Single-player games like Prospector: The First Contract
Below are 14 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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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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TerraTech Worlds
Single-player alternative to Prospector: The First Contract — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Prospector: The First Contract.
TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment
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Nova Lands
Single-player alternative to Prospector: The First Contract — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Prospector: The First Contract.
Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!
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Chocolate Factory
Single-player alternative to Prospector: The First Contract — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Prospector: The First Contract.
Build your dream Chocolate Factory among candy cane forests and gumdrop hills to produce the tastiest sweets. A delicious first-person factory automation game with a little exploration and combat. Confectionary conveyor belt heaven awaits!
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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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FortressCraft Evolved!
Single-player alternative to Prospector: The First Contract — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Prospector: The First Contract.
FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.
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Dragon Forge
Single-player alternative to Prospector: The First Contract — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Prospector: The First Contract.
Become a powerful dragon & automate massive factories! Dragon Forge is an incremental base building adventure game. Uncurse & explore a huge fantasy world full of quests. Gather resources & craft upgrades to become unstoppable! Discover over 100 fables of ancient wisdom at the Dragon Forge.
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AutoForge
Single-player alternative to Prospector: The First Contract — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Simulation with Prospector: The First Contract.
A 2D automation sandbox adventure. Build an automated factory with Mana-powered machines, progress through an expansive tech tree, explore a vast and wonderful world, upgrade yourself with ancient technologies, and defend it all from invasions.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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!