Single-player games like 1000 days to escape
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to 1000 days to escape, 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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Only One Burn
Single-player alternative to 1000 days to escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with 1000 days to escape.
Land the craft without crashing. Oh, and you only get one burn!
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Ace of Space
Single-player alternative to 1000 days to escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with 1000 days to escape.
You and your spaceship versus thousands of aliens! Blast through waves of aliens with upgradable spaceships in this sci-fi shoot ’em up game and become the Ace of Space!
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Hotloop
Single-player alternative to 1000 days to escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with 1000 days to escape.
Use the force of gravity in this fast-paced space shooter with realistic physics and orbital mechanics.
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PlanetMars3D: Spirit Mission
Single-player alternative to 1000 days to escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with 1000 days to escape.
Explore Mars in 3D through real Pancam photographs from NASA's Spirit rover. Glide between images with detail that sharpens as you approach, and skim thousands of rover photos at a glance — manual mode, slideshow, or automated flythrough. Photo credit: JPL / NASA / Cornell / ASU
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Floathink
Single-player alternative to 1000 days to escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with 1000 days to escape.
Floathink is an action puzzle game with physics and gravity, which objective is to reach the platform of each level with your spaceship as soon as you can, by avoiding several space obstacles.
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Caves Of Mars
Single-player alternative to 1000 days to escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with 1000 days to escape.
Caves of Mars is a new 2D sci-fi action adventure space shooter game set in the mysterious caves of the planet Mars. Your mission is to navigate your spacecraft through 100 procedurally generated levels, battle against and destroy enemies and alien lifeforms and collect as many gems as possible.
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Enter The Moon
Single-player alternative to 1000 days to escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Space simulation moon game. Explore the moon, mars, venus and mercury in breathtaking real-time 3D. Explore their geological aspects. Battle against spaceships or a secret lunar base. Enter the ISS. Measure the moon. And get in the cockpit.
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Outergalactic Aliens Pinball
Single-player alternative to 1000 days to escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with 1000 days to escape.
Outergalactic Aliens Pinball is a fast paced 8 flipper pinball game featuring 8 main missions, for more info check out our complete walkthrough guide! Get ready to battle the galaxy while listening to a twelve minute original soundtrack to keep the action rolling.
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Plague Inc: Evolved
Single-player alternative to 1000 days to escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with 1000 days to escape.
Plague Inc: Evolved is a unique mix of high strategy and terrifyingly realistic simulation. Your pathogen has just infected 'Patient Zero' - now you must bring about the end of human history by evolving a deadly, global Plague whilst adapting against everything humanity can do to defend itself.
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Elementowers
Single-player alternative to 1000 days to escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with 1000 days to escape.
Co-op tower defense where you don't have to build towers and just watch the battle. Get directly involved in combat. Team up with you friend in the war against the great evil that seized the kingdom!