Single-player games like Kardaviik
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Kardaviik, 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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Main Sequence
Single-player alternative to Kardaviik — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kardaviik.
Main Sequence is a first-person space-sim factory builder where you design spaceships, build space stations, and automate everything. Start with a single ship and grow to become an interstellar industrial empire as you leave your mark on the galaxy.
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Space
Single-player alternative to Kardaviik — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Kardaviik.
Stranded on a hostile alien world, you must gather resources, craft tools, and automate production to survive. Build a base, fend off deadly wildlife, and uncover ancient secrets in this immersive sci-fi survival adventure. Will you conquer the planet or succumb to its perils?
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Moose Builders
Single-player alternative to Kardaviik — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Kardaviik.
Dig sand with a shovel and process into iron, silicon and more. Craft and merge better tools and machines to build solar panels to power them. Research new machines to automate everything in multi-story factories. Play alone or with friends to survive in the desert and turn it into a solar farm.
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SpaceCraft
Single-player alternative to Kardaviik — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Kardaviik.
The Universe is yours. SpaceCraft is an online space exploration and building game. Explore a vast galaxy of solar systems and planets, mine and craft resources, design and build ships, automate planetary bases and interplanetary logistics, trade and cooperate.
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Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to Kardaviik — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kardaviik.
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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Alchemy Factory
Single-player alternative to Kardaviik — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kardaviik.
Start small, team up with friends, and automate production with conveyor belts, pipes, and magical devices. Stock your shop with potions, jewelry, and relics, complete commissions, and build an alchemy empire! Alchemy Factory 1.0 is out now with the Wagon Logistics System and revamped shopkeeping.
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Factorio
Single-player alternative to Kardaviik — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kardaviik.
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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StarRupture
Single-player alternative to Kardaviik — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Kardaviik.
StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.