Single-player games like eXoSpace Combat Engineer
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to eXoSpace Combat Engineer, 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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Spaceship Simulator
Single-player alternative to eXoSpace Combat Engineer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with eXoSpace Combat Engineer.
Design your own spacecraft with captured components in an unknown galaxy to defeat strange space creatures and finally escape from the galaxy.
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Asteroid Colony
Single-player alternative to eXoSpace Combat Engineer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with eXoSpace Combat Engineer.
In this real time strategy city builder game you will help humanity in reaching beyond earth by establishing a permanent and thriving settlement in the asteroid belt. Settling in space comes with enormous challenges and dangers, which you will have to guide your people through
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Belt Colony
Single-player alternative to eXoSpace Combat Engineer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with eXoSpace Combat Engineer.
The year is 2040. You, an ex-sergeant, have signed a contract with a large mining corporation in the Belt. Mine ore, build out your outpost, travel to nearby asteroids and collaborate with other belters.
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Lonely tiny spaceship
Single-player alternative to eXoSpace Combat Engineer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with eXoSpace Combat Engineer.
A shooter in the space arena, in which you grow from a small, clumsy to a powerful capital spaceship, using resources obtained from destroyed hordes of enemies and other cosmic evil.
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Starminer
Single-player alternative to eXoSpace Combat Engineer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with eXoSpace Combat Engineer.
Design and build an interstellar mining fleet to strip space of its invaluable minerals, and sell them for a tidy profit. But beware. Your greed will attract the alien. Use warships and defense platforms to protect your fleet at all costs - in real space, in real time.
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Jump Space
Single-player alternative to eXoSpace Combat Engineer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with eXoSpace Combat Engineer.
Jump Space (formerly Jump Ship) is a mission based co-op PvE for 1-4 players, where you are the crew of a spaceship. Transition seamlessly from crewing the ship to on-foot exploration and space walks. Explore, upgrade, and survive intense encounters in deep space together.
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Dimensions: Dreadnought Architect
Single-player alternative to eXoSpace Combat Engineer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with eXoSpace Combat Engineer.
Unleash your creativity, design your dreadnought with a variety of modules, and have complete control over the function and style of each module. Command your battleship with wisdom and decisiveness. Gallop in the vast galaxy and destroy all enemies.
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Reassembly
Single-player alternative to eXoSpace Combat Engineer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with eXoSpace Combat Engineer.
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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Star Valor
Single-player alternative to eXoSpace Combat Engineer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with eXoSpace Combat Engineer.
Choose your own destiny as you explore an open-world procedurally generated galaxy where anything is possible. Become a miner, a trader, a bounty hunter, a pirate, or perhaps a jack of all trades. Start off small and build your way to the top but remember with every action, comes consequences.