Single-player games like Lifeless Moon
Below are 22 single-player Steam games similar to Lifeless Moon, 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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Lifeless Planet Premier Edition
Single-player alternative to Lifeless Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Lifeless Moon.
PREMIER EDITION - While seeking life on a distant planet, an astronaut discovers an abandoned Russian town. He suspects his mission is a hoax until a mysterious young woman saves him from a strange and deadly phenomenon...
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The Talos Principle 2
Single-player alternative to Lifeless Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Lifeless Moon.
The Talos Principle 2 is a thought-provoking first-person puzzle experience that greatly expands on the first game's philosophical themes and stunning environments with increasingly mind-bending challenges.
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DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT
Single-player alternative to Lifeless Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Lifeless Moon.
From legendary game creator Hideo Kojima comes a genre-defying experience, now expanded in this definitive DIRECTOR’S CUT. As Sam Bridges, your mission is to deliver hope to humanity by connecting the last survivors of a decimated America. Can you reunite the shattered world, one step at a time?
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INTERSCAPE
Single-player alternative to Lifeless Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Lifeless Moon.
A colossal black sphere has appeared on Earth, trapping humanity in endless dreams. Explore surreal dream worlds, uncover hidden secrets, and awaken those who sleep. In each distinct dream, awaken new abilities and experience unique worlds.
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Venineth
Single-player alternative to Lifeless Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Lifeless Moon.
Venineth is a single-player game focusing on unraveling the mysteries of ancient alien technology, somewhere in the universe via exploration, platforming, and puzzle-solving, in a dangerous, distant worlds.
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The Voidness - Lidar Horror Survival Game
Single-player alternative to Lifeless Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Lifeless Moon.
The Voidness is a SCI-FI psychological horror game where it takes place inside the void where it's filled with just gloom - the only way to see is by scanning the environment with your range finder device, however you are not alone. Don't breathe ... as they are listening.. and watching.
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Praey for the Gods
Single-player alternative to Lifeless Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Lifeless Moon.
Praey for the Gods is a boss climbing open world adventure game where you play a lone hero sent to the edge of a dying frozen land to explore and solve the secrets of a never ending winter. Grapple, glide and grab hold of massive beasts as you fight to survive and return the world to proper order.
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1000xRESIST
Single-player alternative to Lifeless Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lifeless Moon.
1000xRESIST is a thrilling sci-fi adventure. The year is unknown, and a disease spread by an alien invasion keeps you underground. You are Watcher. You dutifully fulfil your purpose in serving the ALLMOTHER, until the day you discover a shocking secret that changes everything.
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Red Bow
Single-player alternative to Lifeless Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lifeless Moon.
If you were given another chance, would you take it? Or leave it in the hands of a little girl? Play as Roh, a young girl stuck in a bizarre nightmare of dark and eerie creatures.
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Supraland
Single-player alternative to Lifeless Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Lifeless Moon.
Try the demo! A mix between Portal, Zelda and Metroid. Exploration, puzzles, terrible combat, secret upgrades and new abilities that help you reach new places. Playtime 12-25h.
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Lifeless
Single-player alternative to Lifeless Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Lifeless Moon.
Immerse yourself in the post-apocalyptic co-op world of Lifeless, where base building and crafting are key. Collect weapons, gear, and food as you embark on thrilling missions to level up in a vast open world. But stay alert—relentless zombies lurk around every corner!
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Axiom Verge
Single-player alternative to Lifeless Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Lifeless Moon.
Explore and uncover the mystery of a surreal alien world by blasting aliens and glitching your environment in this intense retro side-scrolling action/adventure.
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DIG THE GROUND
Single-player alternative to Lifeless Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Dig the Ground is a unique Match3 puzzler in which you have to match gems of the same color and use all sorts of tools to clear the ground tiles beneath you.
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CONTRAL
Single-player alternative to Lifeless Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Lifeless Moon.
Control two characters simultaneously with your keyboard and mouse! Use your left hand to guide the robot toward the goal while your right hand creates platforms to pave the way forward. Master a unique single-player, dual-control action puzzle experience.
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Solaris
Single-player alternative to Lifeless Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Lifeless Moon.
Solaris is an immersive first-person action game set in an alternate, post-apocalyptic Soviet satellite Poland. You are Irka: a skilled rooftop runner and courier. Sneak, run and climb the roofs of the destroyed city to find a cure for your grandma infected by a mysterious disease called Solaris.
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Where the Water Tastes Like Wine
Single-player alternative to Lifeless Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lifeless Moon.
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is a Narrative-Adventure game about traveling, sharing stories, and surviving manifest destiny.
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Neversong
Single-player alternative to Lifeless Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Lifeless Moon.
Help little Peet hack-and-slash his way through a beautifully haunting coma. A hand-drawn action-adventure through a dreamy world filled with fleshy monsters, insane grown-ups, and sad children looking for their mommies.
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The King's Bird
Single-player alternative to Lifeless Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Lifeless Moon.
Escape into a world kept secret by a tyrant, and discover the truth about your freedom. Run, jump, and fly through forgotten lost kingdoms with a uniquely momentum-based flying mechanic.
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Half Past Fate
Single-player alternative to Lifeless Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lifeless Moon.
Love is in the air, but work, life, and spicy Ramen keep getting in the way! From 8 hours to 8 years, this time-jumping saga will change the way you feel about fate forever.
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Land of Screens
Single-player alternative to Lifeless Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lifeless Moon.
When Holland’s social media is lit ablaze by a recent breakup, she embarks on a new mission to ditch the social media saturation and discover some real-world relationships among a Land of Screens.
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Pixel Galaxy
Single-player alternative to Lifeless Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Lifeless Moon.
A non-shooting shoot 'em up where you must grow, make friends, and survive together.
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Return to Ash
Single-player alternative to Lifeless Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Lifeless Moon.
“The hospital was empty. Quiet, and brighter than usual... like waking up on a snow day. But I didn't feel cold. I didn't feel much of anything.”