Single-player games like Naev
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Naev, 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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Endless Sky
Single-player alternative to Naev — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Naev.
Endless Sky is a 2D space trading and combat game inspired by the classic Escape Velocity series. Work your way up from a relatively wimpy shuttle, cargo ship, or fighter, to a highly upgraded and customized flagship or to a massive fleet of warships or freighters.
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Unknown Horizons
Single-player alternative to Naev — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Naev.
Unknown Horizons is a retro styled top-down space exploration adventure where you will meet new alien races, learn their secrets and build their trust to get their help to find a way home.
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Stardust Origins
Single-player alternative to Naev — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Naev.
You are a pilot, seeking revenge on your deceitful father who threw you into unknown space. Can you find your way back and get revenge? Experience a mix of 2D topdown space adventure and explore planets to discover quests, negotiate trades, mine, hunt and survive in an expanding universe.
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Gaia Beyond
Single-player alternative to Naev — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Naev.
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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PULSAR: Lost Colony
Single-player alternative to Naev — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Naev.
The co-op open-world space sim where everyone has a role! Pilot the ship. Reroute power. Launch nukes. Explore alien planets. Research new talents. Work together to find the Lost Colony! ...or just deliver some biscuits
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Rebel Galaxy
Single-player alternative to Naev — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Naev.
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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Ostranauts
Single-player alternative to Naev — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Naev.
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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Starpoint Gemini 2
Single-player alternative to Naev — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Simulation with Naev.
Captain your own space ship and roam the galaxy in 3D in this tactical space simulator with tons of RPG depth ! Space has never looked so inviting - but images can betray...It has been two years since the end of the second Gemini war, the situation in the wartorn system is further from resolution than ever.
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Siren's Call: Escape Velocity
Single-player alternative to Naev — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Naev.
The definitive edition of the fan-favorite visual novel is here! A surreal, coming-of-age tale set in early 2010s Central Florida, Siren's Call is the small town you swore you'd always leave. Something inside you knows this is your last chance. Will you reach escape velocity?