Single-player games like Starsand
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Starsand, 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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Subnautica
Single-player alternative to Starsand — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Starsand.
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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Breathedge
Single-player alternative to Starsand — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Starsand.
Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.
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StarRupture
Single-player alternative to Starsand — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Starsand.
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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Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to Starsand — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Starsand.
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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Stranded: Alien Dawn
Single-player alternative to Starsand — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Starsand.
Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.
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ICARUS
Single-player alternative to Starsand — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Starsand.
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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Grounded
Single-player alternative to Starsand — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Starsand.
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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The Forest
Single-player alternative to Starsand — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Starsand.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
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Lost in the Ocean VR
Single-player alternative to Starsand — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Starsand.
Lost In The Ocean VR is one of the first survival game, developed specifically for Virtual Reality. Care about your primal needs, craft useful items, start a fire, survive…and build your way out!
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Slime Up
Single-player alternative to Starsand — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Starsand.
Slime Up is an infinite jumper where you jump around the city spraying mucus out of your nostrils and sliming people who get in your way. Rise to the top taking powerful powerups. Just be careful not to fall in the river of slime beneath you...