Single-player games like Intergalactic Fishing
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Intergalactic Fishing, 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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Inspiral: Echoes of Gravity
Single-player alternative to Intergalactic Fishing — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Intergalactic Fishing.
Start as an asteroid, grow by absorbing other celestial bodies to become a planet, a star, and ultimately a black hole. Experience realistic gravity and orbital physics in an ever-evolving sandbox universe.
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ΔV: Rings of Saturn
Single-player alternative to Intergalactic Fishing — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Intergalactic Fishing.
A physics-based mining sim, set in the thickest debris field in Sol. Every action has a reaction, lasers are invisible without a medium, and your thrust is a potent weapon. Find trade, adapt your equipment to your playstyle, hire a crew to help. Unravel the mysteries of the rings, or just get rich.
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Star Traders: Frontiers
Single-player alternative to Intergalactic Fishing — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Intergalactic Fishing.
You are the captain of a starship venturing through a massive open universe. Customize your crew and take command at the helm of your very own ship as you explore a galaxy torn apart by internal strife, alien threats, and political intrigue.
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Cloudscape
Single-player alternative to Intergalactic Fishing — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Intergalactic Fishing.
You wake up on an uninhabited island. Gather resources and craft tools to help you survive. Find a way off of the island to discover new lands filled with new resources, villagers and much more! Can you solve the mystery of the monsters, uncover your past and transform your island into a paradise?
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Approaching Infinity
Single-player alternative to Intergalactic Fishing — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Intergalactic Fishing.
Approaching Infinity is a turn-based space RPG in the spirit of the sci-fi classics, with endless progression and exploration. Fight tactical battles or use diplomacy. Seek powerful artifacts. Quest, mine, trade, and craft. Level up forever or attempt 10 victories in hardcore or adventure mode.
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Star Valor
Single-player alternative to Intergalactic Fishing — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Intergalactic Fishing.
Choose your own destiny as you explore an open-world procedurally generated galaxy where anything is possible. Become a miner, a trader, a bounty hunter, a pirate, or perhaps a jack of all trades. Start off small and build your way to the top but remember with every action, comes consequences.
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Ostranauts
Single-player alternative to Intergalactic Fishing — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Intergalactic Fishing.
Navigate your scrappy ship through the boneyard in search of valuable parts in abandoned vessels. Use salvage to upgrade your ship, or sell it for cash to pay down your mounting debt, or restock fuel, air, or food. Fly and role-play aboard your dream spaceship in this hardcore noir space-sim.
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Caves of Qud
Single-player alternative to Intergalactic Fishing — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Intergalactic Fishing.
Inhabit a deeply-simulated science fantasy world and chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations. Build a character from over a hundred mutations and cybernetics. The award-winning sandbox roguelike & RPG full of robots, deep lore, and sentient plants.
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No Man's Sky
Single-player alternative to Intergalactic Fishing — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
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Super Motherload
Single-player alternative to Intergalactic Fishing — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Intergalactic Fishing.
Set on Mars in an alternate Cold-War era, Super Motherload is a 1 to 4-player couch co-op digging adventure with storyline by Image Comics' Kurtis Wiebe, a fully voiced cast of Soviet and American characters, and a procedurally-generated world that changes each time you play.