Single-player games like ICARUS
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to ICARUS, 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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Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to ICARUS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with ICARUS.
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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Green Hell
Single-player alternative to ICARUS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with ICARUS.
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
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Valheim
Single-player alternative to ICARUS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with ICARUS.
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
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The Planet Crafter
Single-player alternative to ICARUS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with ICARUS.
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
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Voidtrain
Single-player alternative to ICARUS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with ICARUS.
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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Sons Of The Forest
Single-player alternative to ICARUS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with ICARUS.
Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.
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TerraTech Worlds
Single-player alternative to ICARUS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with ICARUS.
TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment
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Soulmask
Single-player alternative to ICARUS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with ICARUS.
Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.
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The Long Dark
Single-player alternative to ICARUS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with ICARUS.
THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.
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No Man's Sky
Single-player alternative to ICARUS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with ICARUS.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
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ARK: Survival Evolved
Single-player alternative to ICARUS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with ICARUS.
Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!
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Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
Single-player alternative to ICARUS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with ICARUS.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
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Conan Exiles
Single-player alternative to ICARUS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with ICARUS.
An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.
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Stationeers
Single-player alternative to ICARUS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Simulation with ICARUS.
Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!
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Out of Ammo
Single-player alternative to ICARUS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with ICARUS.
Out of Ammo is an intense VR Tower Defense / FPS hybrid strategy game that will have you constructing defenses, calling in artillery, issuing orders, and taking direct control of your soldiers in order to survive a relentless enemy onslaught.
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Out of Ammo: Death Drive
Single-player alternative to ICARUS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with ICARUS.
Death Drive is the apocalyptic sequel to Out of Ammo, a hybrid VR Tower Defense / FPS strategy game. Embark on a wild road trip developed exclusively for VR. Build defenses, scavenge scrap and and kill undead zombie hordes using an arsenal of firearms, melee weapons and mounted defenses.
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Art of the Rail
Single-player alternative to ICARUS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with ICARUS.
Spiritual remake of the classic transport tycoon games. Build a profitable transport network and grow your worlds economy, either on your own in singleplayer or in multiplayer whether cooperatively or competitively.