Single-player games like Cratered
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Cratered, 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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Starship Fighters: Space Combat Simulator
Single-player alternative to Cratered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cratered.
Pilot your starship in Starship Fighters, a realistic space combat simulator. Engage in intense battles, explore vast galaxies, and unleash destruction with an arsenal of powerful weapons in a universe teeming with enemies!
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RoboSamurai
Single-player alternative to Cratered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cratered.
RoboSamurai is a 3rd-person fast-paced sword-fighting action/slasher game about Nix: a robot mechanic turned katana-wielding fighter. Set in a cyberpunk dystopian city filled with corruption and tyrannical corporations waiting for him to let his guard down.
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Stellaxy
Single-player alternative to Cratered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cratered.
Stellaxy is a space exploration immersive sim with alien cultures, boss battles, and massive Universes containing billions of planets to explore! Discover the mysteries of the Universes and find collectibles while completing quests.
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Observa
Single-player alternative to Cratered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cratered.
Alone on a floating island in deep space, you use your telescope to study the universe, capture what you find, and confront the growing sense that something out there is aware of you.
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Cradle-18
Single-player alternative to Cratered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cratered.
A sci-fi immersive sim with horror elements set on an abandoned orbital station. Manage life support systems, conserve resources, and survive in an atmosphere of mounting pressure where the environment is fully interactive.
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Space Travellers
Single-player alternative to Cratered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cratered.
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!
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Space Station Escape
Single-player alternative to Cratered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cratered.
Space Station Escape is a anomaly horror game.Players take on the role of an astronaut wanting to escape from a spaceship running out of oxygen.
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Rebel Galaxy Outlaw
Single-player alternative to Cratered — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cratered.
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.