Single-player games like orbit.industries
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to orbit.industries, 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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Rionag: Survey Fleet
Single-player alternative to orbit.industries — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with orbit.industries.
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.
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Solar Baron
Single-player alternative to orbit.industries — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with orbit.industries.
As head of an interplanetary corporation, your goal is to extract resources from across the solar system and bring them home faster and cheaper than your competitors. Construct trade depots and colonies. Build rockets and spaceports. Master realistic orbital mechanics and maximize profits.
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Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
Single-player alternative to orbit.industries — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with orbit.industries.
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.
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Dyson Sphere Program
Single-player alternative to orbit.industries — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with orbit.industries.
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
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InfraSpace
Single-player alternative to orbit.industries — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with orbit.industries.
Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.
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Anno 2205™
Single-player alternative to orbit.industries — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with orbit.industries.
In Anno 2205™, you join humankind‘s next step into the future with the promise to build a better tomorrow. You conquer Earth, establishing rich, bustling cities and grand industrial complexes, but to secure the prosperity of your people, you must travel into space.
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Final Upgrade
Single-player alternative to orbit.industries — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with orbit.industries.
Help humanity to spread throughout the cosmos by exploring new worlds, building space factories and setting up trade routes. Research advanced technologies to increase efficiency and unlock new paths of development. Fight off other artificial intelligences in your goal to reach the Final Upgrade!
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The Final Earth 2
Single-player alternative to orbit.industries — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with orbit.industries.
The Final Earth 2 is a vertical sci-fi city builder. Earth is unlivable, so you decide to create a space colony. Gather resources, then build and research your way to a better future! Grow your city from an exploration ship to a huge metropolis, full of advanced technology. What will you build?
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Kerbal Space Program
Single-player alternative to orbit.industries — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with orbit.industries.
In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
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Factorio
Single-player alternative to orbit.industries — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with orbit.industries.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
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Schacht
Single-player alternative to orbit.industries — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Schacht is a competitive 3D platformer racing game. Run on walls, swing, slide and dash to beat the levels as fast as possible. Compare your highscores with players from all around the world or challenge your friends in the local splitscreen multiplayer!
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Astral Tracks
Single-player alternative to orbit.industries — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Astral Tracks is a precise and competitive 3D platforming speedrunner where you run, dash, slide, swing and wall run your way to victory. Compete against friends locally or online and refine your runs to top the leaderboards for each procedurally generated track!
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Chessfall
Single-player alternative to orbit.industries — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with orbit.industries.
A roguelite adventure in the chess kingdom – roam the land as a shapeshifter, collect items & loot, trade with merchants, defeat powerful bosses and find the white queen to break the curse of the black wizard!