Single-player games like My Galaxy Buddy
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to My Galaxy Buddy, 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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Desk Space: Idle Spacefleet clicker
Single-player alternative to My Galaxy Buddy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Casual with My Galaxy Buddy.
Grow your fleet of spaceships in this incremental space game. Mine asteroids and trade with stations, unlock upgrades to made more money, deploy pirates, and unlock [REDACTED]. Pin to your desktop and watch your empire grow while you do "more important" things.
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VOID PROFIT
Single-player alternative to My Galaxy Buddy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Galaxy Buddy.
Fly a rented ship in a procedurally-generated universe, navigate risky routes, and profit from changing markets before the opportunity disappears and you lose it all. Take jobs, navigate the markets, smuggle, lie. Do everything in order to keep flying.
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Peddlers Between Pulsars
Single-player alternative to My Galaxy Buddy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Galaxy Buddy.
Peddlers between Pulsars is a story focused shop sim with light logistics. Play as one of five peddlers as they try to fulfill odd tasks from a frustrated researcher.
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SpaceCasino
Single-player alternative to My Galaxy Buddy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Galaxy Buddy.
SpaceCasino is a simulation game where you freely customize your very own spherical planet. Earn chips at an authentic casino located in a dedicated area, purchase neon-lit buildings, and decorate your empty planet into a space of your own.
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Weird Wormholes
Single-player alternative to My Galaxy Buddy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with My Galaxy Buddy.
Weird Wormholes is a casual game about traveling through wormholes to try and get back home. Use your ship to mine planets for resources and process these resources into components to enable your travels.
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Intergalactic Storage Clearance
Single-player alternative to My Galaxy Buddy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Galaxy Buddy.
In this light-hearted adventure, you must outwit competitors in bidding wars to secure storage containers scattered across alien worlds. The objective is to uncover valuable objects hidden within them and turn a profit by selling them on the intergalactic market.
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Space Depot
Single-player alternative to My Galaxy Buddy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Galaxy Buddy.
A fast paced cooperative game where hippos run a growing space depot. Race against the clock to Scan, inspect, and ship the right materials using drones. Try to keep up. Other hipponauts such as yourself are relying on you.
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Little Aviary
Single-player alternative to My Galaxy Buddy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Galaxy Buddy.
Little Aviary is a relaxing idle bird collector that sits at the bottom of your screen! Hatch unique birds, sell them, decorate, then watch them fly around your screen and perch on top of your other windows!