Single-player games like Crying Suns
Below are 11 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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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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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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Convoy
Single-player alternative to Crying Suns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crying Suns.
Convoy is a tactical roguelike-like inspired by Mad Max and FTL in which you cross a wasteland in search of parts for your broken ship. Presented in pixel art and set in a future post-apocalyptic setting, Convoy is a squad based tactical combat roguelike-like in its core.
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Space Rogue
Single-player alternative to Crying Suns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crying Suns.
Take on the role of a spaceship captain. Explore new worlds, and engage in intense ship-to-ship battles. Develop unique battle tactics, upgrade your ship, and recruit crew members as you fight for peace or piracy.
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Duskers
Single-player alternative to Crying Suns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crying Suns.
Pilot drones into derelict spaceships to find the means to survive and piece together how the universe became a giant graveyard.
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Deep Sky Derelicts
Single-player alternative to Crying Suns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crying Suns.
Deep Sky Derelicts is an original combination of turn-based strategy and RPG, enriched with tactical card combat and popular roguelike elements. Explore derelict alien ships, fight, loot and upgrade your gear, all in distinctive retro-futuristic comic book aesthetic style.
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Power of Ten
Single-player alternative to Crying Suns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Crying Suns.
Fly a star-fighter against a bloodthirsty armada. Gather weapons, resources, and upgrades to help you push back the relentless assault while protecting the galaxies' civilians!
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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.