Single-player games like Depth of Extinction
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Depth of Extinction, 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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Pathway
Single-player alternative to Depth of Extinction — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Depth of Extinction.
Explore the strange unknown with Pathway, a strategy adventure set in the 1930s great wilderness. Unravel long-forgotten mysteries of the occult, raid ancient tombs and outwit your foes in turn-based squad combat!
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Overfall
Single-player alternative to Depth of Extinction — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Depth of Extinction.
Set sail in Overfall, a whimsical roguelike turn-based RPG of diplomacy and danger. Recruit unlikely heroes, forge alliances or crush your foes across ever-shifting seas to find a lost king. Every run is fresh with procedural worlds, permanent death, branching story encounters, and hand-drawn art.
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For The King
Single-player alternative to Depth of Extinction — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Depth of Extinction.
For The King is a strategic RPG that blends tabletop and roguelike elements in a challenging adventure that spans the realms. Set off on a single player experience or play cooperatively both online and locally.
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The Last Spell
Single-player alternative to Depth of Extinction — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Depth of Extinction.
Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.
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Ancient Frontier
Single-player alternative to Depth of Extinction — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Depth of Extinction.
Ancient Frontier is a turn-based strategy RPG set in the far future. You command the fleet. Buy new ships, outfit them with crew and equipment, then deploy and destroy the enemy. Take control of massive fleets of capital ships and support craft as you play through two unique campaigns.
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Templar Battleforce
Single-player alternative to Depth of Extinction — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Depth of Extinction.
An addictive mix of strategic combat and army building, with the precision of an RPG. Design your squad members' exact build of equipment and talents to create unique fireteam combinations. Step into the pilot suit of a Leviathan mech, lead the Templar Knights in turn-based tactical warfare.
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Cyber Knights: Flashpoint
Single-player alternative to Depth of Extinction — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Depth of Extinction.
Cyberpunk mercenaries RPG! Turn-based squad tactics with unique heist-planning strategy. Build your crew wisely; their stories will become interwoven with your own. Pull off heists with powerful cyberware, faction connections, multiclassing, weapon modding, stealth, hacking, and more!
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Vigilantes
Single-player alternative to Depth of Extinction — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Depth of Extinction.
Vigilantes is a combat focused, turn-based tactical RPG set in the crime riddled city of Reiker. The game offers hardcore squad-level combat in a gritty neo-noir setting, intel gathering through surveillance and interrogation, a detailed character system, base facilities, crafting, and more.
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X-COM: Terror From the Deep
Single-player alternative to Depth of Extinction — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Depth of Extinction.
The war continues... X-COM: UFO Defense brought you to a galactic battlefield. X-COM: Terror from the Deep brings the alien terror into a totally new dimension.Seeking to take advantage of a weakened Earth, X-COM's deep space foes unexpectedly change strategy and launch a powerful second front against planet Earth.
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Stirring Abyss
Single-player alternative to Depth of Extinction — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Depth of Extinction.
Stirring Abyss is an indie tactical squad-based game with strong RPG elements in which you uncover the ancient mysteries of the depths depicted in the classic vein of Lovecraftian horror.
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Halfway
Single-player alternative to Depth of Extinction — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Depth of Extinction.
Halfway is a turn-based strategy RPG taking place a few hundred years into the future. Humanity has started colonising new worlds. Until now, they were alone ...
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XCOM® 2
Single-player alternative to Depth of Extinction — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Depth of Extinction.
XCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 award-winning strategy game of the year. Earth has changed and is now under alien rule. Facing impossible odds you must rebuild XCOM, and ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity.
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X-COM: UFO Defense
Single-player alternative to Depth of Extinction — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Depth of Extinction.
You are in control of X-COM: an organization formed by the world's governments to fight the ever-increasing alien menace.
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Xenonauts
Single-player alternative to Depth of Extinction — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Depth of Extinction.
Xenonauts is a strategy game in which you control a multi-national military organisation defending a Cold War-era Earth from alien invasion, using small squads of persistent soldiers to eliminate the extraterrestrials and recover their technology in turn-based ground combat.