Single-player games like Hardspace: Shipbreaker
Below are 23 single-player Steam games similar to Hardspace: Shipbreaker, 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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Star Trucker
Single-player alternative to Hardspace: Shipbreaker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
Haul cargo, trade salvage and keep your space suit close as you search for fame and fortune among the stars in a game that puts an interstellar twist on the truck sim genre.
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Space Engineers
Single-player alternative to Hardspace: Shipbreaker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
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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Kerbal Space Program
Single-player alternative to Hardspace: Shipbreaker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
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Surviving Mars
Single-player alternative to Hardspace: Shipbreaker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
There will be challenges to overcome. Execute your strategy and improve your colony’s chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world. Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.
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Dyson Sphere Program
Single-player alternative to Hardspace: Shipbreaker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
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Ostranauts
Single-player alternative to Hardspace: Shipbreaker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
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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Elite Dangerous
Single-player alternative to Hardspace: Shipbreaker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
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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Deep Space Exploitation
Single-player alternative to Hardspace: Shipbreaker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
Deep Space Exploitation is a space mining game featuring 2D physics, fully destructible asteroids, and a story of survival under an exploitative corporation. Use your equipment wisely, upgrade your ship, and make difficult decisions to secure your future!
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PowerWash Simulator
Single-player alternative to Hardspace: Shipbreaker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
Release the Pressure with PowerWash Simulator! Wash away your worries with the soothing sounds of high-pressure water. Fire up your power washer and blast away every speck of dirt and grime you can find, all with the simple satisfaction of power-washing to a sparkling finish.
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Viscera Cleanup Detail
Single-player alternative to Hardspace: Shipbreaker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
In Viscera Cleanup Detail, you step into the boots of a space-station janitor tasked with cleaning up after various horrific sci-fi horror events. Instead of machineguns and plasma-rifles, your tools are a mop and bucket. That hero left a mess, and it's up to you to deal with the aftermath.
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Sunshine Heavy Industries
Single-player alternative to Hardspace: Shipbreaker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
Welcome to Sunshine Heavy Industries! As the new spaceship engineer, solve increasingly tricky design puzzles with your own personal style. Manage customer demands, juggle budget and ship performance, and survive the questionable decision making skills of your business partner.
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Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to Hardspace: Shipbreaker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
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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Car Mechanic Simulator 2021
Single-player alternative to Hardspace: Shipbreaker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
Work your way to a service empire. Get your hands dirty in a highly realistic simulation game that pays major attention to details. Pay a visit to a new Auction house and buy cars in various conditions. Expand your range of services by investing in a new work space and equipment.
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Car Mechanic Simulator 2018
Single-player alternative to Hardspace: Shipbreaker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
Build and expand your repair service empire in this incredibly detailed and highly realistic simulation game, where attention to car detail is astonishing. Find classic, unique cars in the new Barn Find module and Junkyard module. You can even add your self-made car in the Car Editor.
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PC Building Simulator
Single-player alternative to Hardspace: Shipbreaker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
Build and grow your very own computer repair enterprise as you learn to diagnose, fix and build PCs. With real-world licensed components and comprehensive hardware and software simulation, you can plan and bring your ultimate PC to life.
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House Flipper
Single-player alternative to Hardspace: Shipbreaker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
House Flipper is a unique chance to become a one-man renovation crew. Buy, repair and remodel devastated houses. Give them a second life and sell them at a profit!
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Escape the Backrooms
Single-player alternative to Hardspace: Shipbreaker — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Escape the Backrooms is a 1-4 player co-op horror exploration game. Traverse 30+ eerie backrooms levels while avoiding entities and other dangers. Try to escape but be warned: survival isn't guaranteed.
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Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak
Single-player alternative to Hardspace: Shipbreaker — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A ground-based RTS prequel to the classic Homeworld games. Assemble your fleet and lead them to victory on the shifting sands of Kharak in this compelling strategy game for PC from Blackbird Interactive.
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Homeworld 3
Single-player alternative to Hardspace: Shipbreaker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
Tactical, beautiful, and wholly unique, the GOTY-winning sci-fi RTS returns with Homeworld 3. Assume control and battle through fleet combat in dazzling, fully 3D space while the award-winning story unfolds on a galactic scale.
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Minecraft Legends
Single-player alternative to Hardspace: Shipbreaker — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Discover the mysteries of Minecraft Legends, a new action strategy game. Explore a gentle land of rich resources and lush biomes on the brink of destruction. The ravaging piglins have arrived, and it’s up to you to inspire your allies and lead them in strategic battles to save the Overworld!
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Crossfire: Legion
Single-player alternative to Hardspace: Shipbreaker — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Crossfire: Legion is a real time strategy game featuring tactical action in furious battles across a shattered version of the near future. Raise and customize your army to engage in intense online combat and carve your own path as you rise through the ranks. It’s a new generation of warfare.
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Ambrosia Sky: Act One
Single-player alternative to Hardspace: Shipbreaker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
You left. Now they’re dead. Ambrosia Sky: Act One is an immersive sim about exploring an asteroid colony devastated by an unknown contamination. Survive and harvest strains of hostile alien fungi, explore treacherous environments, and find meaning and beauty in so much death—the first of two acts.
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Project Eagle: A 3D Interactive Mars Base
Single-player alternative to Hardspace: Shipbreaker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
An interactive art demo that showcases what a future base on Mars could look like. Project Eagle isn't a game - but an exploration of mankind's possible future.