Single-player games like The Long Drift
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to The Long Drift, 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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D.R.I.F.T.
Single-player alternative to The Long Drift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Long Drift.
A slow, system-driven space sim about contracts, reputation, and survival through careful decision-making, not combat or heroics.
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Gaia Beyond
Single-player alternative to The Long Drift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Long Drift.
Gaia Beyond is a handcrafted 2D Action-RPG, an exploration mix built around the core features fighting, mining and trading. Your decisions are footprints within a vast non-linear solar system. Forge alliances among numerous factions and develop relations with hundreds of NPCs.
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Belt Colony
Single-player alternative to The Long Drift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Long Drift.
The year is 2040. You, an ex-sergeant, have signed a contract with a large mining corporation in the Belt. Mine ore, build out your outpost, travel to nearby asteroids and collaborate with other belters.
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MEMORY DEALER
Single-player alternative to The Long Drift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Long Drift.
You are a memory trafficker. Harvest stolen memories from captive minds and sell more and more of them. Don't get addicted to your own supply or you'll lose them forever... A shady, relaxing cyberpunk idle game that lives on your desktop.
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Utopia Colony
Single-player alternative to The Long Drift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Long Drift.
The year is 2033. You, an ex-Marine with little opportunities left, have signed up with Utopia Arura, a large mining corporation on Mars. They have sent you to a location they have proposed but you have chosen for mining. Everything else is up to you.
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Surviving Mars: Pioneer
Single-player alternative to The Long Drift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with The Long Drift.
The Red Planet is vast, desolate, and utterly indifferent to your survival. Surviving Mars: Pioneer is the first made-for-VR entry in the Surviving Mars universe, challenging you to carve out an existence in one of the most hostile environments imaginable.
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Interstellar Rift
Single-player alternative to The Long Drift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Long Drift.
Interstellar Rift is an open world starship simulator with an emphasis on ship construction and multi-player interaction. Survive in a hostile galaxy with your own custom designed and constructed starship. Invite other players to join your crew or fight them across the galaxy!
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Drifter
Single-player alternative to The Long Drift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Long Drift.
Drifter is an open-world sandbox space trading game with a procedurally-generated galaxy 100,000 light years across made up of tens of thousands of star systems to explore and features an original soundtrack by composer Danny Baranowsky.
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The Unknown
Single-player alternative to The Long Drift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Long Drift.
Aboard a small spaceship, you embark on an exploration, daring to face the threats of the universe. Activate your spaceship and uncover the hidden secrets of this vast cosmos.
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ParryMaster
Single-player alternative to The Long Drift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Long Drift.
Defend yourself in this minimalist one-button incremental defense game. One hit, and it’s over.