Single-player games like Orbit: Satellite Defense
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Orbit: Satellite Defense, 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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Polaris Sector
Single-player alternative to Orbit: Satellite Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Orbit: Satellite Defense.
Can anyone build an empire in a place like this? Other factions are naturally suspicious of newcomers and may wage war at the first sign of unidentified craft. Here, a natural death is an uncommon luxury.
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Supreme Commander
Single-player alternative to Orbit: Satellite Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Orbit: Satellite Defense.
For a thousand years, three opposing forces have waged war for what they believe is true. There can be no room for compromise: their way is the only way. Dubbed The Infinite War, this devastating conflict has taken its toll on a once-peaceful galaxy and has only served to deepen the hatred between the factions.
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Distant Worlds: Universe
Single-player alternative to Orbit: Satellite Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Orbit: Satellite Defense.
Distant Worlds is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game. Experience the full depth and detail of turn-based strategy, but with the simplicity and ease of real-time, and on the scale of a massively-multiplayer online game.
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Battlevoid: Sector Siege
Single-player alternative to Orbit: Satellite Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Orbit: Satellite Defense.
Battlevoid: Sector Siege is an epic straight into action real-time space strategy game, in which the world has been built to deliver a lively battle field; and the action is never more than just seconds away at the start of every game.
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Earth 2160
Single-player alternative to Orbit: Satellite Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Orbit: Satellite Defense.
After the destruction of the EARTH in 2150, the leaders of the Eurasian Dynasty escaped on board an evacuation fleet. Now they are fighting for the survival of the human species. Their base is one large building comprising of smaller variable parts.
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Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance
Single-player alternative to Orbit: Satellite Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Orbit: Satellite Defense.
The last days of man are at hand.. Two years after the Infinite War the once great warring nations now lie in ruins, and humanity’s hope for a brighter future is nothing but a bitter memory. A new, seemingly unstoppable enemy, supported by the zealots of The Order, now seeks to eradicate mankind: UEF, Aeon Loyalist, and Cybran alike.
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Original War
Single-player alternative to Orbit: Satellite Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Orbit: Satellite Defense.
An American geological expedition, under a UN mandate, assesses the natural resources in a distant part of Siberia, deep in the trackless steppes of Eastern Russia. But instead of oil, they discover a deposit of a hitherto unknown mineral.
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Tower of Time
Single-player alternative to Orbit: Satellite Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Orbit: Satellite Defense.
A new kind of RPG awaits you. A story-rich dungeon crawler with innovative real-time combat that lets you pause or slow time. Tactical thinking is essential to succeed. Now with RPGlite and Permadeath for fast-paced game.
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Robo's World: The Zarnok Fortress
Single-player alternative to Orbit: Satellite Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Orbit: Satellite Defense.
Robo’s World: The Zarnok Fortress isn't your average Action-Platformer. Take on the vast, interconnected Fortress, and battle an ever learning foe who seeks to repair each zone you sabotage. Can you master your abilities to put an end to the dark reign of the Zarnok once and for all?
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10mg: Stroke
Single-player alternative to Orbit: Satellite Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Orbit: Satellite Defense.
The memory of a medical emergency crafted into an Interactive Fiction. How will you act when someone you love is in the middle of a medical emergency and all you can do is wait?