Single-player games like Star Crafter
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Star Crafter, 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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Outerverse
Single-player alternative to Star Crafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Star Crafter.
Build automated machines and weapons across the universe, beat massive bosses, experience cosmic events and explore unique landmarks in this quest driven automation crafting adventure game. Includes a manual scenario for crafting instead of machines for those not a fan of logic/automation!
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Chocolate Factory
Single-player alternative to Star Crafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Star Crafter.
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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Orebound
Single-player alternative to Star Crafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Star Crafter.
Orebound is a dwarven themed factory automation game. Play alone or with friends as you build, mine, craft and explore a voxel generated world! Build your fortress, expand your factory, fight off creatures who dwell beneath the mountains and embark on a journey of greatness.
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Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to Star Crafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Star Crafter.
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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Grand Emprise: Time Travel Survival
Single-player alternative to Star Crafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Star Crafter.
TIME TRAVEL through history to BECOME GOD 🚀 Ride dinosaurs, forge tools, sail dunes, build a colony, siege castles, automate and fly, mine underground, launch to the moon, build a dyson sphere! An insane, unforgettable and revolutionary survival crafting base building open world adventure.
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TerraTech Worlds
Single-player alternative to Star Crafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Star Crafter.
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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FortressCraft Evolved!
Single-player alternative to Star Crafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Star Crafter.
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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The Planet Crafter
Single-player alternative to Star Crafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Star Crafter.
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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No Man's Sky
Single-player alternative to Star Crafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Star Crafter.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
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Outer Wilds
Single-player alternative to Star Crafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Star Crafter.
Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.
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Factorio
Single-player alternative to Star Crafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Star Crafter.
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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Dyson Sphere Program
Single-player alternative to Star Crafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Star Crafter.
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
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Contrablade: Stadium Rush
Single-player alternative to Star Crafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Star Crafter.
Let it rip! Control your own Contrablade to knock out your opponent and reach the farthest to unlock new parts, abilities, and upgrades in this unique and addictive physics fighting action roguelite arcade game!
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Grand Emprise 2: Portals Apart
Single-player alternative to Star Crafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Star Crafter.
⛏️ Survival crafting adventure 💎 🌌 Through magical portals 🌀 👹 Into fantasy worlds 🏰 ⚡ Once-in-a-lifetime, high-paced, high-variety 💨 ⏳ The sequel to Grand Emprise: Time Travel 🕰️
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World Crafter TD
Single-player alternative to Star Crafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Star Crafter.
A highly addictive survival crafting tower defense game! Gather, craft, build turrets, shoot guns, and expand the land to defend against waves of enemies in World Crafter TD!
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World Crafter TD: Prologue
Single-player alternative to Star Crafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Star Crafter.
A highly addictive survival crafting tower defense game! Gather, craft, build turrets, shoot guns, and expand the land to defend against waves of enemies! The prologue for the full game, World Crafter TD!
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My Money Grows On Trees
Single-player alternative to Star Crafter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Star Crafter.
Click. Water. Grow. Harvest. Explore. Upgrade. Profit. An incremental-minimalist clicker farming game about growing your own farm full of money trees! 🌳 Ever wondered what it'd be like if money grew on trees? 💸Online co-op supported!