Single-player games like SpaceBourne 2
Below are 15 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
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.
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Starpoint Gemini 2
Single-player alternative to SpaceBourne 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Simulation with SpaceBourne 2.
Captain your own space ship and roam the galaxy in 3D in this tactical space simulator with tons of RPG depth ! Space has never looked so inviting - but images can betray...It has been two years since the end of the second Gemini war, the situation in the wartorn system is further from resolution than ever.
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EVERSPACE™ 2
Single-player alternative to SpaceBourne 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with SpaceBourne 2.
EVERSPACE 2 is a fast-paced single-player spaceship shooter with exploration in space and on planets, tons of loot, RPG elements, mining, and crafting. Experience an exciting sci-fi story set in a vivid, handcrafted open world full of secrets, puzzles, and perils.
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Genesis Alpha One Deluxe Edition
Single-player alternative to SpaceBourne 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with SpaceBourne 2.
Hyperjump into the dark recesses of space with Genesis Alpha One - a roguelike FPS where you must build, maintain and navigate your ship through a galaxy filled with hostile alien and human threats. Explore, create and survive the militarized space race in order to secure humanity’s future.
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Avorion
Single-player alternative to SpaceBourne 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with SpaceBourne 2.
A procedural co-op space sandbox where players can build their own space ships out of dynamically scalable blocks. Fight epic space battles, explore, mine, trade, wage wars and build your own empire to save your galaxy from being torn apart by an unknown enemy.
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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.
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SpaceEngine
Single-player alternative to SpaceBourne 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with SpaceBourne 2.
The world's first science-based photorealistic interactive 3D planetarium that models the entire Universe, using procedural generation for uncharted areas.
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Underspace
Single-player alternative to SpaceBourne 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with SpaceBourne 2.
The spiritual successor to Freelancer with a Lovecraftian, sandbox RPG twist. Explore a vast handmade universe with Day 1 mod support and a planned PvP/co-op multiplayer on the Early Access roadmap. You're going to need a bigger ship.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.