Single-player games like Crying Suns
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Crying Suns, 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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Corpoct
Single-player alternative to Crying Suns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crying Suns.
Test your wits as well as your ability to lead an expedition in this deep space dungeon-crawler. Hire the best heroes and villains of the galaxy. Find unknown planets in uncharted space. Start small, plan big and get a fleet of warships capable enough to rival most fearsome enemies.
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Heat Signature
Single-player alternative to Crying Suns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crying Suns.
Heat Signature is a game from the developers of Gunpoint where you break into spaceships, make terrible mistakes, and think of clever ways out of them. You take a mission, fly to the target ship, sneak inside, and make clever use of your gadgets to distract, ambush and take out the crew.
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FTL: Faster Than Light
Single-player alternative to Crying Suns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crying Suns.
This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.
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Void War
Single-player alternative to Crying Suns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crying Suns.
Command an ancient starship and fight your way to the heart of a dying Empire. Fend off attacks from demented cultists, craven space pirates, and xenophobic Imperial soldiers. Discover powerful artifacts and use them to build your ship into a fearsome war engine.
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Steam Marines
Single-player alternative to Crying Suns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crying Suns.
Steam Marines is a squad based Roguelike set on a steampunk spaceship. It features tactical play focused on positioning and careful use of resources. Built to keep you on your toes as you progress through the decks of your besieged ship while clearing enemies and trying to reach each level's elevator.
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Invisible, Inc.
Single-player alternative to Crying Suns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crying Suns.
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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March of the Living
Single-player alternative to Crying Suns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crying Suns.
Roguelike-like inspired by FTL and popular zombie fiction. Guide a group of survivors to a rumoured safe haven.
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Battlevoid: Harbinger
Single-player alternative to Crying Suns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crying Suns.
Battlevoid: Harbinger is a hard sci-fi space exploration game blending roguelike, turn-based, star map strategy, and real-time space battles. You are a young commander venturing out into enemy territories, to unknown galaxies, never knowing what you will face as you jump out from hyperspace.
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Mass Effect (2007)
Single-player alternative to Crying Suns — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
As Commander Shepard, you lead an elite squad on a heroic, action-packed adventure throughout the galaxy.
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Curious Expedition
Single-player alternative to Crying Suns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crying Suns.
Curious Expedition is a roguelike expedition simulation set in the late 19th century. Together with famous personalities you will venture on unprecedented expeditions to regions never explored before for fame, science and treasures.
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Shortest Trip to Earth
Single-player alternative to Crying Suns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crying Suns.
Shortest Trip to Earth is a roguelike spaceship simulator focused on exploration, ship management and tactical battles. Embark on a perilous journey across the universe with nuclear missiles, armed crew and a cat.
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Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes
Single-player alternative to Crying Suns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crying Suns.
In Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes, take command of a fleet escaping the annihilation of the Twelve Colonies. Manage crises on board as you prepare for the next encounter with the Cylon Fleet. Times are dire, and hard choices must be made. Your only hope: rejoin the Battlestar Galactica.