Single-player games like Autonauts
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Autonauts, 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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Autonauts vs Piratebots
Single-player alternative to Autonauts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Autonauts.
Create, automate and defend an impenetrable base. Assemble and command a Bot army to combat an entire Piratebot invasion. Build, program and battle your way through five different zones.
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Havendock
Single-player alternative to Autonauts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Autonauts.
Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.
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Assembly Planter
Single-player alternative to Autonauts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Autonauts.
A farming / automation game, that allows you to progress from a poor hard-working farmer with just a few old tools to a lazy rich guy that watches his machines do the work for him while he tries to optimize production.
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MR FARMBOY
Single-player alternative to Autonauts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Autonauts.
MR FARMBOY is a colony farming game with automation. Build your dream farm, grow crops, raise animals, attract villagers, and hire workers to automate everything.
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Factory Town
Single-player alternative to Autonauts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Autonauts.
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
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Timberborn
Single-player alternative to Autonauts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Autonauts.
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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Roboplant
Single-player alternative to Autonauts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Autonauts.
In a future not too far away, humans are finally able to harvest food on alien planets. Embark on a new journey with your team of robots called Beebop 179. Build and manage a hydroponic farm, grow delicious plants and survive the mysterious challenges of outer space.
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Per Aspera
Single-player alternative to Autonauts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Autonauts.
Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.
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Desynced
Single-player alternative to Autonauts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Autonauts.
Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.
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Oxygen Not Included
Single-player alternative to Autonauts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Autonauts.
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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Microtopia
Single-player alternative to Autonauts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Autonauts.
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!
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Factorio
Single-player alternative to Autonauts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Autonauts.
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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EXAPUNKS
Single-player alternative to Autonauts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Autonauts.
The year is 1997. You used to be a hacker, but now you have the phage. You made a deal: one hack, one dose. There’s nothing left to lose… except your life.
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TIS-100
Single-player alternative to Autonauts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Autonauts.
TIS-100 is an open-ended programming game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infinifactory, in which you rewrite corrupted code segments to repair the TIS-100 and unlock its secrets. It’s the assembly language programming game you never asked for!
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SHENZHEN I/O
Single-player alternative to Autonauts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Autonauts.
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.