Single-player games like Star Shelter
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Star Shelter, 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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Underlings
Single-player alternative to Star Shelter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Star Shelter.
Become one of the "evil" creatures and try to survive a world where everything wants you dead, gather resources, craft them into powerful items, build a base to protect yourself from everlasting raids or challenge your bosses to be more than an underling.
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No Man's Sky
Single-player alternative to Star Shelter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Star Shelter.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
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Crashlands
Single-player alternative to Star Shelter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Star Shelter.
Fight and tame alien beasts, craft resources into menacing weaponry, befriend the outlandish locals, and go toe-to-chin with a world-domineering maniac.
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cyubeVR
Single-player alternative to Star Shelter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Star Shelter.
Immerse yourself in a voxel game exclusively designed for VR. A beautiful infinite procedural world. Explore, gather resources, craft with your hands in 3D, and build anything you can imagine. Featuring great VR controls, near-infinite view distance, Steam Workshop mod support, and much more!
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Voidtrain
Single-player alternative to Star Shelter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Star Shelter.
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
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Space Trash Scavenger
Single-player alternative to Star Shelter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Star Shelter.
Grab your jetpack and explore procedural asteroid fields, derelict spaceships and abandoned outposts. Build and automate your Space Rig to process scavenged trash. Craft, trade and fight your way home in this interstellar, open-world survival sandbox.
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Smalland: Survive the Wilds
Single-player alternative to Star Shelter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Star Shelter.
Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.
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Undead Development
Single-player alternative to Star Shelter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Star Shelter.
How long would you survive in this unrealistic representation of the zombie apocalypse? Scavenge for supplies, find a base, and construct your defenses. Break down furniture and board up your home. Set bear traps, nail your axe to a gun, or find your own ways to fight off the undead. VR required.
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Subnautica
Single-player alternative to Star Shelter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Star Shelter.
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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Abode
Single-player alternative to Star Shelter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Star Shelter.
Abode is an escape room puzzle game. You will have to find, combine and utilize tools and furniture in the room to unveil all its secrets.
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Conductor
Single-player alternative to Star Shelter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Star Shelter.
Conductor is a action-adventure, puzzle game. Take control of a locomotive and clear anything that stands in your way. Solve puzzles by using tools and wit. Defend yourself from the forces of Overcorp.
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Madshot
Single-player alternative to Star Shelter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Star Shelter.
Madshot is a fast-paced, acrobatic, rogue-lite shooter. Survive the ever-changing road through Cthulhu and beyond. Equip endless upgrade combinations as you fight your way through horrific monsters and multi-phased boss battles.
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Abode 2
Single-player alternative to Star Shelter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Star Shelter.
Explore and investigate every corner and detail of this highly interactive apartment to unveil all its secrets and restore power to the city. An "escape the room" puzzle game.
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Cornerstone: The Song of Tyrim
Single-player alternative to Star Shelter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Star Shelter.
It's been weeks since anyone last saw the Viking men of the village of Borja, and young Tyrim is determined to set forth and find them. Wielding his crafting and combat skills, you’ll set sail on the Mad Goat across the seas to uncover the world of Nygard’s mysteries, collecting fabulous relics, uncovering forbidden secrets and magic,...
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Madshot: Road to Madness
Single-player alternative to Star Shelter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Star Shelter.
Slaughter endless abominations while moving stylishly through a lovecraftian nightmare. Combine a multitude of unlockable weapons, abilities and upgrades in order to survive as long as possible, and reach the top of the leaderboards.