Single-player games like Desert Skies
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Desert Skies, 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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Outlaws of the Old West
Single-player alternative to Desert Skies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Desert Skies.
Outlaws of the Old West is a massively multiplayer survival MMO with a huge world, thousands of items and a modular building system. Survive the wild, build your own homestead, defeat villainous bandits and work with others to tame the Wild West.
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Volcanoids
Single-player alternative to Desert Skies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Desert Skies.
A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.
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Heat Death: Survival Train
Single-player alternative to Desert Skies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Desert Skies.
Heat Death is a sci-fi survival game where you can build, upgrade, and customize your battle train to explore and survive a frozen world! This train is not only your shelter and vehicle, but also your weapon and ally to face hostile drones, deadly storms, and hidden mysteries of an unknown world!
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Subsistence
Single-player alternative to Desert Skies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Early Access with Desert Skies.
Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).
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Bermuda - Lost Survival
Single-player alternative to Desert Skies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Desert Skies.
Survivors, Adventurers, Explorers! Prepare for the journey of your life and experience one of the world’s most mysterious regions! The Bermuda Triangle is notorious for the vanishing of countless ships and airplanes. Will you survive long enough to reveal its secret?
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Hold Your Own
Single-player alternative to Desert Skies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Desert Skies.
A single player open world sandbox, crafting and survival FPS game set in a multi-island land where you'll fight to survive. Build your base, hunt and craft to defend yourself from aggressive wildlife, enemies or friends. Do you have what it takes to Hold Your Own?
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Mist Survival
Single-player alternative to Desert Skies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Desert Skies.
MIST SURVIVAL is a Single-player, survival stealth sandbox game Players will experience the Apocalypse stimulation in the form of virus pandemic, the players have to deal with it to survive through the difficulties such as finding shelter and food, threats from the environment and climate: wild animals, bandits, infected, and dense mist t
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Voidtrain
Single-player alternative to Desert Skies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Desert Skies.
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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Raft
Single-player alternative to Desert Skies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desert Skies.
Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!