Single-player games like IFO
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to IFO, 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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Hardspace: Shipbreaker
Single-player alternative to IFO — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with IFO.
Equipped with cutting-edge salvaging tech, carve & slice spaceships to recover valuable materials. Upgrade your gear to take on more lucrative contracts and pay your billion credits debt to LYNX Corp!
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Objects in Space
Single-player alternative to IFO — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with IFO.
Objects in Space is a retro space game centred on 2D point-and-click stealth action in a massive open world. Players have their own customisable ships and can meet people, become a trader, bounty hunter, explorer, scavenger or all of them at once.
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ENDLESS™ Space - Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to IFO — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with IFO.
ENDLESS™ Space is a turn-based 4X strategy game, covering the space colonization age in the ENDLESS™ Universe, where you can control every aspect of your civilization as you strive for galactic domination.
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Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™
Single-player alternative to IFO — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with IFO.
Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth is a new science-fiction-themed entry into the award winning Civilization series. As part of an expedition sent to find a home beyond Earth, lead your people into a new frontier, explore and colonize an alien planet and create a new civilization in space.
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Grey Goo
Single-player alternative to IFO — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with IFO.
Fight for control of a frontier world. Gather resources, build your base, and command your forces in battle. Survive long enough to unleash your ultimate weapon - THE EPIC.
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FTL: Faster Than Light
Single-player alternative to IFO — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with IFO.
This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.
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Rebel Galaxy Outlaw
Single-player alternative to IFO — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with IFO.
Out of cash, out of luck, out on the fringe. Juno Markev has a killer to tail, a debt to pay, and more trouble headed her way. Rebel Galaxy Outlaw takes place in a greasy, blue-collar world of outlaws, truckers, cops and thieves.
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Earth 2160
Single-player alternative to IFO — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with IFO.
After the destruction of the EARTH in 2150, the leaders of the Eurasian Dynasty escaped on board an evacuation fleet. Now they are fighting for the survival of the human species. Their base is one large building comprising of smaller variable parts.
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Inner Tao
Single-player alternative to IFO — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with IFO.
Master the opposites in this meditative puzzle game.
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Alephant
Single-player alternative to IFO — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with IFO.
A word-less abstract puzzle game about language.