Single-player games like Moonlight
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Moonlight, 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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No Man's Sky
Single-player alternative to Moonlight — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
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Dandelion Void
Single-player alternative to Moonlight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Moonlight.
Survive the jungle-choked halls of a derelict arkship adrift between the stars. Establish a refuge and forage resources from the skeletal remains of your ancestors. Explore solo or with your friends. Fashion what weapons you can, for the jungle is alive and hostile…
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Starbound
Single-player alternative to Moonlight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Moonlight.
You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...
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Osiris: New Dawn
Single-player alternative to Moonlight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Moonlight.
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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Breathedge
Single-player alternative to Moonlight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Moonlight.
Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.
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Among Trees
Single-player alternative to Moonlight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Moonlight.
Escape to an enchanting, living sandbox surrounded by wildlife and nature. Scavenge materials and craft tools to turn your small cabin into a warm, well-supplied home. Survive by fishing, cooking and growing your own food. Be careful though, the forest is as dangerous as it is wonderful.
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Occupy Mars: The Game
Single-player alternative to Moonlight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Moonlight.
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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ASTRONEER
Single-player alternative to Moonlight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Moonlight.
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.