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Single-player games like STARS COMMANDER

Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to STARS COMMANDER, 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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    Launch Window — Steam game cover

    Launch Window

    Single-player alternative to STARS COMMANDER — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    Launch Window is a single player physics-based automation game where you establish supply chains across an entire solar system using orbital mechanics.

    SimulationEarly AccessSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Frontier Pilot Simulator — Steam game cover

    Frontier Pilot Simulator

    Single-player alternative to STARS COMMANDER — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with STARS COMMANDER.

    FPS is a Sci-Fi cargo pilot sim, with an engaging emergent mission-driven storyline, with a real-time economy with free flight and trading, on an alien world to explore. All in customizable upgradeable, well-simulated VTOL craft with real weather, and flight dynamics.

    2021IndieAdventureSimulation24.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    PULSAR: Lost Colony — Steam game cover

    PULSAR: Lost Colony

    Single-player alternative to STARS COMMANDER — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with STARS COMMANDER.

    The co-op open-world space sim where everyone has a role! Pilot the ship. Reroute power. Launch nukes. Explore alien planets. Research new talents. Work together to find the Lost Colony! ...or just deliver some biscuits

    2021ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Avorion — Steam game cover

    Avorion

    Single-player alternative to STARS COMMANDER — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with STARS COMMANDER.

    A procedural co-op space sandbox where players can build their own space ships out of dynamically scalable blocks. Fight epic space battles, explore, mine, trade, wage wars and build your own empire to save your galaxy from being torn apart by an unknown enemy.

    2020ActionIndieSimulation24.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Fractal Block World — Steam game cover

    Fractal Block World

    Single-player alternative to STARS COMMANDER — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with STARS COMMANDER.

    This is a surreal exploration game. Explore a massive fractal with great complexities. You can shrink infinitely to go deeper into the fractal. Or you can become larger by growing. Inner space awaits you in this infinite world.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure6.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Space Reign — Steam game cover

    Space Reign

    Single-player alternative to STARS COMMANDER — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with STARS COMMANDER.

    An indie space-sim and strategy game featuring ship and fleet combat mixed with RTS elements. Complete contracts and Claim sectors for your faction in the near-future, where resource exploiting corporations are in a state of constant conflict over territory control.

    2026ActionStrategyIndie15.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    SpaceCraft — Steam game cover

    SpaceCraft

    Single-player alternative to STARS COMMANDER — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with STARS COMMANDER.

    The Universe is yours. SpaceCraft is an online space exploration and building game. Explore a vast galaxy of solar systems and planets, mine and craft resources, design and build ships, automate planetary bases and interplanetary logistics, trade and cooperate.

    2026IndieAdventureSimulation26.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Rebel Galaxy Outlaw — Steam game cover

    Rebel Galaxy Outlaw

    Single-player alternative to STARS COMMANDER — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with STARS COMMANDER.

    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.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure29.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    SQUARE BOX — Steam game cover

    SQUARE BOX

    Single-player alternative to STARS COMMANDER — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with STARS COMMANDER.

    Square Box: a game with the ball falling in a box.

    2017IndieSimulation0.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    METALWORKING — Steam game cover

    METALWORKING

    Single-player alternative to STARS COMMANDER — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with STARS COMMANDER.

    This is a metalworking workshop simulator. He enters the industry and works as a skilled worker. Manage robotic islands. Drive the forklift and procure the raw material. Make a difference with your muscle strength and experience.

    2021IndieSimulation0.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The drawing of the Apocalypse — Steam game cover

    The drawing of the Apocalypse

    Single-player alternative to STARS COMMANDER — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with STARS COMMANDER.

    This is the narrative of the Apocalypse of John, the last book of the Bible, told with the use of images pre-generated by artificial intelligence and accompanied by a short caption.

    2024IndieCasual0.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →