Single-player games like Nexus - The Jupiter Incident
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Nexus - The Jupiter Incident, 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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Space Menace
Single-player alternative to Nexus - The Jupiter Incident — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nexus - The Jupiter Incident.
Space Menace is a sci-fi space RTS and battle game. You play as a space captain, seeking fortune and glory as you see fit. Leave your mark on the world and determine the fate of the galaxy with your decisions.
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Homeworld Remastered Collection
Single-player alternative to Nexus - The Jupiter Incident — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Nexus - The Jupiter Incident.
Experience the epic space strategy games that redefined the RTS genre. Control your fleet and build an armada across more than 30 single-player missions. Choose unit types, fleet formations and flight tactics for each strategic situation.
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Gratuitous Space Battles
Single-player alternative to Nexus - The Jupiter Incident — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nexus - The Jupiter Incident.
The first ever auto-battler game, from way back in 2009Who needs backstory? Who needs resource-gathering? Diplomacy is so last year. Gratuitous Space Battles cuts right to the chase of sci-fi strategy games, and deals with large, completely unjustified space battles between huge opposing space fleets.
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Battlefleet Gothic: Armada (Classic)
Single-player alternative to Nexus - The Jupiter Incident — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Nexus - The Jupiter Incident.
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada is the RTS videogame adaptation of Games Workshop’s classic tabletop game, pitting the Chaos, Imperium, Eldar, and Orks against each other in visceral space-battles.
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Star Command Galaxies
Single-player alternative to Nexus - The Jupiter Incident — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nexus - The Jupiter Incident.
Take command in the ultimate starship simulator: Star Command Galaxies. Become a Captain, recruit your crew, customize and upgrade your starship, battle alien vessels, teleport to away missions and repel boarding invaders in this real-time strategy simulation adventure from indie studio Warballoon.
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Aliens: Dark Descent
Single-player alternative to Nexus - The Jupiter Incident — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Nexus - The Jupiter Incident.
Drop into the gripping journey of Aliens: Dark Descent, a squad-based, single-player action game in the iconic Alien franchise. Lead your soldiers in real-time to stop a new and terrifying kind of Xenomorph outbreak on Planet Lethe.
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Battlevoid: Sector Siege
Single-player alternative to Nexus - The Jupiter Incident — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nexus - The Jupiter Incident.
Battlevoid: Sector Siege is an epic straight into action real-time space strategy game, in which the world has been built to deliver a lively battle field; and the action is never more than just seconds away at the start of every game.
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BattleGroupVR
Single-player alternative to Nexus - The Jupiter Incident — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Nexus - The Jupiter Incident.
BattleGroupVR is a first person real-time space strategy where you lead a fleet of powerful warships into battle from the bridge of your own flagship. Assemble your fleet, upgrade your load-outs, train your captains, engage the enemy and secure the sector. Try not to go down with the ship.
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Freespace 2
Single-player alternative to Nexus - The Jupiter Incident — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
FreeSpace 2, the follow up to the classic Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War is ready to engage you in the second round. Follow the Grand Terran Vasudan Alliance further into the mysteries of the Shivans. Get your flight stick and hit the flight deck. The last time was just a warm up.
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SC2VN - The eSports Visual Novel
Single-player alternative to Nexus - The Jupiter Incident — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Nexus - The Jupiter Incident.
SC2VN is a visual novel about the South Korean StarCraft 2 scene. You play as Mach, a foreign semi-pro trying to make it in eSports who soon learns that success in StarCraft takes more than in-game strategy.
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Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2
Single-player alternative to Nexus - The Jupiter Incident — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Nexus - The Jupiter Incident.
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 is the new real-time strategy game adapted from Games Workshop’s famous tabletop game that portrays the epic space battles of the Warhammer 40,000 universe.
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NEBULOUS: Fleet Command
Single-player alternative to Nexus - The Jupiter Incident — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Nexus - The Jupiter Incident.
Take command of your hand-tailored fleet of space warships and use realistic radar, electronic warfare, advanced movement controls in 3D space, and precision targeting to outmaneuver and outwit your opponents in a simulation-heavy tactical space game like no other.