Single-player games like Starscrip
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Starscrip, 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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Rebel Galaxy
Single-player alternative to Starscrip — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Starscrip.
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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Star Corsairs: Fractured Frontier
Single-player alternative to Starscrip — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Simulation with Starscrip.
Trade, fight and explore. Build a fleet, level your captain and dive through wormholes for rare loot — a single-player 2D space RPG of free corsairs.
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X3: Terran Conflict
Single-player alternative to Starscrip — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Simulation with Starscrip.
It is the year 2938. The long wished-for encounter of the X Universe and the Earth holds both joy and sorrow for the people. Despite flourishing trade, the clash of the diverse races, cultures and life forms creates new tensions, mistrust and open conflict that need to be overcome!
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X: Beyond the Frontier
Single-player alternative to Starscrip — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Starscrip.
The Human Race had advanced to the point where we could travel among the stars, we developed giant automated machines to help us colonise other worlds, but there was a fault in their programming and they turned and attacked. Forcing us to lay a trap to protect Earth and exiling the Human race to stay on Earth once again.
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Evochron Mercenary
Single-player alternative to Starscrip — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Simulation with Starscrip.
The life of an independent mercenary is rarely without excitement. Your spacecraft awaits and your adventure begins in the Sapphire star system.
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Ostranauts
Single-player alternative to Starscrip — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and RPG with Starscrip.
Navigate your scrappy ship through the boneyard in search of valuable parts in abandoned vessels. Use salvage to upgrade your ship, or sell it for cash to pay down your mounting debt, or restock fuel, air, or food. Fly and role-play aboard your dream spaceship in this hardcore noir space-sim.
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Gaia Beyond
Single-player alternative to Starscrip — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Starscrip.
Gaia Beyond is a handcrafted 2D Action-RPG, an exploration mix built around the core features fighting, mining and trading. Your decisions are footprints within a vast non-linear solar system. Forge alliances among numerous factions and develop relations with hundreds of NPCs.
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Elite Dangerous
Single-player alternative to Starscrip — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Starscrip.
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.