Single-player games like Star Explorers
Below are 20 single-player Steam games similar to Star Explorers, 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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Approaching Infinity
Single-player alternative to Star Explorers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Star Explorers.
Approaching Infinity is a turn-based space RPG in the spirit of the sci-fi classics, with endless progression and exploration. Fight tactical battles or use diplomacy. Seek powerful artifacts. Quest, mine, trade, and craft. Level up forever or attempt 10 victories in hardcore or adventure mode.
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Space Travellers
Single-player alternative to Star Explorers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Star Explorers.
Space Travellers is a unique open-world sandbox space simulator set in the year 2343. Travel the galaxy, trade, explore unexplored worlds, fight, build bases and factories, forge alliances and experience new adventures!
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Elite Dangerous
Single-player alternative to Star Explorers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Star Explorers.
Take control of your own starship and blaze your trail in an ever-changing galaxy. Master the arts of combat, mining and trade or venture out into the unknown across a 1:1 scale universe.
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3030 Deathwar Redux - A Space Odyssey
Single-player alternative to Star Explorers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Star Explorers.
3030 Deathwar is a unique mix of Adventure and Space Sim. Explore star systems, mine and hunt pirates in top-down mode. Leave your ship and switch into classic Adventuring mode, where you explore derelicts, talk to shady characters or head over to the space bar for a drink.
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No Man's Sky
Single-player alternative to Star Explorers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Star Explorers.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
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Rebel Galaxy
Single-player alternative to Star Explorers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Star Explorers.
Rebel Galaxy is a swashbuckling space adventure, with action-packed combat, exploration, discovery, trade, and “negotiation” with the outlandish denizens at the edge of the known universe.
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SpaceCraft
Single-player alternative to Star Explorers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Star Explorers.
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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Rebel Galaxy Outlaw
Single-player alternative to Star Explorers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Star Explorers.
Out of cash, out of luck, out on the fringe. Juno Markev has a killer to tail, a debt to pay, and more trouble headed her way. Rebel Galaxy Outlaw takes place in a greasy, blue-collar world of outlaws, truckers, cops and thieves.
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Rodina
Single-player alternative to Star Explorers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Star Explorers.
A single-developer passion project. A seamless full scale solar system. Thrilling action. Be part of an incredible journey as a Universe is built from the ground up!
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Starfield
Single-player alternative to Star Explorers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Star Explorers.
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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Dwarf Fortress
Single-player alternative to Star Explorers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Star Explorers.
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
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Star Control III
Single-player alternative to Star Explorers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Star Explorers.
The universe is on the brink of destruction. It’s up to you to embark on an epic adventure of strategy and diplomacy to save thousands of worlds from total annihilation. But no pressure, right?
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Star Control I and II
Single-player alternative to Star Explorers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Star Explorers.
Explore a vast universe with pulse-pounding action, side-splitting humor, and hair-raising plot twists in these 2 classic space adventure games.
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X4: Foundations
Single-player alternative to Star Explorers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Simulation with Star Explorers.
Your journey to building a vast space empire begins behind the controls of a single ship. Explore, trade, fight, and build as you rise to command fleets, stations, and entire economies in a living, fully simulated universe that reacts to every decision.
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Islands of the Caliph
Single-player alternative to Star Explorers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Star Explorers.
Islands of the Caliph is an old-school inspired action RPG based on Middle Eastern folklore and Islamic spiritual tradition. A KEYBOARD ONLY 1980s style Dungeon Crawler with an open world.
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Cyclopean: The Great Abyss
Single-player alternative to Star Explorers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Star Explorers.
Cyclopean: The Great Abyss is a small scale, mechanics driven CRPG/Roguelike in a retro, monochromatic style, that takes place in the underworld of H.P. Lovecraft's Dreamlands.
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Anomalies
Single-player alternative to Star Explorers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Star Explorers.
Are you looking for something completely different? An oddity? An enigma? Or perhaps .. an Anomaly? Anomalies may be a game, then again it may not. One user described it as "A million musical leeches, waiting to suck the serotonin from my brain." And that's just the beginning...
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Rocket Blasters
Single-player alternative to Star Explorers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Star Explorers.
Rocket Blasters is a fast paced, action packed shoot-em-up set during the invasion of the Dread Pizza Armada. Its hand-drawn art gives it a unique style. Blowing stuff up has never been so fun!
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Paradox Vector
Single-player alternative to Star Explorers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Star Explorers.
Explore impossible mazes while battling the Ancient Ones and their bio-mechanical servitors in this retro first-person, Lovecraft inspired shooter. Paradox Vector's graphics are inspired by the old-school vector graphics games of the early 1980's.
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Aberration Analyst
Single-player alternative to Star Explorers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Star Explorers.
Work strange hours ... analyze incomplete and unreliable information ... save the world from monsters, and shut down their means of access in this experimental, point-and-click supernatural strategy simulator.