Single-player games like Space Engineers 2
Below are 17 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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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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Starship EVO
Single-player alternative to Space Engineers 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Engineers 2.
Mine and craft your way to orbit, build your own starship and explore a vast, dangerous galaxy alongside your crew. For players who love a meaningful survival progression, a unique and elegant building system, and epic space-opera scale.
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Avorion
Single-player alternative to Space Engineers 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Engineers 2.
A procedural co-op space sandbox where players can build their own space ships out of dynamically scalable blocks. Fight epic space battles, explore, mine, trade, wage wars and build your own empire to save your galaxy from being torn apart by an unknown enemy.
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Planet Coaster
Single-player alternative to Space Engineers 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Engineers 2.
Planet Coaster® - the future of coaster park simulation games has arrived! Surprise, delight and thrill incredible crowds as you build your coaster park empire - let your imagination run wild, and share your success with the world.
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QANGA
Single-player alternative to Space Engineers 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Engineers 2.
QANGA: 750 years after humanity's fall, you must survive in a shattered world where Earth itself demands vengeance. Tear through the fabric of space to face the Voss, awaken the ancient civilisation, and dare to challenge the Sanglines, born from the bowels of a world that condemned you.
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Elite Dangerous
Single-player alternative to Space Engineers 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Engineers 2.
Take control of your own starship and blaze your trail in an ever-changing galaxy. Master the arts of combat, mining and trade or venture out into the unknown across a 1:1 scale universe.
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Out of Ore
Single-player alternative to Space Engineers 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Space Engineers 2.
A casual heavy equipment experience. Mine ore, Move dirt, Build and repair.
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Hardspace: Shipbreaker
Single-player alternative to Space Engineers 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Space Engineers 2.
Equipped with cutting-edge salvaging tech, carve & slice spaceships to recover valuable materials. Upgrade your gear to take on more lucrative contracts and pay your billion credits debt to LYNX Corp!
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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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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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Stationeers
Single-player alternative to Space Engineers 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Engineers 2.
Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!
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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.