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Single-player games like Astro Traveler

Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Astro Traveler, 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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    Celestial Routes — Steam game cover

    Celestial Routes

    Single-player alternative to Astro Traveler — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Astro Traveler.

    A third-person space survival game where seamless planet landings meet debt, fuel costs, fines, taxes, base ownership, and rebellion.

    ActionIndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Space Travellers — Steam game cover

    Space Travellers

    Single-player alternative to Astro Traveler — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Astro Traveler.

    Space Travellers is a unique open-world sandbox space simulator set in the year 2343. Travel the galaxy, trade, explore unexplored worlds, fight, build bases and factories, forge alliances and experience new adventures!

    ActionStrategyIndieSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Galactic Command Echo Squad SE — Steam game cover

    Galactic Command Echo Squad SE

    Single-player alternative to Astro Traveler — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Astro Traveler.

    Galactic Command Echo Squad SE is a high-end and very challenging space/planetary combat game. It offers a thrilling campaign, instant action combat sessions as well as a sandbox mode allowing you to explore the game's universe while battling hostile Insurgent forces among others.

    2014ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Starship EVO — Steam game cover

    Starship EVO

    Single-player alternative to Astro Traveler — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Astro Traveler.

    Mine and craft your way to orbit, build your own starship and explore a vast, dangerous galaxy alongside your crew. For players who love a meaningful survival progression, a unique and elegant building system, and epic space-opera scale.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Terminal Velocity™: Boosted Edition — Steam game cover

    Terminal Velocity™: Boosted Edition

    Single-player alternative to Astro Traveler — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Astro Traveler.

    In the far future, armadas from surrounding systems have suddenly waged war on Earth. You are a pilot from the Ares Squadron, flying the fastest, most dangerous crafts ever made. You're outgunned, outmanned, and strapped into a flying coffin.

    2023ActionAdventureSimulation11.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Elite Dangerous — Steam game cover

    Elite Dangerous

    Single-player alternative to Astro Traveler — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Astro Traveler.

    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.

    2015ActionStrategyAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Rebel Galaxy Outlaw — Steam game cover

    Rebel Galaxy Outlaw

    Single-player alternative to Astro Traveler — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Astro Traveler.

    Out of cash, out of luck, out on the fringe. Juno Markev has a killer to tail, a debt to pay, and more trouble headed her way. Rebel Galaxy Outlaw takes place in a greasy, blue-collar world of outlaws, truckers, cops and thieves.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure29.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Jitter — Steam game cover

    Jitter

    Single-player alternative to Astro Traveler — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Astro Traveler.

    A sci-fi exploration & survival game where you take on the role of a spaceship’s AI. Explore, fight, and survive across a mining colony in the Main Asteroid Belt. Rebuild your ship. Rescue your crew. Reveal the truth behind your mission.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →