Single-player games like Precursors
Below are 18 single-player Steam games similar to Precursors, 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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Nomad Station
Single-player alternative to Precursors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Precursors.
Become a master MI6 saboteur, and earn your name as the ministry's most important asset on the Moon in this 1st-person shooter VR sci-fi epic! Follow the orders of your handler, or explore and find new weapons and defenses! Do whatever it takes to complete your mission!
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WarOfGods 2
Single-player alternative to Precursors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Precursors.
Action RPG to rule the city with goddesses and pets. Protect and rule your city using a variety of creations including cars, bikes, horses, dragons, bosses, and more. You can summon bosses, summon the three goddesses, hire gun-shooting soldiers or workers.
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Spiritus Astrum
Single-player alternative to Precursors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Precursors.
Spiritus Astrum is a persistent, open-world roleplaying sandbox with multiplayer support. It features an infinite, procedurally generated universe which players are free to explore without restriction. Spiritus Astrum is more than a game, it is a world.
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beta decay
Single-player alternative to Precursors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Precursors.
beta decay is a dark, dystopian RPG where you can build spaceships, join factions, and fight for territory in a newly discovered star system. Become an engineer repairing starships, a mech pilot commanding war machines, to a syndicate leader, executing raids deep within a labyrinthic neon city.
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Millennium Police
Single-player alternative to Precursors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Precursors.
This is a third person shooter FPS game with dream scenes. Players play as 90s police officers searching for evidence on the map to solve puzzles, and can also shoot and eliminate monsters. Players can wander in a bizarre world to find inspiration.
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Digitizer
Single-player alternative to Precursors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Precursors.
Digitizer is a Sci-Fi RPG set in a world devastated by poverty. It’s a story-driven open-world game with multiple factions. Fight, craft, drive and make your story choices that will bring the conflict to its end.
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Further
Single-player alternative to Precursors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Precursors.
Embark on an odyssey beyond the stars in "Further," a spellbinding virtual reality adventure that defies the limits of space and imagination. Assume the role of Alex, a fearless protagonist thrust into an interstellar realm of trials, puzzles, and encounters with extraterrestrial entities.
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Starfield Battlegrounds
Single-player alternative to Precursors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Precursors.
On the occasion of the invasion of alien races, in order to defend our homeland on Earth, you will play the role of one of humanity's ace pilots, piloting aircraft provided by various countries, galloping in the universe, and fighting against alien fleets.
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Starfield
Single-player alternative to Precursors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Precursors.
Starfield is the first new universe in 25 years from Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout 4.
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No Man's Sky
Single-player alternative to Precursors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Precursors.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
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Parkan 2
Single-player alternative to Precursors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Precursors.
Parkan II is an original concept game that will allow you to feel as a pilot of a spacecraft lost somewhere in the universe. Become a pirate or mercenary, get money to buy the most powerful cruiser and show them all who is to be the new master of the galaxy. Unforgettable adventures in the Parkan II universe await you!
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Mass Effect (2007)
Single-player alternative to Precursors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Precursors.
As Commander Shepard, you lead an elite squad on a heroic, action-packed adventure throughout the galaxy.
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Outcast - A New Beginning
Single-player alternative to Precursors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Precursors.
Explore the breathtaking alien world of Adelpha, support the local Talans in their struggles and fight your way through fast-paced battles against invading robot forces in this 3rd-person, open world, action adventure sequel to the 1999 cult classic.
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Outcast 1.1
Single-player alternative to Precursors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Precursors.
Outcast 1.1 is an enhanced version of the critically acclaimed action-adventure game developed in 1999 by Appeal for the PC.
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STAR WARS™ Knights of the Old Republic™
Single-player alternative to Precursors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Precursors.
It is four thousand years before the Galactic Empire and hundreds of Jedi Knights have fallen in battle against the ruthless Sith. You are the last hope of the Jedi Order. Can you master the awesome power of the Force on your quest to save the Republic? Or will you fall to the lure of the dark side?
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STAR WARS™ Knights of the Old Republic™ II - The Sith Lords™
Single-player alternative to Precursors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Precursors.
5 years after the events of the award winning original, the Sith are on the verge of crushing the Old Republic. As a lone Jedi, will you follow the light side or succumb to the dark?
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Xenus 2. White gold.
Single-player alternative to Precursors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Precursors.
Caribbean islands; islands full of secrets, mystery and the spirit of romance. These islands are both beautiful and lethally dangerous. Centuries ago the waters of this region were teeming with pirates and adventurers... and frankly, not much has changed since then.
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Boiling Point: Road to Hell
Single-player alternative to Precursors — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Precursors.
Saul Myers is back in action and ready to take on the world to get his daughter back. Do you have what it takes to complete his mission?