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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CryoFall
Single-player alternative to ICARUS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with ICARUS.
CryoFall is a sci-fi colony simulation survival game set on a forgotten planet in a distant future. Master technology, agriculture, trading, industry, cybernetics, exploration, and more!
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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.