Single-player games like Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation, 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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Astrox Imperium
Single-player alternative to Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation.
Astrox Imperium is a relaxing space game where you fly around a generated universe. Mining, Fighting, Building, Exploring, and Surviving. What makes this game unique? You have complete control of how it plays. A robust sandbox and lots of MOD tools. Make it your game, and play it your own way.
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Void Destroyer 2
Single-player alternative to Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation.
Start with nothing... End with everything! All you have is a basic ship, barely fit for combat, with it you'll start your journey and empire. A open world space sandbox, inspired by and expanding the classics.
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MORS
Single-player alternative to Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation.
Build an automated factory on a true-scale Mars streamed from real NASA terrain. Mine, smelt and belt resources, run trains between outposts, master chemistry, and grow from a lone lander into a planet-spanning industry while the real Martian weather does its worst.
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Starlathe
Single-player alternative to Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation.
Command your ship and fleet in a galaxy that truly lives: 150 sectors where six factions mine, haul, trade, build and wage war whether you're there or not. Trade it, rob it, defend it — or forge your own fleet and carve out your place in it.
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Asteroid Rodeo
Single-player alternative to Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation.
Asteroids are worth trillions. They're also spinning at 200 meters per second. You are a Wrangler—harpoon tumbling rocks, wrestle them to a dead stop with your custom-built ship, and mine them for credits. The pay is good. The survival rate is a conversation people avoid.
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Astario
Single-player alternative to Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation.
Astario is a universe in which you can build functional ships and orbital stations with automated factories. Collect materials, craft new blocks, and expand into the universe. Nothing is ever truly static, ships, stations, asteroids, planets, everything follows the laws of orbital motion.
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SpaceCraft
Single-player alternative to Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation.
The Universe is yours. SpaceCraft is an online space exploration and building game. Explore a vast galaxy of solar systems and planets, mine and craft resources, design and build ships, automate planetary bases and interplanetary logistics, trade and cooperate.
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Drifter
Single-player alternative to Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation.
Drifter is an open-world sandbox space trading game with a procedurally-generated galaxy 100,000 light years across made up of tens of thousands of star systems to explore and features an original soundtrack by composer Danny Baranowsky.