Single-player games like Deep Despair
Below are 20 single-player Steam games similar to Deep Despair, 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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Crashlands
Single-player alternative to Deep Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deep Despair.
Fight and tame alien beasts, craft resources into menacing weaponry, befriend the outlandish locals, and go toe-to-chin with a world-domineering maniac.
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Terraria
Single-player alternative to Deep Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deep Despair.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
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Planet Explorers
Single-player alternative to Deep Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deep Despair.
Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.
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Force of Nature
Single-player alternative to Deep Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deep Despair.
Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres
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Tinkerlands
Single-player alternative to Deep Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deep Despair.
Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!
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The Forest
Single-player alternative to Deep Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deep Despair.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
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Necesse
Single-player alternative to Deep Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deep Despair.
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
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Core Keeper
Single-player alternative to Deep Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deep Despair.
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
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Don't Starve Together
Single-player alternative to Deep Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deep Despair.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
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Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
Single-player alternative to Deep Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Deep Despair.
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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Stardew Valley
Single-player alternative to Deep Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Deep Despair.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
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Minecraft Legends
Single-player alternative to Deep Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Deep Despair.
Discover the mysteries of Minecraft Legends, a new action strategy game. Explore a gentle land of rich resources and lush biomes on the brink of destruction. The ravaging piglins have arrived, and it’s up to you to inspire your allies and lead them in strategic battles to save the Overworld!
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Blood Harvest 3
Single-player alternative to Deep Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deep Despair.
Dynamic, hardcore and explosive action on the passage with a bunch of weapons, enemies and bosses.
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Blood Harvest 2
Single-player alternative to Deep Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deep Despair.
A HARDCORE platform game with lots of enemies, blood and explosions!
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Super Blasting Boy
Single-player alternative to Deep Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deep Despair.
Super Blasting Boy is a logical platform platformer made in the best traditions of retro games of the late 80's and 90's.
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VVVVV
Single-player alternative to Deep Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deep Despair.
VVVVV is a colorful, dynamic platformer action with puzzle elements, made in retro style.
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Deep Despair 2
Single-player alternative to Deep Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deep Despair.
Deep Despair 2 is an open world survival adventure action game with procedural generation and complete freedom of action: building, crafting, hunting, farming, livestock, brewing, cooking, traveling, fight, and more.
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Deadfall
Single-player alternative to Deep Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deep Despair.
Deadfall is a dark, bloody, atmospheric, dynamic, brutal shooter in the spirit of action movies of the 80s and 90s.
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Risk of Pain
Single-player alternative to Deep Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deep Despair.
Risk of Pain is a hardcore puzzle platformer that challenges you to complete many challenging levels. Use parkour, wit and luck to avoid dying! Are you ready to take a risk?!
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Deep Despair 3
Single-player alternative to Deep Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deep Despair.
Deep Despair 3 is an open-world survival action-adventure with RPG elements! Fight, survive, dig, build, explore vast worlds, engage in farming, breed animals, gather resources, and level up to the max!