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Single-player games like Spaceship Simulator

Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Spaceship Simulator, 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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    eXoSpace Combat Engineer — Steam game cover

    eXoSpace Combat Engineer

    Single-player alternative to Spaceship Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Spaceship Simulator.

    Build and pilot your warship to hunt the galaxy’s most wanted. Dodge blasters and missiles as you tear enemy hulls apart piece-by-piece in a high-stakes roguelite campaign, or unleash total chaos in the sandbox.

    2025ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Generation Ship — Steam game cover

    Generation Ship

    Single-player alternative to Spaceship Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Spaceship Simulator.

    As the AI responsible for a Generation Ship, you are humanity's last hope. Build efficient raw material cycles and help your crew in a realistic real-time simulation to survive the challenges of space on their long journey to a new home!

    2026StrategySimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    AstroForge: Space Pirates — Steam game cover

    AstroForge: Space Pirates

    Single-player alternative to Spaceship Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Spaceship Simulator.

    Build your unique spaceship and explore space. Travel between planets, fight different opponents, trade and develop. Build the most efficient ship and fight with other players in multiplayer. 17 languages available.

    2024ActionStrategyIndie5.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Orbital Traffic Controller — Steam game cover

    Orbital Traffic Controller

    Single-player alternative to Spaceship Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Spaceship Simulator.

    Orbital Traffic Controller is a sci-fi spaceship management game set in the Solar System. Become an interstellar traffic controller, directing vessels from planetary holding patterns and warp gates to atmospheric reentry, all while avoiding collisions with other spacecraft and planetary bodies.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Rocket Simulator — Steam game cover

    Rocket Simulator

    Single-player alternative to Spaceship Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Spaceship Simulator.

    Travel with your spacecraft throughout the solar system based on realistic Kepler's laws of gravity. Invent your own routes between planets, use gravity, explore space, trade, upgrade your spaceship and enjoy the beautiful scenery!

    2025IndieSimulationCasual9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Dimensions: Dreadnought Architect — Steam game cover

    Dimensions: Dreadnought Architect

    Single-player alternative to Spaceship Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Spaceship Simulator.

    Unleash your creativity, design your dreadnought with a variety of modules, and have complete control over the function and style of each module. Command your battleship with wisdom and decisiveness. Gallop in the vast galaxy and destroy all enemies.

    2023StrategySimulationEarly Access15.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Spaceflight Simulator — Steam game cover

    Spaceflight Simulator

    Single-player alternative to Spaceship Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Spaceship Simulator.

    In Spaceflight Simulator, you will get to build your rockets, plan launches and flights, attempt landings, deploy payloads and explore new worlds.

    2022IndieSimulationEarly Access14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder — Steam game cover

    Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder

    Single-player alternative to Spaceship Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Spaceship Simulator.

    Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game. With unique vertical and horizontal base-building gameplay, settle on 10 hostile alien planets and build your own thriving colony. Get enough materials to build a physics-based Spaceship and try to escape from disasters.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation4.79 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Individual Investor Tycoon — Steam game cover

    Individual Investor Tycoon

    Single-player alternative to Spaceship Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Spaceship Simulator.

    In Individual Investor Tycoon, you can simulate investing in stocks, real estate and bonds from the 90s. In the next 30 years, follow the market trend, make reasonable investment, let yourself out of the trap of the rat race, to achieve financial freedom.

    2018IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    妖怪俱乐部 Demon Club — Steam game cover

    妖怪俱乐部 Demon Club

    Single-player alternative to Spaceship Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Spaceship Simulator.

    Realizing the dream of being a demon king in childhood "Demon Club" is a game based on chinese mythology. It is envisioned on an overhead continent called "ShenZhou". The player is a demon with no power.

    2019ActionIndieRPG6.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Mini Transport — Steam game cover

    Mini Transport

    Single-player alternative to Spaceship Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Spaceship Simulator.

    In MiniTransport, players need to think about how to use wiring to build a complete industrial chain to achieve the goal of producing the final product.

    2020IndieSimulationCasual0.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Capital Simulator — Steam game cover

    Capital Simulator

    Single-player alternative to Spaceship Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Spaceship Simulator.

    A game that simulates the use of capital to build a complex industrial chain, stock investment and business challenges

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation5.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    War of Resistance — Steam game cover

    War of Resistance

    Single-player alternative to Spaceship Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Spaceship Simulator.

    In this turn-based strategy game simulating the Second Sino-Japanese War, players will take on the role of the Communist forces, fighting against the Japanese army in the upcoming War of Resistance, and later, battling the Republic of China to win the Civil War.

    2025StrategySimulation4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →