Single-player games like Planet Nomads
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Planet Nomads, 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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Demonsions: Industry
Single-player alternative to Planet Nomads — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Planet Nomads.
Demonsions: Industry is an open world, procedurally generated block crafting/building game. Everything can be mined. Enjoy crafting, building, and fully automating your survival in this strange world.
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Outpost Engineer
Single-player alternative to Planet Nomads — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Planet Nomads.
Outpost engineer is a first person factory automation game set on a volcanic island. Build your base, dig into the terrain, use assembly lines to automate production. Explore, study and catalogue.
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Teardown
Single-player alternative to Planet Nomads — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Planet Nomads.
Prepare the perfect heist in a fully destructible, simulated voxel world. Tear down walls with vehicles or use explosives to create your own shortcuts. Shape the environment to your advantage in the most creative ways you can imagine. Play solo or with up to 12 players in multiplayer.
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Guns, Blocks, and Steel
Single-player alternative to Planet Nomads — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Planet Nomads.
A tactical multiplayer FPS created by a solo developer as a passion project. Featuring a fully destructible, block-based environment. Gather resources to produce weapons, ammo, and vehicles. Play multiplayer PVP/co-op or singleplayer with bots.
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FortressCraft Evolved!
Single-player alternative to Planet Nomads — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Planet Nomads.
FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.
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Empyrion - Galactic Survival
Single-player alternative to Planet Nomads — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Planet Nomads.
Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!
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Star Crafter
Single-player alternative to Planet Nomads — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Planet Nomads.
A space survival crafting mining base building and star system building game. Craft rockets to create planets and Dyson Rings, mine and craft advanced materials, terraform the terrain, manage electricity, farm food, and more as you watch the star system evolve into stunning, ever-changing views.
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Space Engineers
Single-player alternative to Planet Nomads — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Planet Nomads.
Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.
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Planet Explorers
Single-player alternative to Planet Nomads — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Planet Nomads.
Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.
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Subnautica
Single-player alternative to Planet Nomads — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Planet Nomads.
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
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The Long Dark
Single-player alternative to Planet Nomads — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Planet Nomads.
THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.
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Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
Single-player alternative to Planet Nomads — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Planet Nomads.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
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Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to Planet Nomads — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Planet Nomads.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
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Kerbal Space Program
Single-player alternative to Planet Nomads — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Planet Nomads.
In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
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The Planet Crafter
Single-player alternative to Planet Nomads — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Planet Nomads.
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
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The Forest
Single-player alternative to Planet Nomads — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Planet Nomads.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.