Single-player games like Drifter
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Drifter, 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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Asteroid Rodeo
Single-player alternative to Drifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Drifter.
Asteroids are worth trillions. They're also spinning at 200 meters per second. You are a Wrangler—harpoon tumbling rocks, wrestle them to a dead stop with your custom-built ship, and mine them for credits. The pay is good. The survival rate is a conversation people avoid.
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Interstellar Rift
Single-player alternative to Drifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Drifter.
Interstellar Rift is an open world starship simulator with an emphasis on ship construction and multi-player interaction. Survive in a hostile galaxy with your own custom designed and constructed starship. Invite other players to join your crew or fight them across the galaxy!
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Space Travellers
Single-player alternative to Drifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Drifter.
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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Void Destroyer 2
Single-player alternative to Drifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Drifter.
Start with nothing... End with everything! All you have is a basic ship, barely fit for combat, with it you'll start your journey and empire. A open world space sandbox, inspired by and expanding the classics.
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Rebel Galaxy
Single-player alternative to Drifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Drifter.
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.
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Endless Sky
Single-player alternative to Drifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Drifter.
Endless Sky is a 2D space trading and combat game inspired by the classic Escape Velocity series. Work your way up from a relatively wimpy shuttle, cargo ship, or fighter, to a highly upgraded and customized flagship or to a massive fleet of warships or freighters.
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Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation
Single-player alternative to Drifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Drifter.
Exiled to a deep space mining sector, you are left with a crappy ship, a laser, and a small mining beam. It is up to you to survive by working your way through the galaxy. Mine asteroids, refine and trade the ore, buy upgrades for your ship, hunt pirates... you get it.
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Evochron Mercenary
Single-player alternative to Drifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Drifter.
The life of an independent mercenary is rarely without excitement. Your spacecraft awaits and your adventure begins in the Sapphire star system.
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StarMade
Single-player alternative to Drifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Drifter.
The ultimate space sandbox. Participate in epic fleet battles, form alliances, strive to dominate entire galaxies and harness the universe’s resources for your industrious empire or the destruction of others. Customise your experience, the universe is yours!
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Space Engineers
Single-player alternative to Drifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Drifter.
Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.
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No Man's Sky
Single-player alternative to Drifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Drifter.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
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Elite Dangerous
Single-player alternative to Drifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Simulation with Drifter.
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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Avorion
Single-player alternative to Drifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Drifter.
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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Galaxy on Fire 2™ Full HD
Single-player alternative to Drifter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Drifter.
A hyperdrive malfunction sends Keith T. Maxwell tumbling through space and time to fight for his life against a mysterious alien armada that is wreaking havoc.