Single-player games like The Planet Crafter
Below are 19 single-player Steam games similar to The Planet Crafter, 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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Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to The Planet Crafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter.
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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No Man's Sky
Single-player alternative to The Planet Crafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
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Subnautica
Single-player alternative to The Planet Crafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter.
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
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ASTRONEER
Single-player alternative to The Planet Crafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter.
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.
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Raft
Single-player alternative to The Planet Crafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter.
Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!
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Core Keeper
Single-player alternative to The Planet Crafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter.
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
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Surviving Mars
Single-player alternative to The Planet Crafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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 The Planet Crafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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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Eden Crafters
Single-player alternative to The Planet Crafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter.
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
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Valheim
Single-player alternative to The Planet Crafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter.
A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
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Subnautica: Below Zero
Single-player alternative to The Planet Crafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter.
Dive into a freezing underwater adventure on an alien planet. Below Zero is set two years after the original Subnautica. Return to Planet 4546B to uncover the truth behind a deadly cover-up. Survive by building habitats, crafting tools, & diving deeper into the world of Subnautica.
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Grounded
Single-player alternative to The Planet Crafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter.
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
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StarRupture
Single-player alternative to The Planet Crafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter.
StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.
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shapez
Single-player alternative to The Planet Crafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
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Forever Skies
Single-player alternative to The Planet Crafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter.
A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.
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Aloft
Single-player alternative to The Planet Crafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter.
Soar the skies in Aloft, the co-op sandbox survival game set in a world of floating islands. Build any island into a skyship, your home in the clouds. Find lost knowledge, cure the fungal corruption, and brave the hurricane to restore the ecosystem.
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Abracadabrew
Single-player alternative to The Planet Crafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Abracadabrew is a memory-based 1-4 player local co-op game. Cooperate with friends while using your memory to brew as many potions as you can by dawn. Gather ingredients hidden around the room while communicating and staying focused to unlock new brain-racking potion combinations.
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Abracadabrew : Prologue
Single-player alternative to The Planet Crafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Abracadabrew : Prologue is a memory based 1-4 players local couch co-op game. Cooperate with your friends while using your memory skills to brew as many potions as you can before dawn. Gather ingredients hidden across the place, communicate and stay focused to unlock new brain-racking potions!
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The Planet Crafter: Prologue
Single-player alternative to The Planet Crafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter.
Experience the first stages of terraforming an entire planet in this space survival open world terraforming crafting game prologue. Explore, survive, collect, build your base then create oxygen, heat and pressure to make an hostile planet livable for humanity.