Single-player games like Stationeers
Below are 15 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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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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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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Factorio
Single-player alternative to Stationeers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stationeers.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
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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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Occupy Mars: The Game
Single-player alternative to Stationeers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stationeers.
Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.
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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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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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Autonauts
Single-player alternative to Stationeers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stationeers.
In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.
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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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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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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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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.