Single-player games like The Highrise
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to The Highrise, 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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The Forest
Single-player alternative to The Highrise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Highrise.
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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KeepUp Survival
Single-player alternative to The Highrise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Highrise.
KeepUp Survival is an open base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and unfold your own story on a mysterious island.
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Grounded
Single-player alternative to The Highrise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Highrise.
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
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MISERY
Single-player alternative to The Highrise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Highrise.
MISERY is a 1–5 player co-op survival game set in a nuclear disaster zone. Here, every day is a struggle: search radioactive ruins for resources, build your bunker, craft weapons, and explore a weird, procedurally-generated world with your friends. Beware of anomalies, monsters, and armed bandits.
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Dying Light
Single-player alternative to The Highrise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Highrise.
First-person action survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by flesh-hungry zombies. Roam a city devastated by a mysterious virus epidemic. Scavenge for supplies, craft weapons, and face hordes of the infected.
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Green Hell
Single-player alternative to The Highrise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Highrise.
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
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Don't Starve Together
Single-player alternative to The Highrise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Highrise.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
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Voidtrain
Single-player alternative to The Highrise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Highrise.
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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7 Days to Die
Single-player alternative to The Highrise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Highrise.
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
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Monstrum
Single-player alternative to The Highrise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Highrise.
Monstrum takes the traditional survival horror formula and remixes it completely with procedurally generated levels, permadeath, and AI driven predators, ensuring that nowhere on its derelict cargo ship is ever truly safe.