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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Green Hell
Single-player alternative to The Highrise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure 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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SKYHILL
Single-player alternative to The Highrise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Highrise.
World War III is over, the world's infested with mutants and your supplies are running out. Fight your way down this damned hotel, from your penthouse on top to the first floor. Craft weapons, search for food and reach the exit. Otherwise you'll be torn apart, starve to death or maybe both...
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Pacific Drive
Single-player alternative to The Highrise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Highrise.
Face the supernatural dangers of the Olympic Exclusion Zone with a car as your only lifeline in this driving survival adventure! Scavenge resources, load up your trusty station wagon, and drive like hell to make it through alive.
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Project Zomboid
Single-player alternative to The Highrise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Highrise.
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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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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The Long Dark
Single-player alternative to The Highrise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Indie with The Highrise.
THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.
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DESOLATE
Single-player alternative to The Highrise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Highrise.
DESOLATE is a first person horror survival experience. Form a research team with up to 4 players and explore an open world filled with mysteries and unsolved questions, or do it all on your own.
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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.