Single-player games like Prospector
Below are 9 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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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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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.
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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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Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure
Single-player alternative to Prospector — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Prospector.
Oddsparks is a blend of automation and real-time strategy for both the die-hard fans of the automation genre and the automation-curious. Explore a strange fantasy world, uncover the mysteries of the past, automate your workshops, and go on adventures with your odd & adorable Sparks!
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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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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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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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AutoForge
Single-player alternative to Prospector — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Prospector.
A 2D automation sandbox adventure. Build an automated factory with Mana-powered machines, progress through an expansive tech tree, explore a vast and wonderful world, upgrade yourself with ancient technologies, and defend it all from invasions.
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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.