Single-player games like Space Station Alpha
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Space Station Alpha, 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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Surviving Mars
Single-player alternative to Space Station Alpha — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Space Station Alpha.
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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Aven Colony
Single-player alternative to Space Station Alpha — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Station Alpha.
Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.
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Spacebase DF-9
Single-player alternative to Space Station Alpha — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Station Alpha.
In Spacebase DF-9, you'll build a home among the stars for a motley population of humans and aliens as they go about their daily lives. Mine asteroids, discover derelicts, and deal with the tribulations of galactic resettlement in Earth's distant future.
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Planetbase
Single-player alternative to Space Station Alpha — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Station Alpha.
Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.
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Space Haven
Single-player alternative to Space Station Alpha — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Station Alpha.
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
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Pizza Connection 3
Single-player alternative to Space Station Alpha — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Space Station Alpha.
Mamma mia... Long awaited by fans around the world, the new installment of the cult series "Pizza Connection" returns to the PC with even more flavour and extra cheese. Make 'em a pizza they can't refuse!
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Sol 0: Mars Colonization
Single-player alternative to Space Station Alpha — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Station Alpha.
Sol 0 is a real time strategy game where you establish the first Martian colony. From the first human footprints on Martian soil to a thriving and self-sustaining colony, Sol 0 imagines a near future using technology that could be available within the next few decades.
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Meeple Station
Single-player alternative to Space Station Alpha — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Station Alpha.
Build your way to success! Trade your way to the top! Explore your way to infamy! Do it all your way!
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Prison Architect
Single-player alternative to Space Station Alpha — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Station Alpha.
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
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Startopia
Single-player alternative to Space Station Alpha — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Space Station Alpha.
A once thriving network of space stations and planets have been left lifeless, redundant scars of the apocalypse. Into this age of darkness comes light. You will lead the way in rebuilding the network of space stations to a standard accepted by the individual alien races, attracting them to harness their expertise and research new...
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Banished
Single-player alternative to Space Station Alpha — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Station Alpha.
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.