Single-player games like Star Trucker
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Star Trucker, 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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American Truck Simulator
Single-player alternative to Star Trucker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Star Trucker.
Experience legendary American trucks and deliver various cargoes across sunny California, sandy Nevada, and the Grand Canyon State of Arizona. American Truck Simulator takes you on a journey through the breathtaking landscapes and widely recognized landmarks around the States.
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Hardspace: Shipbreaker
Single-player alternative to Star Trucker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Star Trucker.
Equipped with cutting-edge salvaging tech, carve & slice spaceships to recover valuable materials. Upgrade your gear to take on more lucrative contracts and pay your billion credits debt to LYNX Corp!
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Expeditions: A MudRunner Game
Single-player alternative to Star Trucker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Star Trucker.
Embark on scientific expeditions with this new off-road adventure game. Lead research missions as you drive a variety of all-terrain vehicles, using high-tech tools and managing your camp and crew to ensure your success in the wild.
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Motor Town: Behind The Wheel
Single-player alternative to Star Trucker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Star Trucker.
Enjoy realistic driving in the open world. Relaxing cargo deliveries or driving buses and taxis will give you enough money to buy new cars and parts. You can test your driving skills at the race track. It's all about pure driving pleasure!
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No Man's Sky
Single-player alternative to Star Trucker — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
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Euro Truck Simulator 2
Single-player alternative to Star Trucker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Star Trucker.
Travel across Europe as king of the road, a trucker who delivers important cargo across impressive distances! With dozens of cities to explore, your endurance, skill and speed will all be pushed to their limits.
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TWA - First Haul
Single-player alternative to Star Trucker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Star Trucker.
Become a truckie in the heart of Australia! Brave the scorching desert, conquer a sandstorm and support the local industry by delivering vital cargo across the continent’s treacherous terrain.
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Astrometica
Single-player alternative to Star Trucker — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Astrometica is a space exploration and base-building survival game. After a catastrophic event, explore vast space, gather resources, build bases, and uncover cosmic mysteries. Use advanced technology, craft tools, and discover new blueprints to survive and thrive in the unknown.
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X4: Foundations
Single-player alternative to Star Trucker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Star Trucker.
Your journey to building a vast space empire begins behind the controls of a single ship. Explore, trade, fight, and build as you rise to command fleets, stations, and entire economies in a living, fully simulated universe that reacts to every decision.
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Starfield
Single-player alternative to Star Trucker — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Starfield is the first new universe in 25 years from Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout 4.
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SnowRunner
Single-player alternative to Star Trucker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Star Trucker.
Get ready for the next-generation off-road experience! Drive powerful vehicles and overcome extreme open environments to complete dozens of challenging missions solo or with up to 3 friends!
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Avorion
Single-player alternative to Star Trucker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Star Trucker.
A procedural co-op space sandbox where players can build their own space ships out of dynamically scalable blocks. Fight epic space battles, explore, mine, trade, wage wars and build your own empire to save your galaxy from being torn apart by an unknown enemy.
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ΔV: Rings of Saturn
Single-player alternative to Star Trucker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Star Trucker.
A physics-based mining sim, set in the thickest debris field in Sol. Every action has a reaction, lasers are invisible without a medium, and your thrust is a potent weapon. Find trade, adapt your equipment to your playstyle, hire a crew to help. Unravel the mysteries of the rings, or just get rich.
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Rebel Galaxy Outlaw
Single-player alternative to Star Trucker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Star Trucker.
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.
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EVERSPACE™ 2
Single-player alternative to Star Trucker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Star Trucker.
EVERSPACE 2 is a fast-paced single-player spaceship shooter with exploration in space and on planets, tons of loot, RPG elements, mining, and crafting. Experience an exciting sci-fi story set in a vivid, handcrafted open world full of secrets, puzzles, and perils.
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Rebel Galaxy
Single-player alternative to Star Trucker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Star Trucker.
Rebel Galaxy is a swashbuckling space adventure, with action-packed combat, exploration, discovery, trade, and “negotiation” with the outlandish denizens at the edge of the known universe.