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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CAT Interstellar: Recast
Single-player alternative to Lifeless Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lifeless Moon.
A short story inspired by Robert Heinlein's:The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress. The first iteration in a fight for Android freedom.
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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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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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It Comes In Waves
Single-player alternative to Lifeless Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Lifeless Moon.
A short, minimalist, experimental open-world adventure about guilt and grief. Explore, shoot, scavenge and bring a specimen to The Sanctuary. Beware PERMADEATH.
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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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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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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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Contrast
Single-player alternative to Lifeless Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lifeless Moon.
CONTRAST is a puzzle/platform game where you can move between a fantastic 3D world and a mysterious shadowy universe in 2D in the blink of an eye. Delve into a dreamlike and surreal 1920s world, inspired by the performance art world of vaudeville and film noir, and cradled by a smooth and sultry jazz ambiance.
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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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Solaris
Single-player alternative to Lifeless Moon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Lifeless Moon.
"Solaris" is a story about a journey in search of yourself. The hero fulfills the last will of a loved one, meeting many strange characters. The road is full of humor, but the further you go, the stronger the feeling becomes: beneath the cozy surface, something terrible is awakening.
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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.”