Single-player games like The Last Starship
Below are 18 single-player Steam games similar to The Last Starship, 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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Space Haven
Single-player alternative to The Last Starship — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Starship.
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
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ExoColony: Planet Survival
Single-player alternative to The Last Starship — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Starship.
Challenging space-colony sim. Guide generations of colonists, raise and educate them, manage resources, and ensure food supply. Maintain a breathable atmosphere, tackle pollution, and refine materials to build essential structures. Terraform planet and build ecosystem to make it your new home.
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Stardeus
Single-player alternative to The Last Starship — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Starship.
Stardeus is a deep colony sim set on a broken starship manned by drones and hibernating human survivors. As the AI, have your drones repair your ship, save your crew and travel the stars in this beautiful simulation.
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Surviving Mars
Single-player alternative to The Last Starship — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Last Starship.
There will be challenges to overcome. Execute your strategy and improve your colony’s chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world. Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.
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The Final Earth 2
Single-player alternative to The Last Starship — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Starship.
The Final Earth 2 is a vertical sci-fi city builder. Earth is unlivable, so you decide to create a space colony. Gather resources, then build and research your way to a better future! Grow your city from an exploration ship to a huge metropolis, full of advanced technology. What will you build?
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Prison Architect
Single-player alternative to The Last Starship — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Starship.
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
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The Crust
Single-player alternative to The Last Starship — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Last Starship.
Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.
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Space Architect
Single-player alternative to The Last Starship — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Starship.
Design your dream space station in Space Architect! Master the power of automation or 'hire' an army of crewmates to handle your ever-growing production. Mine asteroids, fabricate goods, and engage in interstellar trade to pay off the menacing Big Evil Corp. Will you thrive in the vastness of space?
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Star Valor
Single-player alternative to The Last Starship — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Last Starship.
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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Surviving Mars: Relaunched
Single-player alternative to The Last Starship — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Last Starship.
The award-winning sci-fi city builder is back - remastered, expanded and even more stunning. Colonize Mars and survive the process, from exploration and infrastructure to welcoming colonists and achieving long-term stability. Are you ready? Mars is waiting.
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RimWorld
Single-player alternative to The Last Starship — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Starship.
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
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Starcom: Unknown Space
Single-player alternative to The Last Starship — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Last Starship.
Starcom: Unknown Space is an action RPG of space exploration and adventure. Build your own starship while discovering an epic story in a universe of strange mysteries, alien factions and uncharted worlds.
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DEFCON
Single-player alternative to The Last Starship — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Starship.
Inspired by the 1983 cult classic film, Wargames, DEFCON superbly evokes the tension, paranoia and suspicion of the Cold War era, playing on the fascinating aspects of psychological gameplay that occur during strategic nuclear warfare.
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Scanner Sombre
Single-player alternative to The Last Starship — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Last Starship.
Scanner Sombre is a 3d horror cave exploration game where darkness is your greatest foe. Illuminate the unseen with your LIDAR scanner, revealing the eerie beauty and peril of the abyss. From the creators of Prison Architect, this immersive adventure uses light and shadow for a haunting experience.
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Uplink
Single-player alternative to The Last Starship — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Starship.
Uplink lets you play as a freelance hacker tackling risky contracts for corporations. Break into systems, steal data, sabotage rivals, and upgrade your gear. Support factions or go rogue in this immersive, strategy-driven hacking simulation game where your choices shape the outcome.
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Darwinia
Single-player alternative to The Last Starship — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Starship.
Darwinia blends real-time strategy, action, and puzzles with a unique gesture-based control system. Save the Darwinians, battle viruses, and restore order in a retro-inspired digital world. Winner of multiple prestigious awards, including the Seumas McNally Grand Prize at IGF 2006.
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Multiwinia
Single-player alternative to The Last Starship — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Last Starship.
Multiwinia is a fast-paced, retro-inspired RTS that blends arcade action with strategic depth. Command armies of Multiwinians in multiplayer battles across vibrant, nostalgic environments. With simple controls and dynamic gameplay, it offers endless fun and challenge for players of all skill levels.
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DEFCON VR
Single-player alternative to The Last Starship — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Starship.
DEFCON VR allows you to spectate DEFCON games in the comfort of your own virtual War Room. Join others and marvel at total global annihilation as nuclear missiles arc over the globe on their path to destruction. Watch Armageddon unfold as everybody dies….