Single-player games like Terraria
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Terraria, 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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Starbound
Single-player alternative to Terraria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Terraria.
You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...
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Core Keeper
Single-player alternative to Terraria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Terraria.
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
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Necesse
Single-player alternative to Terraria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Terraria.
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
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Subnautica
Single-player alternative to Terraria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Terraria.
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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Valheim
Single-player alternative to Terraria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Terraria.
A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
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Stardew Valley
Single-player alternative to Terraria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Terraria.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
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7 Days to Die
Single-player alternative to Terraria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Terraria.
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
- 8
Don't Starve Together
Single-player alternative to Terraria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Terraria.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
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No Man's Sky
Single-player alternative to Terraria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Terraria.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
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Kerbal Space Program
Single-player alternative to Terraria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Terraria.
In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Single-player alternative to Terraria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Terraria.
You are Geralt of Rivia, mercenary monster slayer. Before you stands a war-torn, monster-infested continent you can explore at will. Your current contract? Tracking down Ciri — the Child of Prophecy, a living weapon that can alter the shape of the world.
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Oxygen Not Included
Single-player alternative to Terraria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Terraria.
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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Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to Terraria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Terraria.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
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Dwarf Fortress
Single-player alternative to Terraria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Terraria.
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
- 15
Elite Dangerous
Single-player alternative to Terraria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Terraria.
Take control of your own starship and blaze your trail in an ever-changing galaxy. Master the arts of combat, mining and trade or venture out into the unknown across a 1:1 scale universe.
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ASTRONEER
Single-player alternative to Terraria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Terraria.
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.