Single-player games like Starways: Heart of the Cosmos
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Starways: Heart of the Cosmos, 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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Sheep Counting
Single-player alternative to Starways: Heart of the Cosmos — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Starways: Heart of the Cosmos.
A recreational software for counting sheep, observing puzzles, and befriending an indoor air-conditioning unit.
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Rusts Of Corruption
Single-player alternative to Starways: Heart of the Cosmos — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Starways: Heart of the Cosmos.
You've mysteriously awoken on an isolated island on an unknown world. A corrupting force spreads through the island, leaving only a short amount of time to learn about the islands mysteries... Who will you meet? What will you learn? Are you ready to see the world die?
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Pelican Post
Single-player alternative to Starways: Heart of the Cosmos — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Starways: Heart of the Cosmos.
Pelican Post is a cozy narrative game about building community by delivering mail to a town of charming characters. As Port Pleasant's mailman, you'll get to know the townsfolk and make a difference in their lives.
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A Story About Forever: Transience
Single-player alternative to Starways: Heart of the Cosmos — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Starways: Heart of the Cosmos.
A Story About Forever is a space exploration action RPG game with heavy emphasis on story and character interaction, (inspired by Star Control II). Features Asteroids-style dogfights, an upgradable ship, a deep conversation system, and hundreds of characters with novels' worth of dialog to discover.
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Just in Crime
Single-player alternative to Starways: Heart of the Cosmos — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Starways: Heart of the Cosmos.
Just in Crime is a detective video game in which you play a detective dog and a wizard cat. With a twist; you are able to travel back in time and examine the crime scene a few seconds before it happened.
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Himig
Single-player alternative to Starways: Heart of the Cosmos — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Starways: Heart of the Cosmos.
Himig is a story of two kids enjoying their day-to-day lives in a peaceful town as they meet new friends, gain experiences to remember, and realize their own paths of life at the peak of youth.
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Mandated Fate
Single-player alternative to Starways: Heart of the Cosmos — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Starways: Heart of the Cosmos.
A dystopian future-noir social thriller. As an Imperial Inspector, navigate a towering technocratic empire where loyalty is survival. Investigate secrets, manipulate factions, and make brutal moral choices. In this alternate history, will you uphold the regime or subvert the truth?
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Remaining Grace
Single-player alternative to Starways: Heart of the Cosmos — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Starways: Heart of the Cosmos.
Grace Tao died 3 years ago. This is her quiet ghost story. Guide Grace's spirit across 3 time periods, slowly piecing together the constellation of relationships that defined her life — the people she loved, the unspoken moments in between, and the events that led to her death.
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Super Sketch Bob
Single-player alternative to Starways: Heart of the Cosmos — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Starways: Heart of the Cosmos.
A hand-drawn puzzle-platform adventure where you create ladders, bridges, and trampolines with a magic pencil. Explore five colorful worlds, unlock 70+ costumes, chase time-trial stars, and re-sketch the chaos threatening the world.