Single-player games like Starcom: Unknown Space
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Starcom: Unknown Space, 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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Starcom: Nexus
Single-player alternative to Starcom: Unknown Space — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starcom: Unknown Space.
Suddenly thrown into an unknown galaxy, you must explore, fight or befriend aliens and transform your ship from a small survey vessel into a powerful battlecruiser to unravel the mystery of the forces that brought you here and find your way home.
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The Last Starship
Single-player alternative to Starcom: Unknown Space — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Starcom: Unknown Space.
The Last Starship is a 2D space construction game where you design and upgrade your starship. Choose your path: pirate hunter, miner, engineer, spacebus driver, and more, whilst exploring vibrant star systems. Enjoy a growing sandbox world, with regular free updates. Your cosmic adventure awaits!
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Star Vortex
Single-player alternative to Starcom: Unknown Space — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starcom: Unknown Space.
Star Vortex is a fast paced Action-RPG inspired by classics of the genre. Design your ship, fight your way through hostile alien sectors, upgrade as you salvage rare weapons and experiment with different builds until nothing can stand against you.
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EVERSPACE™ 2
Single-player alternative to Starcom: Unknown Space — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Starcom: Unknown Space.
EVERSPACE 2 is a fast-paced single-player spaceship shooter with exploration in space and on planets, tons of loot, RPG elements, mining, and crafting. Experience an exciting sci-fi story set in a vivid, handcrafted open world full of secrets, puzzles, and perils.
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Rebel Galaxy
Single-player alternative to Starcom: Unknown Space — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starcom: Unknown Space.
Rebel Galaxy is a swashbuckling space adventure, with action-packed combat, exploration, discovery, trade, and “negotiation” with the outlandish denizens at the edge of the known universe.
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Elite Dangerous
Single-player alternative to Starcom: Unknown Space — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Starcom: Unknown Space.
Take control of your own starship and blaze your trail in an ever-changing galaxy. Master the arts of combat, mining and trade or venture out into the unknown across a 1:1 scale universe.
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Galactic Mining Corp
Single-player alternative to Starcom: Unknown Space — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starcom: Unknown Space.
Galactic Mining Corp is a unique rogue-lite, action game with crafting and base building mechanics. Head into uncharted space and discover a universe of locations to exploit for riches! Use your profits to expand your HQ, hire a crazy work force, obtain new drill components and upgrade everything.
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Star Valor
Single-player alternative to Starcom: Unknown Space — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starcom: Unknown Space.
Choose your own destiny as you explore an open-world procedurally generated galaxy where anything is possible. Become a miner, a trader, a bounty hunter, a pirate, or perhaps a jack of all trades. Start off small and build your way to the top but remember with every action, comes consequences.
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Star Control III
Single-player alternative to Starcom: Unknown Space — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starcom: Unknown Space.
The universe is on the brink of destruction. It’s up to you to embark on an epic adventure of strategy and diplomacy to save thousands of worlds from total annihilation. But no pressure, right?
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Star Control I and II
Single-player alternative to Starcom: Unknown Space — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starcom: Unknown Space.
Explore a vast universe with pulse-pounding action, side-splitting humor, and hair-raising plot twists in these 2 classic space adventure games.
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Sid Meier's Pirates!
Single-player alternative to Starcom: Unknown Space — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Starcom: Unknown Space.
Sail the Caribbean, marauding all on the high seas or ally your ship and crew as a privateer in search of riches - the life you choose is up to you. Face dogged enemies, raid unsuspecting villages, woo fair maidens, avoid capture or dig for buried treasure. Discover what it takes to become one of the most famous pirates in history!
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Mass Effect (2007)
Single-player alternative to Starcom: Unknown Space — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Starcom: Unknown Space.
As Commander Shepard, you lead an elite squad on a heroic, action-packed adventure throughout the galaxy.
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MADNESS: Project Nexus
Single-player alternative to Starcom: Unknown Space — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starcom: Unknown Space.
MADNESS: Project Nexus is a third-person Run n' Gun / Beat'Em Up filled with arcade-style action and button-mashing brutality. Gun your way through droves of bad guys in the Story Campaign, or build your perfect killing machine in the neverending onslaught of Arena Mode.
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Solar Wind
Single-player alternative to Starcom: Unknown Space — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starcom: Unknown Space.
Blast your way through a galaxy of planets in this fast paced, side scrolling shoot 'em up. Fight in deep space, fly through asteroid belts, and battle across moons as you take on the alien menace.
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VOYAGER
Single-player alternative to Starcom: Unknown Space — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Starcom: Unknown Space.
Come with us now on a journey through music and space... To the world of VOYAGER ◯∘ A minimalist, relaxing & atmospheric experience to chill out to for a while…
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Reassembly
Single-player alternative to Starcom: Unknown Space — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starcom: Unknown Space.
A spaceship building and universe-exploration game. Collect resources, expand and grow your fleet, and conquer your personal galaxy. Stellar ambience by Peaks.