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Single-player games like Teardown

Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Teardown, 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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    Storm Chasers — Steam game cover

    Storm Chasers

    Single-player alternative to Teardown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Teardown.

    Be one of those intrepid storm chasers in this online multiplayer video game. Your goal is to shoot the best twisters pictures without dying because of powerful winds and flying debris. Feel the challenge of correctly forecasting and intercepting storms with the optimal vantage points before other players.

    2019ActionIndieSimulation12.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Voxel Project VR — Steam game cover

    Voxel Project VR

    Single-player alternative to Teardown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Teardown.

    Voxel Project offers an immersive sandbox experience set in a fully destructible voxel environment. Explore a dynamic world teeming with vehicles, dynamic fire mechanics, enemy NPCs, voxel gore, weapon customization, and a bunch of additional features to discover.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Building Destruction — Steam game cover

    Building Destruction

    Single-player alternative to Teardown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Teardown.

    Multiplayer sandbox with destructible environment. Destroy different maps, build your own, and play with your friends and other people online

    2023ActionIndieSimulation4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    BeamNG.drive — Steam game cover

    BeamNG.drive

    Single-player alternative to Teardown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Teardown.

    A dynamic soft-body physics vehicle simulator capable of doing just about anything.

    2015SimulationEarly AccessRacing24.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    BeastLink — Steam game cover

    BeastLink

    Single-player alternative to Teardown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Teardown.

    BeastLink is a giant multiplayer Kaiju game featuring intense PvP or PvE combat. Humans, vehicles and Beasts collide in urban environments where everything & everyone can be destroyed. Build your Link, command giant Kaijus, and unleash devastating power before it consumes you!

    2026ActionEarly Access17.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Brick Rigs — Steam game cover

    Brick Rigs

    Single-player alternative to Teardown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Teardown.

    Build your own vehicles or download one of the more than 200,000 creations already uploaded to the Workshop and experience the dynamic driving and destruction physics of Brick Rigs!

    2023Simulation19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Medieval Engineers — Steam game cover

    Medieval Engineers

    Single-player alternative to Teardown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Teardown.

    Medieval Engineers is a sandbox game about engineering, construction and the maintenance of architectural works and mechanical equipment using medieval technology. Players build castles; construct mechanical devices and underground mining. There is an entire planet to explore!

    2015ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Need for Speed™ — Steam game cover

    Need for Speed™

    Single-player alternative to Teardown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Simulation with Teardown.

    Ready to own the streets? Get behind the wheel of iconic cars and floor it through Ventura Bay, a sprawling urban playground. Explore overlapping stories as you build your reputation – and your dream car – and become the ultimate racing icon.

    2020ActionAdventureSimulation7.49 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series — Steam game cover

    Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series

    Single-player alternative to Teardown — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    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.

    2015AdventureDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Totally Accurate Battle Simulator — Steam game cover

    Totally Accurate Battle Simulator

    Single-player alternative to Teardown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Teardown.

    Be the leader of wobblers from ancient lands, spooky places, and fantasy worlds. Watch them fight in simulations made with the wobbliest physics system ever created, make your own wobblers in the unit creator and send your army off to fight your friends in multiplayer.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Instruments of Destruction — Steam game cover

    Instruments of Destruction

    Single-player alternative to Teardown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Teardown.

    Crash through walls and tear down buildings in Instruments of Destruction, a vehicle-action game featuring advanced physics-based demolition. Pilot 130+ unique vehicles across scores of challenge-packed missions or design your own contraptions and wreck highly-interactive sandbox worlds.

    2024ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Garry's Mod — Steam game cover

    Garry's Mod

    Single-player alternative to Teardown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Teardown.

    Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Scrap Mechanic — Steam game cover

    Scrap Mechanic

    Single-player alternative to Teardown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Teardown.

    Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!

    2026ActionIndieAdventure28.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator — Steam game cover

    Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator

    Single-player alternative to Teardown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Teardown.

    Here is a sandbox like no other. Create massive battles with absolutely no limits. Want to see 10,000 chickens fight an army of Romans?? Sure, why not. Want to see a company of WW2 U.S soldiers fight 11,000 Medieval soldiers?? There are simply no limits to the carnage you can achieve in UEBS.

    2017ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Red Faction Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered — Steam game cover

    Red Faction Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered

    Single-player alternative to Teardown — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    Red Faction: Guerrilla re-defines the limits of destruction-based game-play with a huge open-world, fast-paced guerrilla-style combat, and true physics-based destruction.

    201819.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →