Single-player games like Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Dead Reckoning: 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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夕照原
Single-player alternative to Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift.
《夕照原》是一款另类的殖民地建设游戏，作为一名普通市民，你无法操纵他人，只能依靠自己的努力，去创造影响。 但请相信，城市不会辜负于你。
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Orbital Abyss: Cipher Division
Single-player alternative to Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift.
Decipher interstellar transmissions encoded via substitution ciphers aboard Eremite Station. In this choice driven narrative, uncover secrets from planetary factions while conversing with crewmates to reveal their stories and troubles. The ripples of your choices may be felt throughout the galaxy.
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Study Abroad Sim
Single-player alternative to Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift.
A life simulation game inspired by the real experiences of international students. Study, survive, pay rent, manage your mental health, and build your life in foreign cities across the world.
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Company Captain: Westashes
Single-player alternative to Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift.
You are the captain of a free company — one among many roaming this mercenary world, growing, falling, earning and betraying just as you do. The world will not bend for you, nor wait: the other companies are already writing their stories. Yours will be decided in steel, gold and a name.
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MoonShot
Single-player alternative to Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift.
You're a NASA intern working on the Apollo 11 project. Each day, you have a checklist to complete. Your tasks are well-reasoned and appropriate to your skill level as an intern. The Apollo team are all competent professionals. Everything goes very well, and you have no difficulties at all. 😛
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Purrfect Galaxies
Single-player alternative to Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift.
Purrfect Galaxies is a text-based strategy game. As the ruler of the planet Cataris, hungry cats await your decisions. Will you let your meowpurrlation bask in catnip bliss, or will they unsheathe their claws and seal your doom?
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Generation Nova
Single-player alternative to Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift.
Manage a colony of people who woke too soon from their cryo-sleep. Build and manage a working generation ship and hopefully one day the grandchildren of the first generation might land on a habitable planet.
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Ares Inception
Single-player alternative to Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Dead Reckoning: The Long Drift.
You're the intelligent electronics of a Mars mission. Four capable crew members. You are not one of them. Your job: keep them alive and happy, they're the only ones who can succeed. Built under the advice of real astronauts, engineers & planetary scientists, the big decisions are yours to make.