Single-player games like ORBITAL
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to ORBITAL, 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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Rakete
Single-player alternative to ORBITAL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with ORBITAL.
5 thrusters, one rocket. Can you land it safely? Touch anything and you'll die. Play by yourself or with your friends locally, each player controls a thruster. Let the insanity commence!
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Launch Window
Single-player alternative to ORBITAL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with ORBITAL.
Launch Window is a single player physics-based automation game where you establish supply chains across an entire solar system using orbital mechanics.
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INTERASTRA: Planet Survival
Single-player alternative to ORBITAL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with ORBITAL.
INTERASTRA is a fully immersive first-person sci-fi survival adventure game set in outer space. Discover unknown planets differing in weather conditions, resources, and various mysteries. Craft necessary equipment, launch, and control space rockets, explore the universe, and survive among the stars.
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Deep Space Exploitation
Single-player alternative to ORBITAL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with ORBITAL.
Deep Space Exploitation is a space mining game featuring 2D physics, fully destructible asteroids, and a story of survival under an exploitative corporation. Use your equipment wisely, upgrade your ship, and make difficult decisions to secure your future!
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Exo One
Single-player alternative to ORBITAL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with ORBITAL.
A strange signal... an alien craft... an interplanetary, gravity-defying journey through space and time.
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Space Haven
Single-player alternative to ORBITAL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with ORBITAL.
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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Surviving Mars
Single-player alternative to ORBITAL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with ORBITAL.
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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Stardeus
Single-player alternative to ORBITAL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with ORBITAL.
Stardeus is a deep colony sim set on a broken starship manned by drones and hibernating human survivors. As the AI, have your drones repair your ship, save your crew and travel the stars in this beautiful simulation.
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Feed the King
Single-player alternative to ORBITAL — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Build a medieval kitchen empire for a hungry king in this incremental cooking game. Click and automate food stations, refine better ingredients, craft richer dishes, serve nightly feasts, and decide when to poison the king for a powerful prestige reset.