical Descent.
Arcade space shooter. You are a courier with one package to deliver across a broken galaxy. Plane-like flight, fights with pirates, the old army and aliens in a 20+ mission story campaign. Pick your ship and mods between missions. No grind, no filler.
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Only One Burn
Single-player alternative to Critical Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Land the craft without crashing. Oh, and you only get one burn!
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Ionic Drive
Single-player alternative to Critical Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Plan your flight path, execute a perfect flip-and-burn manoeuvre and pray that your hull survives any impact in this space flight simulation/racing game. Can you avoid collision and finish your flight?
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A-Spec First Assault
Single-player alternative to Critical Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Critical Descent.
Fly corvette-class warships. Engage in combat operations against fighters, frigates, cruisers, and more dangerous foes. Choose the ships, weapons, and improvement modules, your group will deploy with. Use tactical command decisions to overcome dangerous encounters with unrelenting enemies.
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Mars Horizon
Single-player alternative to Critical Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Lead a major space agency as you guide humanity to Mars in this strategy simulation game. Construct a base, design and build rockets, conduct missions throughout the Solar System, and write your own history of Space exploration. Created with support from the European Space Agency.
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Final Orbit
Single-player alternative to Critical Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Master the cockpit of highly realistic spacecraft in this Newtonian physics based sim. Take off from surface to space, plot a course between the planets and dock with space stations. Trade commodities or take shipping contracts to buy upgrades and optimize your build - every choice matters.
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Beyond The Cupola: ISS Simulator
Single-player alternative to Critical Descent — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
You are the ISS crew, where the station's fate depends on everyone. Oxygen leaks, system failures, meteorite threats — repair with your own hands and make real-time decisions. Complete missions, perform spacewalks. Experience life in orbit: in space, nothing goes according to plan.