Single-player games like The Planet Crafter: Prologue
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to The Planet Crafter: Prologue, 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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The Planet Crafter
Single-player alternative to The Planet Crafter: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter: Prologue.
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
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Sol One
Single-player alternative to The Planet Crafter: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter: Prologue.
A grounded open-world survival crafting game where you're stranded alone on Mars. Explore the red planet, extract resources, build a pressurized base, manage oxygen, power, and food, and construct the rocket that's your only way home.
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Occupy Mars: The Game
Single-player alternative to The Planet Crafter: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter: Prologue.
Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.
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Blossom: The Seed of Life
Single-player alternative to The Planet Crafter: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter: Prologue.
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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Kalit
Single-player alternative to The Planet Crafter: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter: Prologue.
A unique survival adventure, animated in a 1930s rubber hose style! Fight to survive: capture creatures, farm, mine, and craft everything you need: from gear and vehicles to your base. Explore strange lands and an underwater world of shipwrecks, dangers, and hidden wonders.
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AstroPlanet
Single-player alternative to The Planet Crafter: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter: Prologue.
AstroPlanet is a sandbox game where you find yourself in the role of an astronaut whose ship has crashed on a planet with an inhospitable atmosphere. Your task is not only to survive, but also to turn this world into a habitable place.
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Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to The Planet Crafter: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter: Prologue.
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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Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
Single-player alternative to The Planet Crafter: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter: Prologue.
Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
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Subnautica
Single-player alternative to The Planet Crafter: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter: Prologue.
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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No Man's Sky
Single-player alternative to The Planet Crafter: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Planet Crafter: Prologue.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
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Abracadabrew
Single-player alternative to The Planet Crafter: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Abracadabrew is a memory-based 1-4 player local co-op game. Cooperate with friends while using your memory to brew as many potions as you can by dawn. Gather ingredients hidden around the room while communicating and staying focused to unlock new brain-racking potion combinations.
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Abracadabrew : Prologue
Single-player alternative to The Planet Crafter: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Abracadabrew : Prologue is a memory based 1-4 players local couch co-op game. Cooperate with your friends while using your memory skills to brew as many potions as you can before dawn. Gather ingredients hidden across the place, communicate and stay focused to unlock new brain-racking potions!