Single-player games like Prospector
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Prospector, 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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Nightwater
Single-player alternative to Prospector — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Prospector.
Forage, craft and automate to grow your factory, unlock new technologies and expand your island to discover new biomes. Progress through the ages from sticks and stones to the Bronze Age, the Industrial Era and into the future to uncover the secret of the Lighthouse and escape this reality.
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Blossom: The Seed of Life
Single-player alternative to Prospector — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Prospector.
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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Starvector
Single-player alternative to Prospector — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Prospector.
Eat a snack while you watch an entire planet burn in your image.
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Layer Land
Single-player alternative to Prospector — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Prospector.
Layerland is a sandbox survival game set in a world that mirrors Earth’s terrain. Travel through gates, capture monsters as pets, and team up to battle, gather, craft, and build.
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Autonomica
Single-player alternative to Prospector — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Prospector.
Autonomica is an open-world survival automation game driven by time travel. Explore a fractured island, build automated farms and machinery, and travel into the future to extract rare technology and resources. Work with surviving engineers to unravel temporal anomalies and capture dangerous Phantoms
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Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to Prospector — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Prospector.
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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Nova Lands
Single-player alternative to Prospector — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Prospector.
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!
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Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
Single-player alternative to Prospector — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Prospector.
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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ASTRONEER
Single-player alternative to Prospector — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Prospector.
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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Factorio
Single-player alternative to Prospector — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Prospector.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
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Forager
Single-player alternative to Prospector — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Prospector.
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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Prospector: The First Contract
Single-player alternative to Prospector — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Prospector.
As the Prospector in this Prologue chapter, you will be taking on your first contract. Explore new planets, gather resources, build your fully automated base, and ship materials to distant colonies.