Single-player games like Stormworks: Build and Rescue
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Stormworks: Build and Rescue, 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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I Fetch Rocks
Single-player alternative to Stormworks: Build and Rescue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Stormworks: Build and Rescue.
Embark on your asteroid hauling career with Veritago Fortana. Start with a basic ship and earn credits to upgrade, customise and repair as you try to fulfil larger and harder contracts. Built exclusively for VR, use your own hands to build, wire and fly using 100s of interconnecting components.
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Desynced
Single-player alternative to Stormworks: Build and Rescue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Stormworks: Build and Rescue.
Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.
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Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure
Single-player alternative to Stormworks: Build and Rescue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Stormworks: Build and Rescue.
Oddsparks is a blend of automation and real-time strategy for both the die-hard fans of the automation genre and the automation-curious. Explore a strange fantasy world, uncover the mysteries of the past, automate your workshops, and go on adventures with your odd & adorable Sparks!
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SimplePlanes
Single-player alternative to Stormworks: Build and Rescue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Stormworks: Build and Rescue.
Build airplanes by snapping parts together, designing wing sections, and attaching engines. At any time, you can strap yourself into the cockpit and see how it flies with realistic physics. If you're not in the mood for building, over 100,000 airplanes are available to download for free.
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Rail Route
Single-player alternative to Stormworks: Build and Rescue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Stormworks: Build and Rescue.
In Rail Route, you will design, construct, upgrade, and automate your railway network in one of the many maps based on real-life cities worldwide. Dispatch the trains to make the traffic flow and the network grow!
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Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to Stormworks: Build and Rescue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Stormworks: Build and Rescue.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
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Factorio
Single-player alternative to Stormworks: Build and Rescue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Stormworks: Build and Rescue.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
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Transport Fever 2
Single-player alternative to Stormworks: Build and Rescue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Stormworks: Build and Rescue.
The classic transport simulation genre has a new gold standard with Transport Fever 2. Discover a whole new world by navigating transport routes through land, water and air. May progress and prosperity find their way!
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Space Engineers
Single-player alternative to Stormworks: Build and Rescue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Stormworks: Build and Rescue.
Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.
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Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
Single-player alternative to Stormworks: Build and Rescue — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
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Carrier Command 2
Single-player alternative to Stormworks: Build and Rescue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Stormworks: Build and Rescue.
Carrier Command 2 is the real-time strategy game that puts you in command of a futuristic carrier capable of deploying a vast array of aircraft and amphibious units. Compete against AI or human players and hop into every single vehicle to take matters into your own hands!
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Carrier Command 2 VR
Single-player alternative to Stormworks: Build and Rescue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Stormworks: Build and Rescue.
Carrier Command 2 VR is now available as part of Carrier Command 2, using the VR launch option!