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Single-player games like Mote

Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Mote, 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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    Company Captain: Westashes — Steam game cover

    Company Captain: Westashes

    Single-player alternative to Mote — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Mote.

    Command a mercenary Free Company in a brutal, dynamic medieval world. Navigate the overworld, manage your roster, and fight unforgiving hex-grid tactical battles where factions and characters remember your actions and every mercenary's death is permanent... or not...

    StrategyIndieRPGSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Chaos Front — Steam game cover

    Chaos Front

    Single-player alternative to Mote — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Mote.

    A turn-based space mecha mercenary game. You can recruit pilots and captains with varying stories and skills, buy and modify spaceships, mecha, artillery, and fighters, take missions, participate in battles between Galactic Powers, change the situations, and experience different stories.

    2026StrategyIndieRPGSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    SableSyn Protocol — Steam game cover

    SableSyn Protocol

    Single-player alternative to Mote — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Mote.

    Engage enemies in turn-based battles on an 8 X 5 grid where each team controls their half of the battlefield. Each battle is a test of planning and execution. Success depends on managing your resources and choosing the right tradeoffs at the right moment.

    2026StrategyRPGSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Raise the banners — Steam game cover

    Raise the banners

    Single-player alternative to Mote — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Mote.

    An unforgiving medieval fantasy RPG of map conquest, moral choices, party combat, and army-scale sieges. It's time to raise the banners!

    2026RPGSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Kriv Solas — Steam game cover

    Kriv Solas

    Single-player alternative to Mote — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Mote.

    A turn-based take on the extraction fantasy RPG. Manage your resources, gather loot, and complete your expedition. If you fail to return, no treasure will matter.

    StrategyIndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Grey Heritage: Counter Gambit — Steam game cover

    Grey Heritage: Counter Gambit

    Single-player alternative to Mote — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Mote.

    Grey Heritage: Counter Gambit is the grand finale to the tactical RPG trilogy. Command a massive cast of returning heroes in the series’ most strategic entry yet. Master evolved turn-based combat, guide your army through tactical challenges, and witness the conclusion to every character's story.

    2027StrategyRPGSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Forsworn — Steam game cover

    Forsworn

    Single-player alternative to Mote — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Mote.

    Stack game-breaking synergies until your party can slay gods. Command a party of heroes, forge powerful synergies, and level them up across runs in this turn-based tactics roguelite. Battle the gods solo or in co-op, where defeat is just another beginning.

    2026StrategyIndieRPGSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Cell Command — Steam game cover

    Cell Command

    Single-player alternative to Mote — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Mote.

    TURN-BASED TACTICS meets SNAKE: A new roguelike in the Genome Guardian universe. SPLICE DNA to create new units, enhance their genetics, and take on the Abyss virus once more in a variety of different modes & match types.

    2025StrategyIndieRPG17.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →