Single-player games like Lightyear Frontier
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Lightyear Frontier, 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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Farm Together 2
Single-player alternative to Lightyear Frontier — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Grow your own farm all by yourself, or cooperate with your friends in the long awaited sequel to the cozy, relaxing farming experience!
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Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to Lightyear Frontier — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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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Industrial Petting
Single-player alternative to Lightyear Frontier — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Industrial Petting is a cozy factory game about building an adoption empire of adorable pets! Play with friends or solo. Build happy pet pipelines, explore and farm an alien island, and fulfill adoption contracts from across the galaxy!
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Survive on Raft
Single-player alternative to Lightyear Frontier — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Survive on Raft is a Survival Sandbox Simulator on the Raft in the middle of the ocean! Fight with shark, build base, craft, loot islands, farm and survive. Play solo or with friends.
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Garden Paws
Single-player alternative to Lightyear Frontier — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
You have inherited your grandparents farm as they set off to travel the world. Work with Frank at the local construction shop to finish off the final touches on your new home. Aid Frank and Mayor Wilson in building up the town so it may reach it's full potential.
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Stardew Valley
Single-player alternative to Lightyear Frontier — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
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Factorio
Single-player alternative to Lightyear Frontier — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
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Wildmender
Single-player alternative to Lightyear Frontier — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A desert gardening survival game. Start from a tiny spring and cultivate a blooming garden. Explore a vast world amid the sands and uncover its mysteries. Can you defend against the relentless forces of nature and mysterious wraith corruption, to bring life to a dying world?
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Subnautica
Single-player alternative to Lightyear Frontier — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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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Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
Single-player alternative to Lightyear Frontier — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
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Valheim
Single-player alternative to Lightyear Frontier — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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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VR Tractor Farming
Single-player alternative to Lightyear Frontier — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Immersive experience in "Farming Tractor" VR game that lets you tractor driving and farming activity in open world like growing crops, feeding animals, and watering plants, modern drone farming and drive through risky road. Day & night view experience the farming in darkness, rain and a full moon.