Single-player games like Stellar Trader
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Stellar Trader, 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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X3: Terran Conflict
Single-player alternative to Stellar Trader — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Stellar Trader.
It is the year 2938. The long wished-for encounter of the X Universe and the Earth holds both joy and sorrow for the people. Despite flourishing trade, the clash of the diverse races, cultures and life forms creates new tensions, mistrust and open conflict that need to be overcome!
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X: Beyond the Frontier
Single-player alternative to Stellar Trader — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Stellar Trader.
The Human Race had advanced to the point where we could travel among the stars, we developed giant automated machines to help us colonise other worlds, but there was a fault in their programming and they turned and attacked. Forcing us to lay a trap to protect Earth and exiling the Human race to stay on Earth once again.
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Starpoint Gemini 2
Single-player alternative to Stellar Trader — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and RPG with Stellar Trader.
Captain your own space ship and roam the galaxy in 3D in this tactical space simulator with tons of RPG depth ! Space has never looked so inviting - but images can betray...It has been two years since the end of the second Gemini war, the situation in the wartorn system is further from resolution than ever.
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Project AURA
Single-player alternative to Stellar Trader — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Stellar Trader.
Project Aura is a micro management game where you lead a Colony of Climate Disaster Survivors. You have been assigned the mission to build an habitat capable of survival in this new unknown world.
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Rocket Science
Single-player alternative to Stellar Trader — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Stellar Trader.
Take part in a space program. Design spacecrafts and send them off to explore the vast expanses of space. Experience the real scale of the Solar system and the size of its celestial bodies.
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Transport Fever 2
Single-player alternative to Stellar Trader — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Stellar Trader.
The classic transport simulation genre has a new gold standard with Transport Fever 2. Discover a whole new world by navigating transport routes through land, water and air. May progress and prosperity find their way!
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Railway Empire 2
Single-player alternative to Stellar Trader — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Stellar Trader.
Don the coat of a clever entrepreneur, take over a small railway company in the early 1800s and turn your steam engines into the workhorses of the economy. Grow your company into the largest railway company of the continent and outsmart your competitors.
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Anno 2070™
Single-player alternative to Stellar Trader — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Stellar Trader.
Build your society of the future, colonize islands, and create sprawling megacities with multitudes of buildings, vehicles, and resources to manage.