Single-player games like Gimbal
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Gimbal, 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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From the Depths
Single-player alternative to Gimbal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gimbal.
Over 1000 unique components allow you to build and command voxel vehicles from the deep ocean to outer space! Forge strategies, allegiances and fleets strong enough to destroy eight deadly factions of the planet and reign supreme. A genre-defying mashup of simulation, building, RTS and RPG.
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Reassembly
Single-player alternative to Gimbal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gimbal.
A spaceship building and universe-exploration game. Collect resources, expand and grow your fleet, and conquer your personal galaxy. Stellar ambience by Peaks.
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Gratuitous Space Battles
Single-player alternative to Gimbal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Gimbal.
The first ever auto-battler game, from way back in 2009Who needs backstory? Who needs resource-gathering? Diplomacy is so last year. Gratuitous Space Battles cuts right to the chase of sci-fi strategy games, and deals with large, completely unjustified space battles between huge opposing space fleets.
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Starship EVO
Single-player alternative to Gimbal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gimbal.
Mine and craft your way to orbit, build your own starship and explore a vast, dangerous galaxy alongside your crew. For players who love a meaningful survival progression, a unique and elegant building system, and epic space-opera scale.
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Wayward Terran Frontier: Zero Falls
Single-player alternative to Gimbal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Gimbal.
2d space combat like no other. From the perspective of a single crew member, explore the fully destructible interior of any ship in a massive living world. Engage in space combat with no hitpoints where you know your enemy is dead when you see them fall out of their ship into the cold dark of space.
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Hardspace: Shipbreaker
Single-player alternative to Gimbal — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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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Ring Runner: Flight of the Sages
Single-player alternative to Gimbal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gimbal.
Ring Runner combines the fast-paced action of space combat with the rich story and skill variety of an RPG.Trek across the universe in a 30 hour long story-driven campaign based on a companion Sci Fi novel, or challenge 6 scenarios alone, cooperatively, or competitively through local or online multiplayer.
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Celestial Command
Single-player alternative to Gimbal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Gimbal.
Mine asteroids, salvage space debris, design your own small or massive spacecraft using individual functional components, complete missions, and engage in battles against enemies in a vast galaxy with realistic physics based on orbital mechanics or in a classic physics mode.