Single-player games like Empyrion - Galactic Survival
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Empyrion - Galactic Survival, 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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7 Days to Die
Single-player alternative to Empyrion - Galactic Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Empyrion - Galactic Survival.
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
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Space Engineers
Single-player alternative to Empyrion - Galactic Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Empyrion - Galactic Survival.
Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.
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Avorion
Single-player alternative to Empyrion - Galactic Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Empyrion - Galactic Survival.
A procedural co-op space sandbox where players can build their own space ships out of dynamically scalable blocks. Fight epic space battles, explore, mine, trade, wage wars and build your own empire to save your galaxy from being torn apart by an unknown enemy.
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No Man's Sky
Single-player alternative to Empyrion - Galactic Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Empyrion - Galactic Survival.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
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Starship EVO
Single-player alternative to Empyrion - Galactic Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Empyrion - Galactic Survival.
Mine and craft your way to orbit, build your own starship and explore a vast, dangerous galaxy alongside your crew. For players who love a meaningful survival progression, a unique and elegant building system, and epic space-opera scale.
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Osiris: New Dawn
Single-player alternative to Empyrion - Galactic Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Empyrion - Galactic Survival.
Osiris: New Dawn is an unforgiving near future space survival game with a cinematic feel and elements of horror. Play as a Mission Specialist in single or multiplayer to build your planetary base, pilotable vehicles, and controllable drones as you explore a dangerous solar system far from Earth.
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StarMade
Single-player alternative to Empyrion - Galactic Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Empyrion - Galactic Survival.
The ultimate space sandbox. Participate in epic fleet battles, form alliances, strive to dominate entire galaxies and harness the universe’s resources for your industrious empire or the destruction of others. Customise your experience, the universe is yours!
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Interstellar Rift
Single-player alternative to Empyrion - Galactic Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Empyrion - Galactic Survival.
Interstellar Rift is an open world starship simulator with an emphasis on ship construction and multi-player interaction. Survive in a hostile galaxy with your own custom designed and constructed starship. Invite other players to join your crew or fight them across the galaxy!
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Starfield
Single-player alternative to Empyrion - Galactic Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Starfield is the first new universe in 25 years from Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout 4.
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Smalland: Survive the Wilds
Single-player alternative to Empyrion - Galactic Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Empyrion - Galactic Survival.
Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.
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Grounded
Single-player alternative to Empyrion - Galactic Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Empyrion - Galactic Survival.
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
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Enshrouded
Single-player alternative to Empyrion - Galactic Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Empyrion - Galactic Survival.
You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.
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Terraria
Single-player alternative to Empyrion - Galactic Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Empyrion - Galactic Survival.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!