Single-player games like Outerverse
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Outerverse, 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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FortressCraft Evolved!
Single-player alternative to Outerverse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Outerverse.
FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.
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GeoDepths
Single-player alternative to Outerverse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Outerverse.
Pilot your drill deep below the surface of a remote planet, to mine ore to refine into resources, which will be used in drill upgrades and construction of your homebase. Upgrades will allow you to drill deeper to find more types of ores. Explore caves to uncover mysteries and secrets.
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Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to Outerverse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Outerverse.
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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TerraTech Worlds
Single-player alternative to Outerverse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Outerverse.
TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment
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Star Crafter
Single-player alternative to Outerverse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outerverse.
A space survival crafting mining base building and star system building game. Craft rockets to create planets and Dyson Rings, mine and craft advanced materials, terraform the terrain, manage electricity, farm food, and more as you watch the star system evolve into stunning, ever-changing views.
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Empyrion - Galactic Survival
Single-player alternative to Outerverse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Outerverse.
Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!
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Atrio: The Dark Wild
Single-player alternative to Outerverse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Outerverse.
Keep your disposable android-body alive by automating everything. Automate farming, foraging, crafting and capturing - and even assimilate creatures into your production lines during your impossible mission to relight the world.
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Hydroneer
Single-player alternative to Outerverse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Outerverse.
Hydroneer is a mining and base building sandbox. Dig for gold and other resources to turn a profit and enhance your mining operation. Build a base of operations, forge weapons, go fishing, and dig deep!
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Space Engineers
Single-player alternative to Outerverse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Outerverse.
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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Grand Emprise: Time Travel Survival
Single-player alternative to Outerverse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outerverse.
TIME TRAVEL through history to BECOME GOD 🚀 Ride dinosaurs, forge tools, sail dunes, build a colony, siege castles, automate and fly, mine underground, launch to the moon, build a dyson sphere! An insane, unforgettable and revolutionary survival crafting base building open world adventure.
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Chocolate Factory
Single-player alternative to Outerverse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outerverse.
Build your dream Chocolate Factory among candy cane forests and gumdrop hills to produce the tastiest sweets. A delicious first-person factory automation game with a little exploration and combat. Confectionary conveyor belt heaven awaits!
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Contrablade: Stadium Rush
Single-player alternative to Outerverse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Outerverse.
Let it rip! Control your own Contrablade to knock out your opponent and reach the farthest to unlock new parts, abilities, and upgrades in this unique and addictive physics fighting action roguelite arcade game!
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Grand Emprise 2: Portals Apart
Single-player alternative to Outerverse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outerverse.
⛏️ Survival crafting adventure 💎 🌌 Through magical portals 🌀 👹 Into fantasy worlds 🏰 ⚡ Once-in-a-lifetime, high-paced, high-variety 💨 ⏳ The sequel to Grand Emprise: Time Travel 🕰️
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World Crafter TD
Single-player alternative to Outerverse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Outerverse.
A highly addictive survival crafting tower defense game! Gather, craft, build turrets, shoot guns, and expand the land to defend against waves of enemies in World Crafter TD!
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World Crafter TD: Prologue
Single-player alternative to Outerverse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Outerverse.
A highly addictive survival crafting tower defense game! Gather, craft, build turrets, shoot guns, and expand the land to defend against waves of enemies! The prologue for the full game, World Crafter TD!
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My Money Grows On Trees
Single-player alternative to Outerverse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Outerverse.
Click. Water. Grow. Harvest. Explore. Upgrade. Profit. An incremental-minimalist clicker farming game about growing your own farm full of money trees! 🌳 Ever wondered what it'd be like if money grew on trees? 💸Online co-op supported!