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Single-player games like orbit.industries

Below are 12 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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    Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder — Steam game cover

    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.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation4.79 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Dyson Sphere Program — Steam game cover

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Final Upgrade — Steam game cover

    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!

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Anno 2205™ — Steam game cover

    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.

    2015StrategySimulation39.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    RAILGRADE — Steam game cover

    RAILGRADE

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

    RAILGRADE is the train RTS game! Construct dense vertical railroads, build cities, construct vast factory chains with train automation! Restore an off world colony's economy all in the intense story driven campaign or relaxing sandbox mode!

    2023StrategySimulation29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Surviving Mars — Steam game cover

    Surviving Mars

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

    There will be challenges to overcome. Execute your strategy and improve your colony’s chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world. Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.

    2018StrategySimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Tropico 4 — Steam game cover

    Tropico 4

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

    The world is changing and Tropico is moving with the times - geographical powers rise and fall and the world market is dominated by new players with new demands and offers - and you, as El Presidente, face a whole new set of challenges.

    2011StrategySimulation14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Guild II — Steam game cover

    The Guild II

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

    The Guild 2 is the shining successor of the ultra successful medieval life sim, Europe 1400. The Guild 2 is a unique mixture of RPG and life simulation in an immersive middle ages scenario. The player and his party become part of history and can even change it in real-time. Go back to the dark middle ages and found a new dynasty!

    2010StrategySimulation9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Kerbal Space Program — Steam game cover

    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.

    2015IndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Factorio — Steam game cover

    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.

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation35.00 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Schacht — Steam game cover

    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!

    2017ActionIndieCasualSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Astral Tracks — Steam game cover

    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!

    2024ActionIndieRacing9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →