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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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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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.
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No Man's Sky
Single-player alternative to Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
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Interstellar Rift
Single-player alternative to Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation.
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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Star Shelter
Single-player alternative to Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation.
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.