Single-player games like Othercide
Below are 19 single-player Steam games similar to Othercide, 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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Into the Breach
Single-player alternative to Othercide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Othercide.
Control powerful mechs from the future to defeat an alien threat. Each attempt to save the world presents a new randomly generated challenge in this turn-based strategy game.
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Invisible, Inc.
Single-player alternative to Othercide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Othercide.
Take control of Invisible's agents in the field and infiltrate the world's most dangerous corporations. Stealth, precision, and teamwork are essential in high-stakes, high-profit missions, where every move may cost an agent their life.
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Iratus: Lord of the Dead
Single-player alternative to Othercide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Strategy with Othercide.
Iratus: Lord of the Dead is a turn-based tactical roguelike RPG set in a dark fantasy universe. Lead an army of undead to help an angry necromancer in his quest to reach the surface world and bring death to the mortal realms!
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Darkest Dungeon®
Single-player alternative to Othercide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Othercide.
Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?
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The Last Spell
Single-player alternative to Othercide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Strategy with Othercide.
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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Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus
Single-player alternative to Othercide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Othercide.
MECHANICUS II ANNOUNCED! Take control of one of the most technologically advanced factions in the Imperium: the Adeptus Mechanicus. In this turn-based tactical game, your every decision will weigh heavily on the outcome of the conflict. Will you be blessed by the Omnissiah?
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Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden
Single-player alternative to Othercide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Othercide.
A tactical game combining the turn-based combat of XCOM with story, exploration, stealth, and strategy. Take control of a team of Mutants navigating a post-human Earth. Created by a team including former HITMAN leads and the designer of PAYDAY.
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Tainted Grail: Conquest
Single-player alternative to Othercide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Othercide.
A unique, infinitely replayable, story-driven hybrid between a deck-building Roguelike and an RPG game. Explore the ever-changing maps, fight with deadly enemies, and learn what happened to the cursed island of Avalon.
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XCOM® 2
Single-player alternative to Othercide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Othercide.
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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Phoenix Point
Single-player alternative to Othercide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Othercide.
The acclaimed strategy game from the creator of X-COM. Fight tactical battles on procedural maps against a foe that adapts to your tactics. Manage diplomacy and economy on a global scale. Research, explore, overcome. Now includes Steam Workshop support for mods!
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Marvel's Midnight Suns
Single-player alternative to Othercide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Othercide.
FIGHT AND STRATEGIZE LIKE A SUPER HERO IN THE DARKER CORNERS OF THE MARVEL UNIVERSE. Play as The Hunter, a legendary demon slayer who must lead a team of Super Heroes and supernatural warriors facing apocalyptic threats.
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XCOM®: Chimera Squad
Single-player alternative to Othercide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Othercide.
XCOM: Chimera Squad delivers an all-new story and turn-based tactical combat experience in the XCOM universe.
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Moonscars
Single-player alternative to Othercide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Othercide.
Push the limits of your combat skills, and master new abilities to progress through an unforgiving nonlinear 2D world. Face off against the relentless darkness that seeks to destroy you. In Moonscars, every death is a lesson learnt—and as you overcome each challenge, new truths will be revealed.
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Star Renegades
Single-player alternative to Othercide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Othercide.
Star Renegades is a dimension spanning rogue-lite strategy RPG. Outsmart uniquely generated adversaries, forge bonds between heroes and end the cycle!
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Wartales
Single-player alternative to Othercide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Strategy with Othercide.
Wartales is an open world RPG in which you lead a group of mercenaries in their search for wealth across a massive medieval universe. Explore the world, recruit companions, collect bounties and unravel the secrets of the tombs of the ancients!
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Wasteland 3
Single-player alternative to Othercide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Othercide.
Following the critically acclaimed 2014 Game of the Year winner Wasteland 2, the RPG series that pioneered the post-apocalyptic genre in video games returns with Wasteland 3.
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Nova Hearts
Single-player alternative to Othercide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Othercide.
A mysterious force of power transforms you and other highly attractive people in your area into superheroes and villains! TEXT, DATE and FIGHT your friends and enemies alike.
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Nova Hearts: The Spark
Single-player alternative to Othercide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Strategy with Othercide.
Join Luce and her friends in this FREE first chapter: The Spark! A mysterious force transforms you and other residents of Vermillion into heroes and villains. TEXT, DATE and FIGHT in this turn-based combat dating adventure!
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Ex Sanguis
Single-player alternative to Othercide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Othercide.
Bleed the world back to life in a series of tactical, turn-based bloodbaths! Lead your STILLAE, elite warriors in the fight to save a dying world from the forces of STASIS. Slay foes, kick them back on the timeline, and trigger chain events where elegance and blood flow as one.