Single-player games like Tachyon: The Fringe
Below are 19 single-player Steam games similar to Tachyon: The Fringe, 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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Project Freedom
Single-player alternative to Tachyon: The Fringe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Tachyon: The Fringe.
Get your dream job with a company called Project Freedom. Become a space pilot and serve for the corporation. You're going to get all the excitement and adventure you've ever wanted. Perhaps even more... 21 missions in the campaign Outstanding 3D graphics and special effects Original storyline with unexpected turns and surprises A...
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House of the Dying Sun
Single-player alternative to Tachyon: The Fringe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Tachyon: The Fringe.
House of the Dying Sun is a tactical space shooter that puts you in the cockpit of the universe's most terrifying starfighter. Hunt the enemies of the Empire and bring ruin to their people.
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Rebel Galaxy
Single-player alternative to Tachyon: The Fringe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Tachyon: The Fringe.
Rebel Galaxy is a swashbuckling space adventure, with action-packed combat, exploration, discovery, trade, and “negotiation” with the outlandish denizens at the edge of the known universe.
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SpaceCraft
Single-player alternative to Tachyon: The Fringe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Tachyon: The Fringe.
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.
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Surviving Mars
Single-player alternative to Tachyon: The Fringe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Tachyon: The Fringe.
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.
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Evochron Legacy SE
Single-player alternative to Tachyon: The Fringe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Tachyon: The Fringe.
Advanced Space Flight, Combat, Trading, and Exploration Simulation. Set in a vast explorable universe, Evochron Legacy offers freeform gameplay with many diverse objectives and paths to choose from.
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Kerbal Space Program
Single-player alternative to Tachyon: The Fringe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Tachyon: The Fringe.
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.
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Elite Dangerous
Single-player alternative to Tachyon: The Fringe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Tachyon: The Fringe.
Take control of your own starship and blaze your trail in an ever-changing galaxy. Master the arts of combat, mining and trade or venture out into the unknown across a 1:1 scale universe.
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Starmancer
Single-player alternative to Tachyon: The Fringe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Tachyon: The Fringe.
From a small 2-man team comes a unique space station management sim. Take on the role of an A.I commanding a lost space ark. Try not to let your crew run amok and wreck the place.
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Descent
Single-player alternative to Tachyon: The Fringe — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Welcome to Descent™ - 27 levels of the most mind-bending, stomach-churning action game ever. Featuring true 3-Dimensional worlds and six degrees of freedom.
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Freespace 2
Single-player alternative to Tachyon: The Fringe — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
FreeSpace 2, the follow up to the classic Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War is ready to engage you in the second round. Follow the Grand Terran Vasudan Alliance further into the mysteries of the Shivans. Get your flight stick and hit the flight deck. The last time was just a warm up.
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Delta Force: Black Hawk Down
Single-player alternative to Tachyon: The Fringe — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
In late 1993, the United States launched dual military operations in Mogadishu Somalia. Delta Force Operatives and Army Rangers were sent in to capture Somali warlords and restore order. Experience the intense combat of Operation Restore Hope in this ground breaking first person shooter.
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Delta Force 1
Single-player alternative to Tachyon: The Fringe — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
As a member of Delta Force — The Army's Elite, top secret special forces unit — the word 'impossible' is not in your vocabulary. In Delta Force, you will conduct missions swiftly and silently, in every possible terrain, under every imaginable condition and through unconventional means.
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Delta Force 2
Single-player alternative to Tachyon: The Fringe — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
You're a member of the U.S. Army's best kept secret: the elite SPECIAL OPERATIONS unit known as Delta Force, formed to BATTLE TERRORISM throughout the world. When the best of the rest can't handle the op, YOU are called into action. Can you handle THE JOB? Features FREE NovaWorld™: online gaming supporting up to 50 players.
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Delta Force Land Warrior
Single-player alternative to Tachyon: The Fringe — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Engage the enemy across vast outdoor environments and expansive indoor environments as you take control of the US Army's elite anti-terrorist unit. Delta Force Land Warrior™ introduces new weapons and characters for both single player and intense online multiplayer via NovaWorld.
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Comanche 4
Single-player alternative to Tachyon: The Fringe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Tachyon: The Fringe.
The best-selling Comanche series returns with this fast-paced action game that places you at the controls of a Comanche RAH-66 helicopter. In 6 single player campaigns and multiplayer, the game combines serious firepower with effortless controls and stunning, interactive terrain.
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Joint Operations: Combined Arms Gold
Single-player alternative to Tachyon: The Fringe — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The most ferocious online conflict of the 21st century is now available in its most definitive form: introducing Joint Operations: Combined Arms Gold, the largest multiplayer FPS collection ever. With the award-winning Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising and the bestselling Joint Operations: Escalation together in one convenient package,...
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Delta Force Xtreme 2
Single-player alternative to Tachyon: The Fringe — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Enemies lurk in locations around the globe, waiting for the right opportunity to strike. As part of Delta Force, the U.S. Army's most secretive and highly trained unit, you have the skills and the firepower to hunt them down and take them out.
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F-22 Lightning 3
Single-player alternative to Tachyon: The Fringe — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Tachyon: The Fringe.
Mass Destruction! Use tactical nuclear weapons to level entire city regions. The most realistic weather environments ever created. Changing weather effects including: rain, snow, hail, and wind. Extreme temperatures affect flight performance. Fly it yourself or let the world's most advanced fighter do it for you!