Single-player games like The Planet Crafter
Below are 15 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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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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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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Palworld
Single-player alternative to The Planet Crafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter.
Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
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ICARUS
Single-player alternative to The Planet Crafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter.
ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.
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Occupy Mars: The Game
Single-player alternative to The Planet Crafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter.
Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.
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Voidtrain
Single-player alternative to The Planet Crafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter.
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
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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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Valheim
Single-player alternative to The Planet Crafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter.
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory 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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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.