Single-player games like Astro Prospector
Below are 17 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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Wanderburg
Single-player alternative to Astro Prospector — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Astro Prospector.
Drive your Castle on Wheels into battle in this minimalist medieval roguelike of roaming fortresses! Devour entire villages, build your modular arsenal of siege machinery and break the game as you grow with every stronghold you crush.
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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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shatAAAAp!
Single-player alternative to Astro Prospector — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Astro Prospector.
Exponentially bigger waves of cute animals require increasingly absurd means of destruction. Shoot, burn, electrocute, explode... and make sure no one ever helps you.
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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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Space Mine Raider
Single-player alternative to Astro Prospector — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Astro Prospector.
Space Mine Raider is a mining and bullet hell incremental game with a focus on strong power progression and combat. Warp in, mine resources, fight enemies and bosses, and extract with your spoils to upgrade your ship.
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Porkanoid
Single-player alternative to Astro Prospector — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Astro Prospector.
An incremental, circular, pig-themed brick breaker mission: rescue your friend trapped across bizarre cosmic worlds by smashing rotating rings of bricks with your pig-headed ball. Keep moving to survive, unlock devastating power-ups, master innovative mechanics, and become stronger with every run.
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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.
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Hole Is Mine
Single-player alternative to Astro Prospector — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Astro Prospector.
Hole Is Mine is an incremental adventure about purifying a divine Hole. Dive inside and launch your Mini'Ohs to mine for you. Extract impurities, upgrade your power, and find hidden secrets to grow the Village, customizing your Mini'Ohs with incredible powers. The Hole has spoken!