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Single-player games like Moon Colony Crafter

Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Moon Colony Crafter, 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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    Lunar Impact — Steam game cover

    Lunar Impact

    Single-player alternative to Moon Colony Crafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Moon Colony Crafter.

    Go to the Moon to explore its harsh nature and mysterious anomalies. Build your own lunar base, craft equipment, extract valuable resources and make many discoveries. Overcome the challenges of extreme lunar conditions, an oxygen-free atmosphere and much more unknown...

    IndieAdventureSimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Empyrion - Galactic Survival — Steam game cover

    Empyrion - Galactic Survival

    Single-player alternative to Moon Colony Crafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Moon Colony Crafter.

    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!

    2020StrategyIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Forest — Steam game cover

    The Forest

    Single-player alternative to Moon Colony Crafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Moon Colony Crafter.

    As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Island Beekeeper — Steam game cover

    Island Beekeeper

    Single-player alternative to Moon Colony Crafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Moon Colony Crafter.

    Build your apiary on islands above the clouds, travel on your medocycle, crossbreed bees with unique traits and create a cozy home in the sky. Grow plants, explore islands and send healing honey down to Earth, where people still hope for your help.

    2026IndieAdventureSimulation11.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Whisper of the Swallows — Steam game cover

    Whisper of the Swallows

    Single-player alternative to Moon Colony Crafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Moon Colony Crafter.

    Brave a savage, unforgiving procedurally generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark will hunt you down. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to turn a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.

    2026ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Satisfactory — Steam game cover

    Satisfactory

    Single-player alternative to Moon Colony Crafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Moon Colony Crafter.

    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!

    2024StrategyIndieAdventure39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Space Engineers — Steam game cover

    Space Engineers

    Single-player alternative to Moon Colony Crafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Moon Colony Crafter.

    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.

    2019ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Don't Starve Together — Steam game cover

    Don't Starve Together

    Single-player alternative to Moon Colony Crafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Moon Colony Crafter.

    Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.

    2016ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →