Single-player games like Launch!
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Launch!, 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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Mandate Order
Single-player alternative to Launch! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Launch!.
Mandate Order is a Warring States war city-builder set in ancient China. Build a stronghold, manage industries and logistics, recruit scholars from the Hundred Schools of Thought, raise armies, and command real-time tactical battles with thousands of soldiers.
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Empires of Black Powder
Single-player alternative to Launch! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Launch!.
It’s the Napoleonic era, and you must build the battlefield you fight on. Send Pioneers to gather supplies, expand the local town, and prepare your defenses. Command companies in formation, keep your veterans alive, and carry their experience and upgrades into the next battle.
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EscortMission
Single-player alternative to Launch! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Launch!.
The world’s most vital energy‑shipping chokepoint has been blockaded. You take off in a helicopter from a destroyer to carry out escort missions. Your objective is to neutralize sea mines and repel suicide unmanned boats and drones.
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Sir, We Have an Orc Problem
Single-player alternative to Launch! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Launch!.
Sir, We Have an Orc Problem is an incremental-style tower defense game where you face an overwhelming number of orcs. Greet them with even more bullets, bombs and lasers!
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Legacy of Sail
Single-player alternative to Launch! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Launch!.
As a 17th Century Admiral, send your squadrons out to capture enemy towns and sink their ships. Force boarding actions to capture their prized Ships of the Line all while balancing the need for supplies, repairs and upgrading your crew in this throwback real time tactics naval combat game
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Tabletop Tavern
Single-player alternative to Launch! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Launch!.
Tabletop Tavern is a roguelike RTS where you build an army from scratch and command them across a brutal campaign. Recruit diverse units, create devastating synergies, and make tactical choices that shape the fate of every run.
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Silent Shark
Single-player alternative to Launch! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Launch!.
A tactical, map-based WWII submarine sim set in the Pacific Theater: Approach, intercept, strike unseen, withdraw into the deep. With realistic instruments, a Torpedo Data Computer (TDC), and including a full campaign with missions, patrol zones, radio intel, and more.
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The Legend of Mala Tokmachka
Single-player alternative to Launch! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Launch!.
Build, expand, and arm a towering 2D fortress to withstand endless waves of ground and air attacks. Set in a nameless frontier village where a siege has lasted so long it became a legend, "The Legend of Mala Tokmachka" turns survival into myth.
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Unknot the Maze
Single-player alternative to Launch! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Launch!.
Unknot the Maze is a turn-based RPG woven with physics-driven puzzles. Drag the rope to unleash magic. Use knots to restrain enemies, change routes, and trigger devices. Surreal visuals depict geometric labyrinths and tactile rope. Different knots alter combat and puzzle outcomes.
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Keeping Up
Single-player alternative to Launch! — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Launch!.
Keeping Up is a multi-window time-management roguelite set on a retro computer desktop. Juggle work, daily life, health, relationships, and personal projects, install unusual components, and build chains of clicking pulses before your entire life system crashes.