Single-player games like Approaching Infinity
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Approaching Infinity, 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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UnReal World
Single-player alternative to Approaching Infinity — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Approaching Infinity.
The cult classic open-ended wilderness survival roguelike taking place in the ancient North, iron-age Finland. Throughout the years, UnReal World has been praised for its incredible depth, realism, atmos and immersion. Lose yourself in the most intricate, detailed and enchanting iron-age game world.
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Cogmind
Single-player alternative to Approaching Infinity — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Approaching Infinity.
Cogmind is a sci-fi roguelike epic in which you play a robot building yourself from components found or salvaged from other robots. Explore a living, breathing world through turn-based tactical combat, or sneak, hack, and fly your way to victory.
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Terminus: Zombie Survivors
Single-player alternative to Approaching Infinity — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Approaching Infinity.
Terminus: Zombie Survivors is a 2D turn-based survival roguelike set during a zombie apocalypse. Each journey is unique, and every decision can mean the difference between life and death. Can you brave hunger, cold, and the undead in order to reach the Terminus and find salvation?
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Wayward
Single-player alternative to Approaching Infinity — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Approaching Infinity.
You awake to discover yourself no longer in the company of good men or a fine seafaring vessel. Treasure... you remember something about treasure. Wayward is a challenging turn-based, top-down, wilderness survival roguelike. Explore, build, and most importantly survive in these unforgiving lands.
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Tales of Maj'Eyal
Single-player alternative to Approaching Infinity — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Approaching Infinity.
Tales of Maj’Eyal is a roguelike RPG, featuring tactical turn-based combat and advanced character building. Play as one of many unique races and classes in the lore-filled world of Eyal, exploring random dungeons, facing challenging battles, and developing characters with your own tailored mix of abilities and powers.
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Quest of Dungeons
Single-player alternative to Approaching Infinity — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Approaching Infinity.
Quest of Dungeons is a turn based dungeon crawler game featuring a good old 16-bit retro artistic look. By playing as either a Warrior, Wizard, Assassin or Shaman you have to traverse dungeons, defeat enemies and loot everything you can in order to survive.
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Sword of the Stars: The Pit
Single-player alternative to Approaching Infinity — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Approaching Infinity.
A fun, fast, light-hearted, turn-based RPG, where the tradition of old school dungeon-diving games meets the sci-fi Sword of the Stars universe!
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Golden Krone Hotel
Single-player alternative to Approaching Infinity — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Approaching Infinity.
Golden Krone Hotel is a gothic horror roguelike. Fight vampires with sunlight or become a vampire yourself and sneak in the shadows. Combines classic turn-based combat with dynamic lighting, an innovative potion system, and fast paced gameplay.
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Star Control III
Single-player alternative to Approaching Infinity — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Approaching Infinity.
The universe is on the brink of destruction. It’s up to you to embark on an epic adventure of strategy and diplomacy to save thousands of worlds from total annihilation. But no pressure, right?
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The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
Single-player alternative to Approaching Infinity — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The year is 1962 and the Cold War has the nation gripped by fear. A top-secret government unit called The Bureau begins investigating a series of mysterious attacks by an enemy more powerful than communism.
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Caves of Qud
Single-player alternative to Approaching Infinity — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Approaching Infinity.
Inhabit a deeply-simulated science fantasy world and chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations. Build a character from over a hundred mutations and cybernetics. The award-winning sandbox roguelike & RPG full of robots, deep lore, and sentient plants.
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Star Traders: Frontiers
Single-player alternative to Approaching Infinity — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Approaching Infinity.
You are the captain of a starship venturing through a massive open universe. Customize your crew and take command at the helm of your very own ship as you explore a galaxy torn apart by internal strife, alien threats, and political intrigue.
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Star Control I and II
Single-player alternative to Approaching Infinity — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Approaching Infinity.
Explore a vast universe with pulse-pounding action, side-splitting humor, and hair-raising plot twists in these 2 classic space adventure games.
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Transcendence
Single-player alternative to Approaching Infinity — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Approaching Infinity.
Explore the farthest reaches of Human Space in this open-world space adventure. Compelled to journey to the Galactic Core by a mysterious hyperintelligence, you must fight your way through dozens of star systems teeming with clashing empires, expansionist AIs, and fearsome xenophobes.
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NetHack: Legacy
Single-player alternative to Approaching Infinity — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Approaching Infinity.
NETHACK: LEGACY is a remastered version of the original NetHack, the deeply rich and complex fantasy D&D roguelike. Hack and slash your way through orcs, dragons, and cockatrices as you explore the perilous procedurally-generated dungeons seeking the Amulet of Yendor.
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Approaching Infinity Survivors
Single-player alternative to Approaching Infinity — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Approaching Infinity.
A Bullet-Heaven roguelike in the Approaching Infinity universe with both spaceship and away team missions. The exit of the galaxy's dominant races left a power vacuum that everyone wants to fill. Survive, pick a side, or kill'em all. No time to think when the horde's advancing.