Single-player games like Astro Prospector
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Astro Prospector, 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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Screen Survivors
Single-player alternative to Astro Prospector — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Astro Prospector.
An idle survivor-like that sits in the corner of your screen.
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Snapshot Survivor
Single-player alternative to Astro Prospector — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Simulation with Astro Prospector.
Snapshot Survivor is an action-focused take on Snapshot, inspired by games like Vampire Survivors with an extra dose of naughty story telling. Roam around in an outskirt of Tokyo trying to survive taking upskirt pictures for profit to unlock new weapons and cutscenes!
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Irradiant Skies
Single-player alternative to Astro Prospector — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Astro Prospector.
Irradiant Skies is an arcade roguelite blending brick-breaking and bullet-parrying combat. Reflect enemy attacks, chain powerful upgrades, and master unique ships as you ascend through waves of enemies.
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Soul Reaper: Endless Harvest
Single-player alternative to Astro Prospector — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Astro Prospector.
Reap souls. Open the portal. Extract or risk it all. A skill-based bullet heaven where every battle is a short harvest. Souls reaped before the portal are safe, souls after are at risk. Spend them in a permanent skill tree, beat the level, push to the next.
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Black Plague
Single-player alternative to Astro Prospector — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Astro Prospector.
A fast roguelite survival chaos where you destroy endless plague hordes, stack insane upgrades, and break the rules of power.
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Compadrone: Land Wars
Single-player alternative to Astro Prospector — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Astro Prospector.
In this fast-paced roguelite arena shooter with tower-defense twists, control a drone capable of wielding multiple weapons and fight hordes of alien warbots. Collect resources and XP to unlock new weapons, towers, abilities, and drones.
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Hover Point
Single-player alternative to Astro Prospector — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Astro Prospector.
Hover Point is a physics-based rogue-lite bullet hell where movement is your weapon. Dodge chaotic swarms with auto-fire action, build your skill tree, and climb global leaderboards. Master the chaos solo or in co-op via mouse-only, keyboard-only, or controller-only playstyles.
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Mine or Burn
Single-player alternative to Astro Prospector — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Astro Prospector.
Mine asteroids, battle hostile miners, and grow a tiny mining rig into an industrial powerhouse in this bullet hell incremental roguelite. Unlock permanent upgrades and push your operation further with each new star system.
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Risk of Rain 2
Single-player alternative to Astro Prospector — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Astro Prospector.
Escape a chaotic alien planet by fighting through hordes of frenzied monsters – with your friends, or on your own. Combine loot in surprising ways and master each character until you become the havoc you feared upon your first crash landing.
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Nuclear Throne
Single-player alternative to Astro Prospector — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Astro Prospector.
Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?
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TowerFall Ascension
Single-player alternative to Astro Prospector — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Astro Prospector.
TowerFall Ascension is the definitive version of the hit archery combat game. Inspired by classics from the golden age of couch multiplayer, it's a 4-player local party game centering around hilarious, intense versus matches. The core mechanics are simple and accessible, but hard to master and combat is fierce.
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Slay the Spire
Single-player alternative to Astro Prospector — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Astro Prospector.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
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Touhou Mystia's Izakaya
Single-player alternative to Astro Prospector — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Astro Prospector.
A brand new pixel art restaurant simulator based on the Touhou Project! Play as Mystia, the owner of a small izakaya. Collect ingredients by day, cater to the customers by night, learn recipes from familiar characters, and become the best izakaya owner in all of Gensokyo!
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Vampire Survivors
Single-player alternative to Astro Prospector — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Astro Prospector.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
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The Binding of Isaac
Single-player alternative to Astro Prospector — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Astro Prospector.
Now 20% More Evil with the Free Halloween update!
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Nodebuster
Single-player alternative to Astro Prospector — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Astro Prospector.
Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.