Single-player games like Space Trash Scavenger
Below are 11 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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Astro Colony
Single-player alternative to Space Trash Scavenger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Trash Scavenger.
Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.
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Astrometica
Single-player alternative to Space Trash Scavenger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Space Trash Scavenger.
Astrometica is a space exploration and base-building survival game. After a catastrophic event, explore vast space, gather resources, build bases, and uncover cosmic mysteries. Use advanced technology, craft tools, and discover new blueprints to survive and thrive in the unknown.
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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.
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Forager
Single-player alternative to Space Trash Scavenger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Trash Scavenger.
The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!
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Remains
Single-player alternative to Space Trash Scavenger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Trash Scavenger.
Remains - survival in outer space orbiting the planet. Explore the area. Find a way to restore oxygen. Create tools for your needs. Beware of the dangers of outer space. Build your shelter in orbit and try not to die!
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BLASTRONAUT
Single-player alternative to Space Trash Scavenger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Trash Scavenger.
BLASTRONAUT is a mining game in a procedural alien world. Explore, extract and profit.
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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!
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Blossom: The Seed of Life
Single-player alternative to Space Trash Scavenger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Space Trash Scavenger.
Terraform a dead planet back to life in this open world survival crafting game. Explore ruins, gather resources, print machines, drive modular vehicles, grow forests, biomes, and ecosystems. Create life and make it thrive with your own hands.
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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!
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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.
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Monk Took Book
Single-player alternative to Space Trash Scavenger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Space Trash Scavenger.
A game about organizing, stacking and remembering where you put hundreds of books in a cozy-creepy medieval library. Play solo or with up to three fellow monks.