Single-player games like EarthX 2
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to EarthX 2, 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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Cog Foo
Single-player alternative to EarthX 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with EarthX 2.
A battle-laden automation game where you have to manufacture everything from battle units down to every bullet! Engage in battles to gather survivors. Manage and feed your people. Mine, farm and Optimize production lines. Can you lead your people to victory?
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Union Of Rivals
Single-player alternative to EarthX 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with EarthX 2.
A deep colony sim and city builder. Manage resources and production chains to build the railroad from East to West. Found towns, harvest and refine the goods that fuel the line, then persuade or outlast the settlements in your path. Every citizen has a name, a trait, and a breaking point.
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Captain of Industry
Single-player alternative to EarthX 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with EarthX 2.
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
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Cosmic Ascent
Single-player alternative to EarthX 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with EarthX 2.
Build and expand an orbital station in this idle/incremental space colony sim. Manage crew, resources, refinery chains, research and ship expeditions as you progress from Earth orbit toward new planets.
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Benders In Space
Single-player alternative to EarthX 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with EarthX 2.
Mine the belts, colonize distant worlds, and choose your allies as three rival factions fight over a fractured frontier, then prestige through five starships and lead a joint fleet against the invading Dominion.
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Deepworks
Single-player alternative to EarthX 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with EarthX 2.
Earth is gone. The fleet is hungry. Drop a Hub on a generated claim, find the seam, and let the robots dig. Every machine you build makes noise — and noise is how the machines that took the planet find you. Hold the line, launch with the take, sell it, and go deeper.
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Steam & Steel Railway Tycoon
Single-player alternative to EarthX 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with EarthX 2.
Steam & Steel — Railway Tycoon puts you at the helm of a dieselpunk railway empire. Manage stations, locomotives, and resources, then dive into real-time simulation with dynamic maps, evolving fleets, and strategic decisions that shape your network’s rise.
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Rise Under the Warstorm
Single-player alternative to EarthX 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with EarthX 2.
Rise Under the Warstorm is a strategy game focused on automation, production, and base defense. Gather resources, build automated production lines, optimize your economy, train armies, and protect your settlement against enemy waves.
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EarthX
Single-player alternative to EarthX 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with EarthX 2.
EarthX is a rocket company management game. Go from launching small rockets on Earth to eventually building a colony on Mars. Create your own Internet constellation, develop new technologies, supply the International Space Station and terraform Mars!