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Single-player games like SpaceBourne 2

Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to SpaceBourne 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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    X4: Foundations — Steam game cover

    X4: Foundations

    Single-player alternative to SpaceBourne 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with SpaceBourne 2.

    Your journey to building a vast space empire begins behind the controls of a single ship. Explore, trade, fight, and build as you rise to command fleets, stations, and entire economies in a living, fully simulated universe that reacts to every decision.

    2018ActionStrategySimulation12.49 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Rionag: Survey Fleet — Steam game cover

    Rionag: Survey Fleet

    Single-player alternative to SpaceBourne 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with SpaceBourne 2.

    Rionag: Survey Fleet is a top-down starship builder and logistics game where it's your job to balance the needs of the crews with cutting-edge equipment on board. Unlock tech that adds new capabilities for your ships to go through hazardous environments, enabling you to explore new worlds.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation20.00 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Space Station Continuum — Steam game cover

    Space Station Continuum

    Single-player alternative to SpaceBourne 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with SpaceBourne 2.

    Space Station Continuum is a building & management sim inspired by the past, present, and future of humans in space.

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Frontier Pilot Simulator — Steam game cover

    Frontier Pilot Simulator

    Single-player alternative to SpaceBourne 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with SpaceBourne 2.

    FPS is a Sci-Fi cargo pilot sim, with an engaging emergent mission-driven storyline, with a real-time economy with free flight and trading, on an alien world to explore. All in customizable upgradeable, well-simulated VTOL craft with real weather, and flight dynamics.

    2021IndieAdventureSimulation24.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Rocket Inc — Steam game cover

    Rocket Inc

    Single-player alternative to SpaceBourne 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with SpaceBourne 2.

    Help build mankind's last magnificent structure in this game where you carry out transport missions between planets in the solar system. Build your company and prepare to take off! Earn humankind's respect with more missions.

    2022StrategyIndieAdventure2.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Create Your Own Universe — Steam game cover

    Create Your Own Universe

    Single-player alternative to SpaceBourne 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with SpaceBourne 2.

    Create Your Own Universe is a survival, crafting, exploration, base building, third person, open world, go anywhere you see on screen space game.

    2023IndieAdventureSimulation18.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Rank: Warmaster — Steam game cover

    Rank: Warmaster

    Single-player alternative to SpaceBourne 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with SpaceBourne 2.

    Stranded on Mars with next to nothing, build a city, assemble a fleet, and expand your empire to survive a hostile solar system in this new take that combines elements of space combat and RTS inspired by the classics.

    2021ActionStrategyIndie24.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Orbit-X — Steam game cover

    Orbit-X

    Single-player alternative to SpaceBourne 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with SpaceBourne 2.

    Launch a rocket. Extend the Antenna. Set your internet service price and start making money. Oh and shoot down asteroids if they threaten your satellites.

    2021ActionStrategyIndieFreeDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Mass Effect (2007) — Steam game cover

    Mass Effect (2007)

    Single-player alternative to SpaceBourne 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with SpaceBourne 2.

    As Commander Shepard, you lead an elite squad on a heroic, action-packed adventure throughout the galaxy.

    2008ActionRPG5.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Mount & Blade — Steam game cover

    Mount & Blade

    Single-player alternative to SpaceBourne 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with SpaceBourne 2.

    Calradia is a land at war, offering great riches and even greater dangers to adventurers and mercenaries that flock to shed their blood on its soil. With courage and a strong sword, an unknown stranger can make a name as a warrior. Free-form sand-box gameplay.

    2008IndieRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    No Man's Sky — Steam game cover

    No Man's Sky

    Single-player alternative to SpaceBourne 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with SpaceBourne 2.

    No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.

    2016ActionAdventure59.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Stellaris — Steam game cover

    Stellaris

    Single-player alternative to SpaceBourne 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with SpaceBourne 2.

    Explore a galaxy full of wonders in this sci-fi grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studios. Interact with diverse alien races, discover strange new worlds with unexpected events and expand the reach of your empire. Each new adventure holds almost limitless possibilities.

    2016StrategySimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Rebel Galaxy — Steam game cover

    Rebel Galaxy

    Single-player alternative to SpaceBourne 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with SpaceBourne 2.

    Rebel Galaxy is a swashbuckling space adventure, with action-packed combat, exploration, discovery, trade, and “negotiation” with the outlandish denizens at the edge of the known universe.

    2015ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Starfield — Steam game cover

    Starfield

    Single-player alternative to SpaceBourne 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with SpaceBourne 2.

    Starfield is the first new universe in 25 years from Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout 4.

    2023RPG49.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    SpaceBourne — Steam game cover

    SpaceBourne

    Single-player alternative to SpaceBourne 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with SpaceBourne 2.

    Spacebourne is an open space exploration game with Rpg elements. Its world consists of different factions at war. You as an expert pilot need to choose your side or be on no one's side and create a force of your own. Load up your weapons, Ready your ship and warp to adventure.

    2020IndieSimulationRPG14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Mesel — Steam game cover

    Mesel

    Single-player alternative to SpaceBourne 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with SpaceBourne 2.

    Mesel is inviting you to become the protagonist and the writer of a novel at the same time. Create your own novel with your own decisions.

    2016ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →