Single-player games like Deep Despair
Below are 18 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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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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Don't Starve
Single-player alternative to Deep Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deep Despair.
Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.
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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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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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Dig or Die
Single-player alternative to Deep Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deep Despair.
Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.
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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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Valheim
Single-player alternative to Deep Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deep Despair.
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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Voidtrain
Single-player alternative to Deep Despair — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deep Despair.
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
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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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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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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!