Single-player games like Strain Tactics
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Strain Tactics, 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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Infested Planet
Single-player alternative to Strain Tactics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Strain Tactics.
Command a team of 5 elite soldiers against an alien horde of 100,000. Surrounded on all sides, you must outmaneuver and outsmart the enemy.
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Cepheus Protocol
Single-player alternative to Strain Tactics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Strain Tactics.
Cepheus Protocol is an Open World RTS Military Survival Game. Play as the CERC hunting Patient 0, maintain Quarantine camps, fight dangerous mutations & Rogue Civilian Combatants . There’s nobody else coming, it’s up to you now.
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Door Kickers
Single-player alternative to Strain Tactics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Strain Tactics.
Door Kickers is an innovative realtime strategy game that puts you in charge of a SWAT team and lets you command them during a tactical intervention.
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Atom Zombie Smasher
Single-player alternative to Strain Tactics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Strain Tactics.
The zombie apocalypse is upon us and it's up to you to evacuate everyone before they fall prey to the undead. Conduct massive rescue operations with a helping hand from snipers, artillery crews, orbital bombardments, and more.
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10 Miles To Safety
Single-player alternative to Strain Tactics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Strain Tactics.
The Apocalypse has arrived and your goal is simple: Make it 10 miles to safety through a limitless procedurally-generated world overrun with The Infected and packed with the tools and weapons to fight them.
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Survivor Squad
Single-player alternative to Strain Tactics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Strain Tactics.
Survivor Squad is a Strategy Action game where you control a Squad of up to four survivors and guide them through a highly randomized world looking for supplies to aid you on your journey.
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Chromosome Evil
Single-player alternative to Strain Tactics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Strain Tactics.
Dive deep into this Lovecraft-inspired RTS survival. Assemble your team using different classes, skills, and weaponry. It's up to your squad to survive the onslaught of nightmares that are surely coming your way. Will you find the source of the darkness?
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Dustwind
Single-player alternative to Strain Tactics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Strain Tactics.
ARE YOU READY FOR CLASSIC REALTIME TACTICS? Be the nameless heroine in the wastelands of DUSTWIND's story campaign or find with two friends a new home or fight against and with human players in the elaborate Multiplayer mode or design your very own story campaigns and maps in the mighty map editor!
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RimWorld
Single-player alternative to Strain Tactics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Strain Tactics.
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
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Project Zomboid
Single-player alternative to Strain Tactics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Strain Tactics.
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..