Single-player games like Starbound
Below are 18 single-player Steam games similar to Starbound, 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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Terraria
Single-player alternative to Starbound — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starbound.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
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Subnautica
Single-player alternative to Starbound — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Starbound.
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 Starbound — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Starbound.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
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Core Keeper
Single-player alternative to Starbound — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starbound.
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
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Necesse
Single-player alternative to Starbound — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starbound.
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
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Don't Starve Together
Single-player alternative to Starbound — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starbound.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
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Stardew Valley
Single-player alternative to Starbound — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Starbound.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
- 8
Keplerth
Single-player alternative to Starbound — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Starbound.
Welcome to Keplerth! Try to survive on a hostile alien planet in this 2D sandbox RPG, where you can choose to live alone or fight side by side with your friends in the online multiplayer mode. Survive, build, farm, fight, and explore your way to victory in this open-world adventure!
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Valheim
Single-player alternative to Starbound — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starbound.
A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
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Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to Starbound — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Starbound.
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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RimWorld
Single-player alternative to Starbound — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Starbound.
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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Empyrion - Galactic Survival
Single-player alternative to Starbound — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Starbound.
Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!
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ASTRONEER
Single-player alternative to Starbound — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Starbound.
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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The Planet Crafter
Single-player alternative to Starbound — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Starbound.
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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Enshrouded
Single-player alternative to Starbound — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starbound.
Enshrouded is a solo and co-op survival action RPG where your freedom and creativity come first. Conquer the Shroud, a corrupting fog devouring the kingdom of Embervale: explore a handcrafted world full of secrets, forge your hero your way, and build anything, anywhere in a fully terraformable land.
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Noita
Single-player alternative to Starbound — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starbound.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
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Wargroove
Single-player alternative to Starbound — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Starbound.
Take to the battlefield with Wargroove, a strategy game for up to 4 players! Choose your Commander and wage turn-based war on battling factions. Design and share maps, cut-scenes and campaigns with easy-to-use editors and in-depth customization tools!
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Wargroove 2
Single-player alternative to Starbound — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Trouble stirs on the shores of Aurania. An ambitious new faction has unearthed forbidden relics capable of catastrophic consequences. But how far will they go to achieve glory? Take to the battlefield, sea, and sky with a cast of new Commanders, using your wits to wage turn-based war!