Single-player games like Stationeers
Below are 20 single-player Steam games similar to Stationeers, 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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CryoFall
Single-player alternative to Stationeers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Stationeers.
CryoFall is a sci-fi colony simulation survival game set on a forgotten planet in a distant future. Master technology, agriculture, trading, industry, cybernetics, exploration, and more!
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ASTRONEER
Single-player alternative to Stationeers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Stationeers.
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.
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Abiotic Factor
Single-player alternative to Stationeers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Simulation with Stationeers.
Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.
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Timberborn
Single-player alternative to Stationeers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stationeers.
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
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Farworld Pioneers
Single-player alternative to Stationeers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Stationeers.
Explore an open world, sci-fi sandbox – in PVP, PVE, and co-op. Build and manage colonies on alien planets, and recruit AI survivors with unique personalities and skills. Craft, build, mine, farm, or get your electric death rifle and say hello to your neighbors.
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Astro Colony
Single-player alternative to Stationeers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Stationeers.
Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.
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Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to Stationeers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stationeers.
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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FortressCraft Evolved!
Single-player alternative to Stationeers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stationeers.
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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Space Engineers
Single-player alternative to Stationeers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Stationeers.
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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Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
Single-player alternative to Stationeers — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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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Planetbase
Single-player alternative to Stationeers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stationeers.
Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.
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Oxygen Not Included
Single-player alternative to Stationeers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stationeers.
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
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Surviving Mars
Single-player alternative to Stationeers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Stationeers.
There will be challenges to overcome. Execute your strategy and improve your colony’s chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world. Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.
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Stormworks: Build and Rescue
Single-player alternative to Stationeers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Stationeers.
Join a world where you design, create and pilot your own air sea rescue service. Release your inner hero as you battle fierce storms out at sea to rescue those in need.
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Space Station 51
Single-player alternative to Stationeers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Stationeers.
You are a member of Space Station 51. When you wake up, you find that a zombie virus has broken out on the space station. You need to follow the command of the station master and take a series of actions.
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Minecraft Legends
Single-player alternative to Stationeers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Stationeers.
Discover the mysteries of Minecraft Legends, a new action strategy game. Explore a gentle land of rich resources and lush biomes on the brink of destruction. The ravaging piglins have arrived, and it’s up to you to inspire your allies and lead them in strategic battles to save the Overworld!
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ICARUS
Single-player alternative to Stationeers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Simulation with Stationeers.
ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.
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Out of Ammo
Single-player alternative to Stationeers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Stationeers.
Out of Ammo is an intense VR Tower Defense / FPS hybrid strategy game that will have you constructing defenses, calling in artillery, issuing orders, and taking direct control of your soldiers in order to survive a relentless enemy onslaught.
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Out of Ammo: Death Drive
Single-player alternative to Stationeers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Stationeers.
Death Drive is the apocalyptic sequel to Out of Ammo, a hybrid VR Tower Defense / FPS strategy game. Embark on a wild road trip developed exclusively for VR. Build defenses, scavenge scrap and and kill undead zombie hordes using an arsenal of firearms, melee weapons and mounted defenses.
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Art of the Rail
Single-player alternative to Stationeers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stationeers.
Spiritual remake of the classic transport tycoon games. Build a profitable transport network and grow your worlds economy, either on your own in singleplayer or in multiplayer whether cooperatively or competitively.