Single-player games like Starcom: Nexus
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Starcom: Nexus, 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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Starcom: Unknown Space
Single-player alternative to Starcom: Nexus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starcom: Nexus.
Starcom: Unknown Space is an action RPG of space exploration and adventure. Build your own starship while discovering an epic story in a universe of strange mysteries, alien factions and uncharted worlds.
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Transcendence
Single-player alternative to Starcom: Nexus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starcom: Nexus.
Explore the farthest reaches of Human Space in this open-world space adventure. Compelled to journey to the Galactic Core by a mysterious hyperintelligence, you must fight your way through dozens of star systems teeming with clashing empires, expansionist AIs, and fearsome xenophobes.
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Landinar: Into the Void
Single-player alternative to Starcom: Nexus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starcom: Nexus.
Landinar: Into the Void is a top-down space-adventure-RPG. You are recruited as a rookie bounty hunter in the oppressive Landinar Empire. On your journey through the quadrant you will meet diverse characters, build your own spaceship and choose your battles.
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Void Destroyer 2
Single-player alternative to Starcom: Nexus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starcom: Nexus.
Start with nothing... End with everything! All you have is a basic ship, barely fit for combat, with it you'll start your journey and empire. A open world space sandbox, inspired by and expanding the classics.
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Rebel Galaxy
Single-player alternative to Starcom: Nexus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starcom: Nexus.
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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EVERSPACE™ 2
Single-player alternative to Starcom: Nexus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Starcom: Nexus.
EVERSPACE 2 is a fast-paced single-player spaceship shooter with exploration in space and on planets, tons of loot, RPG elements, mining, and crafting. Experience an exciting sci-fi story set in a vivid, handcrafted open world full of secrets, puzzles, and perils.
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No Man's Sky
Single-player alternative to Starcom: Nexus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Starcom: Nexus.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
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Gaia Beyond
Single-player alternative to Starcom: Nexus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Starcom: Nexus.
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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Mass Effect (2007)
Single-player alternative to Starcom: Nexus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Starcom: Nexus.
As Commander Shepard, you lead an elite squad on a heroic, action-packed adventure throughout the galaxy.