Single-player games like Astro Mining
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Astro Mining, 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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Destination Ares
Single-player alternative to Astro Mining — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Astro Mining.
You're the AI of a rickety colony ship, bound for the red planet. You have limited resources, a desperate crew, and an unknown fate awaiting you. Can you survive the journey across the Big Black?
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Dust Fleet
Single-player alternative to Astro Mining — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Astro Mining.
Assume command of a battle fleet and deploy immediately to the Dust Zone, commander. Our main food supply station has gone dark and the United Earth Nations (UEN) needs to know why in this 4X RTS space sim. Manage your ships, control space stations, and watch your back.
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Surviving Mars
Single-player alternative to Astro Mining — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Astro Mining.
There will be challenges to overcome. Execute your strategy and improve your colony’s chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world. Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.
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Industries of Titan
Single-player alternative to Astro Mining — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Astro Mining.
Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with other rival corporations on Titan for resources, territory, and power. Seek victory via technology, influence, warfare, or the wealth extracted from your citizens. Stake your claim to the Industries of Titan in this innovative sim/strategy game!
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Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
Single-player alternative to Astro Mining — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Astro Mining.
Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game. With unique vertical and horizontal base-building gameplay, settle on 10 hostile alien planets and build your own thriving colony. Get enough materials to build a physics-based Spaceship and try to escape from disasters.
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Space Haven
Single-player alternative to Astro Mining — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Astro Mining.
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
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The Last Starship
Single-player alternative to Astro Mining — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Astro Mining.
The Last Starship is a 2D space construction game where you design and upgrade your starship. Choose your path: pirate hunter, miner, engineer, spacebus driver, and more, whilst exploring vibrant star systems. Enjoy a growing sandbox world, with regular free updates. Your cosmic adventure awaits!
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Stardeus
Single-player alternative to Astro Mining — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Astro Mining.
Stardeus is a deep colony sim set on a broken starship manned by drones and hibernating human survivors. As the AI, have your drones repair your ship, save your crew and travel the stars in this beautiful simulation.
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Deal of the Dead Final Cut
Single-player alternative to Astro Mining — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Astro Mining.
Deal of the Dead: Final Cut is a Solitaire-style, survival horror, card game rendered in a unique, hand-drawn, art style. Fight your way through randomly shuffled decks of cards and escape from a zombie-infested city set in a post-apocalyptic world.
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Death by Deduction
Single-player alternative to Astro Mining — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Astro Mining.
Death by Deduction is a unique blend of logic puzzle and classic murder mystery set in an old English manor during the 1970s. Explore the manor, examine evidence, and question suspects to deduce who the murderer is in "Death by Deduction".
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The Night Museum
Single-player alternative to Astro Mining — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Astro Mining.
The Night Museum needs a night clerk. The job is simple: take the money, give the tickets, and keep the exhibits under control. Just follow the rules, and you’ll make it through the night... probably.