Single-player games like Surviving Mars: Pioneer
Below are 19 single-player Steam games similar to Surviving Mars: Pioneer, 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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Surviving Mars
Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars: Pioneer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
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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Blossom: The Seed of Life
Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars: Pioneer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
Terraform a dead planet back to life in this open world survival crafting game. Explore ruins, gather resources, print machines, drive modular vehicles, grow forests, biomes, and ecosystems. Create life and make it thrive with your own hands.
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Surviving Mars: Relaunched
Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars: Pioneer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
The award-winning sci-fi city builder is back - remastered, expanded and even more stunning. Colonize Mars and survive the process, from exploration and infrastructure to welcoming colonists and achieving long-term stability. Are you ready? Mars is waiting.
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Occupy Mars: The Game
Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars: Pioneer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.
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Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars: Pioneer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Casual with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
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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Star Shelter
Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars: Pioneer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
Star shelter is a space survival game built from the ground up for VR. You are stranded in space, you must climb around in Zero-G, explore, scavenge, craft, hack and fight to survive. You have to build, arm and upgrade your own space station in order to escape the cosmic graveyard.
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TerraTech Worlds
Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars: Pioneer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
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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Take On Mars
Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars: Pioneer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
Take On Mars places you right in the middle of mankind’s most exciting undertaking. Start out in the seat of a rover operator, finish as the first human to have ever set foot on the Red Planet.
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The Planet Crafter
Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars: Pioneer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
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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Subnautica
Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars: Pioneer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
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Green Hell
Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars: Pioneer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
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Genotype
Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars: Pioneer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
Your weapons are alive! Print creatures and use them as weapons and tools as you explore this Metroidvania FPS adventure. Morph yourself tiny, upgrade, and locate collectibles to advance to the next boss. Explore large non-linear maps and explore an environment woven together with a complex story.
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Mission: Mars
Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars: Pioneer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
Protect Mars from waves of enemies in "Mission: Mars." As Sergeant Eric, lead your team through 60 intense days of battle. Choose suits, upgrade weapons to ensure the survival of humanity's future on the Red Planet.
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Disney•Pixar WALL-E
Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars: Pioneer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
Based on the 2008 computer animated film from Pixar Animation Studios, the video game version of WALL-E involves playing as the lonely robot as he navigates a trash-tainted world and begins an unlikely trek across the cosmos.
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Kittypocalypse
Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars: Pioneer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Casual with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
Kittypocalypse is an in-depth, strategic tower defense game built exclusively for VR. Across a diverse range of environments, defeat the hordes of evil alien kitties and salvage what's left of your home planet
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Glyph☀️
Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars: Pioneer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
Glyph is a cute, physics-based adventure starring a mech-scarab and his trusted guide, Anobi, challenged with rebuilding an ancient civilization buried under the desert sand. Jump, double-jump, smash and glide through the air in this vertical platformer with amazing controls.
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Kittypocalypse - Ungoggled
Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars: Pioneer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Casual with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
Kittypocalypse is an in-depth, strategic tower defense game. Across a diverse range of environments, defeat the hordes of evil alien kitties and salvage what's left of your home planet.
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Dick Wilde
Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars: Pioneer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Casual with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
Those pesky swamp critters are at it again! Scarin’ off all the good folk who just want to go huntin’ and fishin’ on their lakes and lagoons! We’re talking piranhas, eels, ‘gators - you name it! There’s even been talk of a giant mutated Turtle on the loose!
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Dick Wilde 2
Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars: Pioneer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
A toxic outbreak has been unleashed, mutating the local wildlife! Pair up with your friends and take on the deadly ooze and its disgusting dwellers. Clear the swamplands with super-powered weapons - from physics-defying beam guns to homemade revolvers. Hold on tight, this ride’s about to get bumpy!