Single-player games like Starground
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Starground, 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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Factorio
Single-player alternative to Starground — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Starground.
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.
- 2
Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to Starground — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Starground.
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!
- 3
Hammerting
Single-player alternative to Starground — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Starground.
Manage a Dwarven mining colony in the unexplored mountains of Mara. As conflict rages in the Overworld, you will need to craft, explore and fight as you provide the allies of your choice with the finest weapons and gear to assist them in the battle for glory.
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FOUNDRY
Single-player alternative to Starground — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Starground.
Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.
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Astro Colony
Single-player alternative to Starground — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Starground.
Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.
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Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure
Single-player alternative to Starground — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Starground.
Oddsparks is a blend of automation and real-time strategy for both the die-hard fans of the automation genre and the automation-curious. Explore a strange fantasy world, uncover the mysteries of the past, automate your workshops, and go on adventures with your odd & adorable Sparks!
- 7
The Riftbreaker
Single-player alternative to Starground — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Starground.
The Riftbreaker is a solo or Co-op base-building, survival game with Action-RPG elements for up to 4 players. Hack & slash countless hordes of enemies. Build up your base, craft powerful weapons and research new inventions to survive.
- 8
shapez
Single-player alternative to Starground — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Starground.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
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Terraria
Single-player alternative to Starground — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Starground.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
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Forager
Single-player alternative to Starground — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Starground.
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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Star Valor
Single-player alternative to Starground — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Starground.
Choose your own destiny as you explore an open-world procedurally generated galaxy where anything is possible. Become a miner, a trader, a bounty hunter, a pirate, or perhaps a jack of all trades. Start off small and build your way to the top but remember with every action, comes consequences.
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The Planet Crafter
Single-player alternative to Starground — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
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Nova Lands
Single-player alternative to Starground — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Starground.
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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Core Keeper
Single-player alternative to Starground — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Starground.
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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Pogo Rocket
Single-player alternative to Starground — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Starground.
Pogo sticks and Rockets, how could it go wrong? In this space-themed 2D platformer, you control an experimental rocket ship and must stop aliens from taking the Earth's resources. Play through a variety of levels with dangerous obstacles and save the world!
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Lured In
Single-player alternative to Starground — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Starground.
Run your own cozy aquarium! Travel to different places to catch all types of fish. Bring them back for idle profits, or sell them for instant cash. Unlock research for new upgrades, and ascend for powerful bonuses. Customize your character and tanks, and make your aquarium your own!