Single-player games like Space Engineers
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Space Engineers, 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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Space Engineers 2
Single-player alternative to Space Engineers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Engineers.
Space Engineers 2 is a sandbox about engineering and colonization where you build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible world. Begin the story of Miro and Ivan Sokol, expand humanity’s foothold in the Almagest system, and fight to survive.
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Kerbal Space Program
Single-player alternative to Space Engineers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Space Engineers.
In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
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Empyrion - Galactic Survival
Single-player alternative to Space Engineers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Engineers.
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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Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to Space Engineers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Engineers.
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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Factorio
Single-player alternative to Space Engineers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Engineers.
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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Stationeers
Single-player alternative to Space Engineers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Engineers.
Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!
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Stormworks: Build and Rescue
Single-player alternative to Space Engineers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Space Engineers.
Join a world where you design, create and pilot your own air sea rescue service. Release your inner hero as you battle fierce storms out at sea to rescue those in need.
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Subnautica
Single-player alternative to Space Engineers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Space Engineers.
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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Elite Dangerous
Single-player alternative to Space Engineers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Engineers.
Take control of your own starship and blaze your trail in an ever-changing galaxy. Master the arts of combat, mining and trade or venture out into the unknown across a 1:1 scale universe.
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Stellaris
Single-player alternative to Space Engineers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Space Engineers.
Explore a galaxy full of wonders in this sci-fi grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studios. Interact with diverse alien races, discover strange new worlds with unexpected events and expand the reach of your empire. Each new adventure holds almost limitless possibilities.
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No Man's Sky
Single-player alternative to Space Engineers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Space Engineers.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
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ASTRONEER
Single-player alternative to Space Engineers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Space Engineers.
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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Medieval Engineers
Single-player alternative to Space Engineers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Engineers.
Medieval Engineers is a sandbox game about engineering, construction and the maintenance of architectural works and mechanical equipment using medieval technology. Players build castles; construct mechanical devices and underground mining. There is an entire planet to explore!
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Starship EVO
Single-player alternative to Space Engineers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Engineers.
Mine and craft your way to orbit, build your own starship and explore a vast, dangerous galaxy alongside your crew. For players who love a meaningful survival progression, a unique and elegant building system, and epic space-opera scale.
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Miner Wars 2081
Single-player alternative to Space Engineers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Engineers.
Operate an advanced mining ship in a fully destructible and open-world environment!
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Miner Wars Arena
Single-player alternative to Space Engineers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Space Engineers.
Fast-paced arcade game inspired by the classic PC game, Tunneler, with state-of-the-art top-down view, 2.5D gameplay in a fully destructible environment. Enjoy unlimited gameplay variation by adjusting arena settings, such as terrain, map size, number of AI-controlled bots, technology level and many more.