Single-player games like Autonauts
Below are 16 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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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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The Colonists
Single-player alternative to Autonauts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Autonauts.
Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.
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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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Forager
Single-player alternative to Autonauts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Autonauts.
The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!
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Outpath
Single-player alternative to Autonauts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Autonauts.
An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
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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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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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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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Bitburner
Single-player alternative to Autonauts — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Bitburner is a programming-based incremental game. Write scripts in JavaScript to automate gameplay, learn skills, play minigames, solve puzzles, and more in this cyberpunk text-based incremental RPG.
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Space Engineers
Single-player alternative to Autonauts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Autonauts.
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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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.
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Sniper Dan
Single-player alternative to Autonauts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Autonauts.
Sniper Dan is a delightfully funny, family-friendly 3D Hidden Object game with a big twist. Use a sniper rifle to solve hundreds of low-stakes jobs across six packed locations, discover surprising secrets, snap hilarious photo ops, and unlock costumes, upgrades, office décor, collectables and more!