Single-player games like Sunshine Heavy Industries
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Sunshine Heavy Industries, 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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Hardspace: Shipbreaker
Single-player alternative to Sunshine Heavy Industries — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Sunshine Heavy Industries.
Equipped with cutting-edge salvaging tech, carve & slice spaceships to recover valuable materials. Upgrade your gear to take on more lucrative contracts and pay your billion credits debt to LYNX Corp!
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Cobalt Core
Single-player alternative to Sunshine Heavy Industries — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Sunshine Heavy Industries.
A sci-fi roguelike deckbuilder with a deep new single-axis spin on tactics games! Dodge missiles, line up your cannons, and blast 'em out of the sky... Then get to the bottom of these time loops, before it's too late!
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MakeRoom
Single-player alternative to Sunshine Heavy Industries — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sunshine Heavy Industries.
Build rooms, gardens, and camper vans with 1,100+ objects and the ability to make your own furniture from scratch. Learn with gentle design requests, then relax and create at your own pace.
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Before We Leave
Single-player alternative to Sunshine Heavy Industries — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sunshine Heavy Industries.
Before We Leave is a city building game set in a cozy corner of the universe. Nurture your Peeps and their surroundings while rebuilding and rediscovering civilisation. Settle new lands and planets while avoiding hungry Space Whales.
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Tinytopia
Single-player alternative to Sunshine Heavy Industries — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Casual with Sunshine Heavy Industries.
Construct charming toy towns and cities atop tiny terrain. Combine building blocks to create new megastructures. Test your skills in the physics-based Challenge stages or simply unwind and obliterate everything with an array of cute catastrophes!
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Imagine Earth
Single-player alternative to Sunshine Heavy Industries — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sunshine Heavy Industries.
Build your own global colonies on distant worlds. Manage energy and resource supplies and produce goods for space trade. Form economic and diplomatic alliances or take over competing corporations. Conduct research to protect your colonists from disasters and avoid a climate crisis.
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ISLANDERS: New Shores
Single-player alternative to Sunshine Heavy Industries — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sunshine Heavy Industries.
Welcome to ISLANDERS: New Shores. Build your island retreat in a calm, minimalist world with exciting new features that keep the classic charm while inspiring fresh creativity.
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House Flipper 2
Single-player alternative to Sunshine Heavy Industries — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sunshine Heavy Industries.
Clean your worries away with this relaxing renovation simulator! Buy, fix, sell, and become a local legend. Or grab your power tools and build anything from scratch! With the online 2-4 players co-op mode, you can play both in sandbox and story mode together.
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ZACH-LIKE
Single-player alternative to Sunshine Heavy Industries — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Sunshine Heavy Industries.
ZACH-LIKE is a book of behind-the-scenes design documents from Zachtronics. The digital version of ZACH-LIKE contains the full contents of the book, a bunch of terrible games that Zach made before SpaceChem, and some prototypes and early builds of Zachtronics games, both released and... not.