Single-player games like Breakwaters: Crystal Tides
Below are 14 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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ATLAS
Single-player alternative to Breakwaters: Crystal Tides — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Breakwaters: Crystal Tides.
Set sail for the ultimate pirate experience! Embark on a grand adventure alongside thousands of other players in one of the largest game worlds ever built (and even claim a piece of it to call your own). Build your ship, assemble your crew, sail the high seas, and become a pirate legend!
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Windrose
Single-player alternative to Breakwaters: Crystal Tides — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Breakwaters: Crystal Tides.
Embark on a PvE survival adventure in the Age of Piracy. Fight on land and sea, solo or with friends. Build, craft and explore vast open world filled with dark secrets. Master soulslite combat and take on challenging bosses, command your ship and plunder unspoken treasures!
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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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ASKA
Single-player alternative to Breakwaters: Crystal Tides — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Breakwaters: Crystal Tides.
A new Viking age dawns with you at its helm. Forge a thriving colony from nothing in this mythic open-world survival sim. Earn the gods' favor and survive in a land ruled by ancient terrors and unforgiving seasons. Rally unique villagers, expand your settlement and defend your tribe - solo or co-op!
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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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Aloft
Single-player alternative to Breakwaters: Crystal Tides — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Breakwaters: Crystal Tides.
Soar the skies in Aloft, the co-op sandbox survival game set in a world of floating islands. Build any island into a skyship, your home in the clouds. Find lost knowledge, cure the fungal corruption, and brave the hurricane to restore the ecosystem.
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Project Zomboid
Single-player alternative to Breakwaters: Crystal Tides — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Breakwaters: Crystal Tides.
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
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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 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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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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Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
Single-player alternative to Breakwaters: Crystal Tides — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Breakwaters: Crystal Tides.
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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Enshrouded
Single-player alternative to Breakwaters: Crystal Tides — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Breakwaters: Crystal Tides.
You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.
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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.