Single-player games like Breakwaters: Crystal Tides
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Breakwaters: Crystal Tides, 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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Salt 2: Shores of Gold
Single-player alternative to Breakwaters: Crystal Tides — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Breakwaters: Crystal Tides.
Salt 2 is a pirate-themed open world adventure focused on exploration, crafting, and survival. Play solo or with up to 5 friends, sailing the sea with your ship as a mobile base. Discover islands full of quests, towns, caves, and secrets. Level up, craft gear, hunt, fish, and customize your ship.
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Voyagers of Nera
Single-player alternative to Breakwaters: Crystal Tides — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Breakwaters: Crystal Tides.
Voyagers of Nera is a cooperative survival-crafting game where you must survive a magical ocean world brimming with lost spirits and deadly monsters. Sail to distant islands, build beautiful villages and surf across the waves with up to 10 players.
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Forever Skies
Single-player alternative to Breakwaters: Crystal Tides — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Breakwaters: Crystal Tides.
A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.
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Craftopia
Single-player alternative to Breakwaters: Crystal Tides — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Breakwaters: Crystal Tides.
Craftopia is the brand new multiplayer survival action game made in Japan. We combined many features we find enjoyable, such as hunting, farming, hack-and-slash, building, automation to develop this game.
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My Time at Sandrock
Single-player alternative to Breakwaters: Crystal Tides — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Breakwaters: Crystal Tides.
Travel to the desert community of Sandrock and take on the role of a fledgling Builder. Use your trusty toolset to gather resources, construct machines, and turn your run-down workshop into a well-oiled production facility to save the town from the jaws of economic ruin!
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Smalland: Survive the Wilds
Single-player alternative to Breakwaters: Crystal Tides — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Breakwaters: Crystal Tides.
Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.
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Stranded Deep
Single-player alternative to Breakwaters: Crystal Tides — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Breakwaters: Crystal Tides.
Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.
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Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
Single-player alternative to Breakwaters: Crystal Tides — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Breakwaters: Crystal Tides.
Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
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Valheim
Single-player alternative to Breakwaters: Crystal Tides — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Breakwaters: Crystal Tides.
A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
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Enshrouded
Single-player alternative to Breakwaters: Crystal Tides — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Breakwaters: Crystal Tides.
Enshrouded is a solo and co-op survival action RPG where your freedom and creativity come first. Conquer the Shroud, a corrupting fog devouring the kingdom of Embervale: explore a handcrafted world full of secrets, forge your hero your way, and build anything, anywhere in a fully terraformable land.
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Dawn of Defiance
Single-player alternative to Breakwaters: Crystal Tides — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Breakwaters: Crystal Tides.
You are the Defier, a Spartan beginning your afterlife on the Crossroads. In this Greek myth-inspired survival craft, ascend from weak soldier to god-like anti-hero. Build impressive Greek structures, craft legendary gear, and break the seals of the Underworld with up to 3 friends.
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Soulmask
Single-player alternative to Breakwaters: Crystal Tides — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Breakwaters: Crystal Tides.
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.