Single-player games like Prospector: The First Contract
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Prospector: The First Contract, 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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Tinkerlands: A Shipwrecked Adventure
Single-player alternative to Prospector: The First Contract — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Prospector: The First Contract.
A Shipwrecked Adventure is a free prologue immersing you into the vast world of Tinkerlands. Uncover the story of the first survivors on these mystical islands. Explore the breathtaking archipelago, craft essential tools, build your settlement, and strive to survive!
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Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission
Single-player alternative to Prospector: The First Contract — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Prospector: The First Contract.
Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission is a prologue chapter of the main game, Nova Lands. Learn your way around the planet you've landed on, build your base, and automate it with your helpful bots!
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Prospector
Single-player alternative to Prospector: The First Contract — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Prospector: The First Contract.
Land on a distant planet in this chill resource management game. Harvest alien resources, build and automate machinery, uncover secrets across the stars and strike shipping deals with distant colonies for exclusive rewards!
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ASTRONEER
Single-player alternative to Prospector: The First Contract — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Prospector: The First Contract.
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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Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to Prospector: The First Contract — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Prospector: The First Contract.
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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Core Keeper
Single-player alternative to Prospector: The First Contract — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Prospector: The First Contract.
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
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Forager
Single-player alternative to Prospector: The First Contract — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Prospector: The First Contract.
The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!
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Eden Crafters
Single-player alternative to Prospector: The First Contract — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Prospector: The First Contract.
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
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Stardew Valley
Single-player alternative to Prospector: The First Contract — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Prospector: The First Contract.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
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Mindustry
Single-player alternative to Prospector: The First Contract — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Prospector: The First Contract.
An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.
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Factorio
Single-player alternative to Prospector: The First Contract — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Prospector: The First Contract.
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.