Single-player games like Hired Stars
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Hired Stars, 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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Deep Space Outpost
Single-player alternative to Hired Stars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hired Stars.
Deep Space Outpost is a space station building & survival game, involving resource and base management. Build your space station tile by tile, mine asteroids, refine materials and keep your station operational.
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Nebuchadnezzar
Single-player alternative to Hired Stars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hired Stars.
Create and customize cities in Nebuchadnezzar, a classic isometric city-builder where careful planning and define your rise as a ruler in ancient Mesopotamia.
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Ostranauts
Single-player alternative to Hired Stars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hired Stars.
Navigate your scrappy ship through the boneyard in search of valuable parts in abandoned vessels. Use salvage to upgrade your ship, or sell it for cash to pay down your mounting debt, or restock fuel, air, or food. Fly and role-play aboard your dream spaceship in this hardcore noir space-sim.
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Rank: Warmaster
Single-player alternative to Hired Stars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Hired Stars.
Stranded on Mars with next to nothing, build a city, assemble a fleet, and expand your empire to survive a hostile solar system in this new take that combines elements of space combat and RTS inspired by the classics.
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Star Traders: Frontiers
Single-player alternative to Hired Stars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Hired Stars.
You are the captain of a starship venturing through a massive open universe. Customize your crew and take command at the helm of your very own ship as you explore a galaxy torn apart by internal strife, alien threats, and political intrigue.
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Solar Imperium
Single-player alternative to Hired Stars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hired Stars.
Crash-land on an unknown world and build your settlement hex by hex across its entire globe. Then take it to the stars: a real-time grand strategy game where you zoom from one colony's roads out to a galaxy held by ancient powers that play by the same rules you do.
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Starminer
Single-player alternative to Hired Stars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Hired Stars.
Design and build a massive interstellar fleet in this simulation sandbox. Strip space of its minerals for profit, but stay alert: your greed attracts the alien. Master deep base-building and deploy warships to protect your empire in immersive real-time space.
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Warehouse Tycoon
Single-player alternative to Hired Stars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hired Stars.
Warehouse Tycoon is a journey to Warehouse Legendary! Brave the business war. Today's dog in the water must be the crown in the city! With the company's destiny in your hands, every success drives you farther. Use your wisdom and guts to build a warehouse Empire!