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Single-player games like Space Trash Scavenger

Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Space Trash Scavenger, 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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    Eden Crafters — Steam game cover

    Eden Crafters

    Single-player alternative to Space Trash Scavenger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Space Trash Scavenger.

    Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!

    2024StrategyIndieAdventure19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Satisfactory — Steam game cover

    Satisfactory

    Single-player alternative to Space Trash Scavenger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Space Trash Scavenger.

    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!

    2024StrategyIndieAdventure39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    ASTRONEER — Steam game cover

    ASTRONEER

    Single-player alternative to Space Trash Scavenger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Space Trash Scavenger.

    Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.

    2019IndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Stationeers — Steam game cover

    Stationeers

    Single-player alternative to Space Trash Scavenger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Trash Scavenger.

    Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!

    2017ActionIndieSimulation34.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Voidtrain — Steam game cover

    Voidtrain

    Single-player alternative to Space Trash Scavenger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Trash Scavenger.

    Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Breathedge — Steam game cover

    Breathedge

    Single-player alternative to Space Trash Scavenger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Trash Scavenger.

    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.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    AutoForge — Steam game cover

    AutoForge

    Single-player alternative to Space Trash Scavenger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Simulation with Space Trash Scavenger.

    A 2D automation sandbox adventure. Build an automated factory with Mana-powered machines, progress through an expansive tech tree, explore a vast and wonderful world, upgrade yourself with ancient technologies, and defend it all from invasions.

    2024ActionSimulationEarly Access19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Nova Lands — Steam game cover

    Nova Lands

    Single-player alternative to Space Trash Scavenger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Space Trash Scavenger.

    Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!

    2023StrategyIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Raft — Steam game cover

    Raft

    Single-player alternative to Space Trash Scavenger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Space Trash Scavenger.

    Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!

    2022IndieAdventureSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series — Steam game cover

    Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series

    Single-player alternative to Space Trash Scavenger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Space Trash Scavenger.

    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.

    2015AdventureDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Minecraft Legends — Steam game cover

    Minecraft Legends

    Single-player alternative to Space Trash Scavenger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Space Trash Scavenger.

    Discover the mysteries of Minecraft Legends, a new action strategy game. Explore a gentle land of rich resources and lush biomes on the brink of destruction. The ravaging piglins have arrived, and it’s up to you to inspire your allies and lead them in strategic battles to save the Overworld!

    2023ActionStrategy39.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Overcrowd: A Commute 'Em Up — Steam game cover

    Overcrowd: A Commute 'Em Up

    Single-player alternative to Space Trash Scavenger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Space Trash Scavenger.

    Design and build the most efficient metro stations known to man! Excavate. Expand. Set staff priorities. And manage the commuter flow. Overcrowd is a 2.5D management/tycoon/simulator set below the bustling city of Lubdon Town.

    2020Simulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →