Single-player games like 5th Frontier, The New Space Race
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to 5th Frontier, The New Space Race, 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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Kepler Protocol
Single-player alternative to 5th Frontier, The New Space Race — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with 5th Frontier, The New Space Race.
Kepler-186e, Humanity's first colony — on a world that is not theirs. Lead the Kaiserreich in turn-based hex strategy against the Ordo Arachnis, a swarm intelligence with no commander. Research, build, supply, fight. Survive.
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Search for Sol
Single-player alternative to 5th Frontier, The New Space Race — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with 5th Frontier, The New Space Race.
The children of long-extinct humanity desperately search for the legendary artifact system of Sol. Search for Sol is a sci-fi 4X in the tradition of Reach for the Stars, Master of Orion, and Star Traders. Control Sol for 50 years to ascend to flesh once again.
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Space Opera
Single-player alternative to 5th Frontier, The New Space Race — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with 5th Frontier, The New Space Race.
Found colonies, create spaceships from modules, colonize planets, form alliances and destroy your opponents in a turn-based game.
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ASTRA LIMES: Belt Operations
Single-player alternative to 5th Frontier, The New Space Race — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with 5th Frontier, The New Space Race.
Command fleets in this indirect control RTS game set within treacherous asteroid belts. Easily design your own skirmishes for a quick 15-minute battle or dive into an hours-long campaign of high-risk surgical strikes and systematic border advancement.
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Solar Imperium
Single-player alternative to 5th Frontier, The New Space Race — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with 5th Frontier, The New Space Race.
Crash-land on an unknown world and build your settlement hex by hex across its entire globe. Then take it to the stars: a real-time grand strategy game where you zoom from one colony's roads out to a galaxy held by ancient powers that play by the same rules you do.
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Imperialist
Single-player alternative to 5th Frontier, The New Space Race — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with 5th Frontier, The New Space Race.
From a veteran 4X Strategy developer comes a new deep strategy game of logistics, empire, and control. Develop the New World, industrialise your capital, manage your growing Empire, and outmanoeuvre rivals to become history's first Superpower. Can you exploit the New World to control the Old?
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Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander (LIGHTSPEED EDITION)
Single-player alternative to 5th Frontier, The New Space Race — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with 5th Frontier, The New Space Race.
A retro space strategy RPG with base building, deep tactical combat, crew management and emergent storytelling. Halcyon 6: Lightspeed Edition is a massively enhanced version of the Award Winning indie strategy RPG, Halcyon 6.
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Xenonauts 2
Single-player alternative to 5th Frontier, The New Space Race — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with 5th Frontier, The New Space Race.
Wage a global war of resistance against an alien invasion. Command turn-based tactical battles, build a network of covert bases, directly control your fighter wings, and achieve strategic victory in a simulation of asymmetric warfare against a technologically superior foe.
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'1st Core: The Zombie Killing Cyborg'
Single-player alternative to 5th Frontier, The New Space Race — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A Zombie Survival Action shooter, with a Cyborgs and Weapons.
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2nd Circle - Powerful Magic
Single-player alternative to 5th Frontier, The New Space Race — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with 5th Frontier, The New Space Race.
Did you ever dare to imagine that within this bleak, frigid world lies a realm of enchantment? Concealed in the obscure corners of this world, you'll find the undead, specters, and the mystical arts.
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3rd Invasion - Zombies vs. Steel
Single-player alternative to 5th Frontier, The New Space Race — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with 5th Frontier, The New Space Race.
In this game Strategy is the key to Survival. You need an awesome Grand Strategy to win this war. A RTS action game with an Cool Base Building feature.
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4 Classes, Many Paths
Single-player alternative to 5th Frontier, The New Space Race — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with 5th Frontier, The New Space Race.
Step into a vast, living world shaped by ancient magic and forgotten wars. Dragons rule the skies, demons stalk the Deep Dungeons, and every path is yours to forge. Buy now and claim your destiny.