Single-player games like Space Station Tycoon
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Space Station Tycoon, 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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Solargene
Single-player alternative to Space Station Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Station Tycoon.
Take Command of a Space Corporation in the Sci-Fi Simulator Solargene! Manage personnel, design and develop colonies and orbital stations across the solar system! Mine resources, establish logistics, research cutting-edge technologies, trade, and complete missions
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IXION
Single-player alternative to Space Station Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Space Station Tycoon.
IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?
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Industries of Titan
Single-player alternative to Space Station Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Station Tycoon.
Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with other rival corporations on Titan for resources, territory, and power. Seek victory via technology, influence, warfare, or the wealth extracted from your citizens. Stake your claim to the Industries of Titan in this innovative sim/strategy game!
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Farlanders
Single-player alternative to Space Station Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Station Tycoon.
Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.
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Endzone - A World Apart
Single-player alternative to Space Station Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Space Station Tycoon.
Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.
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Oxygen
Single-player alternative to Space Station Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Station Tycoon.
Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!
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Surviving the Abyss
Single-player alternative to Space Station Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Station Tycoon.
Earth, 1976. You have been tasked with managing a deep-sea science facility working to perfect cloning. Explore the darkness and keep your crew alive in this hardcore survival colony builder. And beware. The darkness hides untold horrors.
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The Crust
Single-player alternative to Space Station Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Strategy with Space Station Tycoon.
Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.
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Manor Lords
Single-player alternative to Space Station Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Strategy with Space Station Tycoon.
Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.
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Tiny Aquarium: Social Fishkeeping
Single-player alternative to Space Station Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Space Station Tycoon.
A happy aquarium that lives at the bottom of your screen! Tiny Aquarium is a social idle simulator that keeps growing, even when offline. Hatch, sell fish, decorate, go fishin’, and visit your friends’ aquariums with bite-sized daily sessions.
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Dungeon Tycoon
Single-player alternative to Space Station Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Space Station Tycoon.
Build your own dungeon and attract heroes from all over the realm! Grow your business by exploiting every facet of your visitors' dungeon exploration experience. Will you be able to keep your evil dungeon business going?
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Dungeon Tycoon: Prologue
Single-player alternative to Space Station Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Space Station Tycoon.
Build your own dungeon and attract heroes from all over the realm in this free version of Dungeon Tycoon. Grow your business by exploiting every facet of your visitors' dungeon exploration experience. Will you be able to keep your evil dungeon business going?