Single-player games like Alien Farmer
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Alien Farmer, 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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Stellar Shipyard
Single-player alternative to Alien Farmer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alien Farmer.
Stellar Shipyard is a space colony sandbox where you design modular ships and stations, and automate resource production using drones and workers. Let the automated systems fly even the most improvised designs. Face rival factions and threats solo, or alongside friends as allies or rivals.
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Mithril
Single-player alternative to Alien Farmer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alien Farmer.
Explore and mine in procedural caves. Master using struts to delve deeper and support the ceiling before it falls . Build automation chains to process ores. Then manipulate lava and trigger Dormancy to crystallise new ones where it once flowed. Same world. New cave. New dangers. The world remembers.
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Build In Space
Single-player alternative to Alien Farmer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Alien Farmer.
Build In Space is a relaxing tycoon game where you can grow crops, build your base, and raise animals.
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Industronaut
Single-player alternative to Alien Farmer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alien Farmer.
A survival engineering game where you build life support habitats, mine resources, and automate production chains on a radiation heavy planet. No rescue. No support. Just engineering.
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Cosmic Ascent
Single-player alternative to Alien Farmer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Alien Farmer.
Build and expand an orbital station in this idle/incremental space colony sim. Manage crew, resources, refinery chains, research and ship expeditions as you progress from Earth orbit toward new planets.
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MORS
Single-player alternative to Alien Farmer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alien Farmer.
Build an automated factory on a true-scale Mars streamed from real NASA terrain. Mine, smelt and belt resources, run trains between outposts, master chemistry, and grow from a lone lander into a planet-spanning industry while the real Martian weather does its worst.
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Astra Industria
Single-player alternative to Alien Farmer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Alien Farmer.
Astra Industria is a sci-fi factory builder set on colossal player-constructed space megastructures with the addictive growth of incremental games. Extract resources, craft advanced components, and automate deep-space production through a vast tech tree.
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Skies of Aevium
Single-player alternative to Alien Farmer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alien Farmer.
A crafting automation game where you build the entire world from the ground up, while fighting the gods of Olympus, and becoming the strongest being in the universe!