Single-player games like Space Engineers 2
Below are 18 single-player Steam games similar to Space Engineers 2, 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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Frick It
Single-player alternative to Space Engineers 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Engineers 2.
Survive with your friends in the depths of a massive pit. Scavenge parts, trade with silly villagers, upgrade your vehicle, fight deadly creatures, and uncover the stories of the robots who fell before you. Fly your way back to the surface.
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Space Travellers
Single-player alternative to Space Engineers 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Engineers 2.
Space Travellers is a unique open-world sandbox space simulator set in the year 2343. Travel the galaxy, trade, explore unexplored worlds, fight, build bases and factories, forge alliances and experience new adventures!
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Space Engineers
Single-player alternative to Space Engineers 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Engineers 2.
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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WorldDrive: Real Open-World Driving Simulator
Single-player alternative to Space Engineers 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Space Engineers 2.
Drive the roads you know. WorldDrive recreates real cities and roads at 1:1 scale—starting with a 30 km² region of Poland in Early Access. Free drive, explore, and share the road with realistic AI traffic.
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死前30天
Single-player alternative to Space Engineers 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Engineers 2.
你是工作在异星太空站上的员工，突然！全体船员感染了致命的太空病毒，生命只剩30天！而公司领导以不可抗力为由，拒绝赔付医疗保险！也拒绝任何救助！只剩30天了，食物不足，氧气不足，太空站上各种故障，脚下多颗神秘的异星球....你们要如何生存下去，对抗草菅人命的巨型公司？来！赶快行动起来！你只剩30天！
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Starcrest
Single-player alternative to Space Engineers 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Engineers 2.
Build, pilot, and crew custom physics-driven spacecraft in a persistent online universe. Explore distant worlds, mine and trade for resources, and band together in factions to fight for territorial control. Carve out your empire in an ever evolving infinite online galaxy.
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Galactic Simulator 3
Single-player alternative to Space Engineers 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Engineers 2.
Galactic Simulator 3 is a space exploration and evolution sim inspired by the Fermi Paradox and Great Filter theory. Scan uncharted star systems, gather resources and samples, establish outposts and stargates, and witness the rise and fall of civilizations across an ever-evolving galaxy.
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Gazebo Simulator
Single-player alternative to Space Engineers 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Simulation with Space Engineers 2.
An absurdist 3D platformer.
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Mortal Kombat 1
Single-player alternative to Space Engineers 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Space Engineers 2.
Discover a reborn Mortal Kombat™ Universe created by the Fire God Liu Kang. Mortal Kombat™ 1 ushers in a new era of the iconic franchise with a new fighting system, game modes, and fatalities!
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Space Haven
Single-player alternative to Space Engineers 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Engineers 2.
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
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Starvector
Single-player alternative to Space Engineers 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Engineers 2.
Eat a snack while you watch an entire planet burn in your image.
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X3: Terran Conflict
Single-player alternative to Space Engineers 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Engineers 2.
It is the year 2938. The long wished-for encounter of the X Universe and the Earth holds both joy and sorrow for the people. Despite flourishing trade, the clash of the diverse races, cultures and life forms creates new tensions, mistrust and open conflict that need to be overcome!
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Starbound
Single-player alternative to Space Engineers 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Engineers 2.
You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...
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X4: Foundations
Single-player alternative to Space Engineers 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Engineers 2.
Your journey to building a vast space empire begins behind the controls of a single ship. Explore, trade, fight, and build as you rise to command fleets, stations, and entire economies in a living, fully simulated universe that reacts to every decision.
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X2: The Threat
Single-player alternative to Space Engineers 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Space Engineers 2.
X²: The Threat is of a new generation of space simulator games, you play the role of Julian Gardna who continues the story set by X: Beyond The Frontier. The updated graphics engine gives the universe a fresher feel with newly designed ships and stations adding to the complexity of the universe.
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Medieval Engineers
Single-player alternative to Space Engineers 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Engineers 2.
Medieval Engineers is a sandbox game about engineering, construction and the maintenance of architectural works and mechanical equipment using medieval technology. Players build castles; construct mechanical devices and underground mining. There is an entire planet to explore!
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Miner Wars 2081
Single-player alternative to Space Engineers 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Engineers 2.
Operate an advanced mining ship in a fully destructible and open-world environment!
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Miner Wars Arena
Single-player alternative to Space Engineers 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Engineers 2.
Fast-paced arcade game inspired by the classic PC game, Tunneler, with state-of-the-art top-down view, 2.5D gameplay in a fully destructible environment. Enjoy unlimited gameplay variation by adjusting arena settings, such as terrain, map size, number of AI-controlled bots, technology level and many more.