Single-player games like Artificial Extinction
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Artificial Extinction, 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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The Riftbreaker: Prologue
Single-player alternative to Artificial Extinction — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Artificial Extinction.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
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The Riftbreaker
Single-player alternative to Artificial Extinction — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Artificial Extinction.
The Riftbreaker is a solo or Co-op base-building, survival game with Action-RPG elements for up to 4 players. Hack & slash countless hordes of enemies. Build up your base, craft powerful weapons and research new inventions to survive.
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Dungeon of the ENDLESS™
Single-player alternative to Artificial Extinction — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Artificial Extinction.
Dungeon of the ENDLESS™ is a Rogue-Like Dungeon-Defense game, in which the player and their team of heroes must protect the generator of their crashed ship while exploring an ever-expanding dungeon, all while facing waves of monsters and special events as they try to find their way out...
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Legends of Ellaria
Single-player alternative to Artificial Extinction — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Artificial Extinction.
Legends of Ellaria is a unique blend of sandbox action-RPG and real-time strategy. Build a new kingdom for your people, construct and manage its cities, command your troops in epic battles and join them fighting in third-person action, and live adventures in an immersive high fantasy world.
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Machine Mind
Single-player alternative to Artificial Extinction — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Artificial Extinction.
Machine Mind is an action game in a post-apocalyptic setting with elements of survival and RTS. You will fight, craft modules, build your transport, develop and protect your base. You can control other vehicles to automate operations. Discover all the secrets of the destroyed world!
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Sanctum 2
Single-player alternative to Artificial Extinction — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Artificial Extinction.
Sanctum 2 is the sequel to the world’s first Tower Defense/FPS hybrid game. Pick from four unique character classes and embark on a mission to protect the oxygen-producing Cores from hordes of deadly aliens who are threatened by their existence.
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Cultivation Tales
Single-player alternative to Artificial Extinction — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Artificial Extinction.
Cultivation Tales is an open world survival craft online game. You will experience collecting, crafting, hunting, fighting, building, researching, in a wild mythical world. Fight for your clan and yourself, from mortal to divinity!
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The Long Journey Home
Single-player alternative to Artificial Extinction — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Artificial Extinction.
The Long Journey Home combines an open world full of galaxies, planets and anomalies with quests and mechanics of a rogue-like RPG. One destination. Endless adventures. Where will this journey take you?