Single-player games like Surviving Mars: Pioneer
Below are 21 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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Belt Colony
Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars: Pioneer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
The year is 2040. You, an ex-sergeant, have signed a contract with a large mining corporation in the Belt. Mine ore, build out your outpost, travel to nearby asteroids and collaborate with other belters.
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Outer Space Shack
Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars: Pioneer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
Build and manage space outposts on the Moon and Mars in this realistic simulation game. From the first step on the Moon to Mars colonization, launch rockets, take care of your astronauts and expand your base as you explore the cosmos. No grind, just pure management and exploration fun.
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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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ExoColony: Planet Survival
Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars: Pioneer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
Challenging space-colony sim. Guide generations of colonists, raise and educate them, manage resources, and ensure food supply. Maintain a breathable atmosphere, tackle pollution, and refine materials to build essential structures. Terraform planet and build ecosystem to make it your new home.
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Utopia Colony
Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars: Pioneer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
The year is 2033. You, an ex-Marine with little opportunities left, have signed up with Utopia Arura, a large mining corporation on Mars. They have sent you to a location they have proposed but you have chosen for mining. Everything else is up to you.
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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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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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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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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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DMD Mars Mission
Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars: Pioneer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
The Martian mining facility FK16 has been invaded by insects and mutated creatures and now the system reports that all human workers have been killed. It's up to you and your assistant Isabel to save the situation.
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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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Wall
Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars: Pioneer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
A short narrative adventure about friendship, loneliness, and staring at surfaces for meaning. Join your personal upright companion through an exploration into what it means to be Human, and what it means to be Wall.
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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered
Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars: Pioneer — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Explore Cyrodiil like never before with stunning new visuals and refined gameplay in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion™ Remastered.
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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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Oblivion
Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars: Pioneer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Surviving Mars: Pioneer.
Oblivion is a short, story-driven first-person horror game. Uncover the truth hidden within an abandoned school — but beware, some memories were never meant to return.
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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!