Single-player games like Elsewhere
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Elsewhere, 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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Factorio
Single-player alternative to Elsewhere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Elsewhere.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
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Stellar Shipyard
Single-player alternative to Elsewhere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Elsewhere.
Stellar Shipyard is a space colony sandbox where you design modular ships and stations, and automate resource production using drones and workers. Let the automated systems fly even the most improvised designs. Face rival factions and threats solo, or alongside friends as allies or rivals.
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Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to Elsewhere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Elsewhere.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
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Wonderia
Single-player alternative to Elsewhere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Elsewhere.
Wonderia's an open-world, manga-art adventure just waiting to be explored. It's got sci-fi sim elements, deep dungeons, and you can even morph into alien form! Grab up to 7 friends to mine, craft, battle, and level—or farm and fish the day away, if that's more your tempo. There's so much to do!
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Orebound
Single-player alternative to Elsewhere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Elsewhere.
Orebound is a dwarven themed factory automation game. Play alone or with friends as you build, mine, craft and explore a voxel generated world! Build your fortress, expand your factory, fight off creatures who dwell beneath the mountains and embark on a journey of greatness.
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AETHUS
Single-player alternative to Elsewhere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Elsewhere.
Explore a vast underground world to mine and craft hundreds of items while building up your modular Outpost on the surface, to prospect for gems, refine resources and farm hydroponic crops in this top-down sci-fi survival-crafter where the story always provides a reason to dig deeper.
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Blossom: The Seed of Life
Single-player alternative to Elsewhere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Elsewhere.
Terraform a dead planet back to life in this open world survival crafting game. Explore ruins, gather resources, print machines, drive modular vehicles, grow forests, biomes, and ecosystems. Create life and make it thrive with your own hands.
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TerraTech Worlds
Single-player alternative to Elsewhere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Elsewhere.
TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment
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Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
Single-player alternative to Elsewhere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Elsewhere.
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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Minecraft Legends
Single-player alternative to Elsewhere — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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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Hearthlands
Single-player alternative to Elsewhere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Elsewhere.
Hearthlands is a medieval/fantasy city-building real time strategy game in which you take a role of a king in a procedurally generated world. You can not control your subjects directly; instead you focus on city-building, resource management, diplomacy, magic, etc.