Single-player games like Harvest Island
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Harvest Island, 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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사괴야행
Single-player alternative to Harvest Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Harvest Island.
Let's escape from the shrine to find the five beads sealed in the red box to avoid various goblins.
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Doloc Town
Single-player alternative to Harvest Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Harvest Island.
Doloc Town is a cozy pixel-art farming simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Build your dream farm from scratch and explore this mysterious wasteland. Harvest, plant, build, and uncover the untold stories of this forgotten land.
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Tales of Seikyu
Single-player alternative to Harvest Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Harvest Island.
A peaceful farming life sim set on the island of Seikyu. Grow your farm, restore your ancestral home, form heartfelt bonds with villagers, and shapeshift into different spirit forms to explore a world that moves gently with the seasons.
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Stranded Sails - Explorers of the Cursed Islands
Single-player alternative to Harvest Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Harvest Island.
Farm, cook, craft and decorate in this casual open world farming adventure! Set up camp with your crew after being shipwrecked on a mysterious archipelago. Your quest is to survive, explore and uncover the secrets of the Cursed Islands. Take care of your crew to build relationships and earn rewards!
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Strange Antiquities
Single-player alternative to Harvest Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Harvest Island.
Become the custodian of a store dealing in occult antiquities. Explore the quaint and gloomy town of Undermere, where strange goings-on and dark mysteries abound. Find and identify arcane artefacts, use your collection to aid the townsfolk with their unusual problems — and remember to pet your cat!
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Hokko Life
Single-player alternative to Harvest Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Harvest Island.
Hop off the train and into your new life in the village of Hokko! Take over the old workshop and get creative; use crafted materials and design everything in town! With complete creative freedom, what type of town will you build?
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Besmirch
Single-player alternative to Harvest Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Harvest Island.
The town of Besmirch starves. Stave off the hunger as the latest farmhand in this survival horror farming sim, earning the trust of paranoid townsfolk under the thumb of the corrupt Baron. Tend to both your farm and the town while avoiding unholy terrors that come in the night.
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Firefly Village
Single-player alternative to Harvest Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Harvest Island.
The Firefly Village awaits! A bite-sized, streamlined farming sim that focuses on moments that matter, without wasting a single second of your time. Build a homestead, raise crops, tend to livestock, make friends, and enjoy a pocket of paradise where farming is a delight and friends plentiful.
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Stardew Valley
Single-player alternative to Harvest Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Harvest Island.
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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Mad Father
Single-player alternative to Harvest Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Harvest Island.
Witness the tale of a most foolish family. A remake of the classic horror exploration game makes its way to Steam.
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The Promised Land
Single-player alternative to Harvest Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Harvest Island.
The Promised Land, a brave new world , the hole nation – all this lies in your hands! Become a true leader, a chosen one, a father of nation! Guide your colony to the victory of the modern superpower! We collected all the best that is in games of this genre, arched by exciting mini-games and carefully turned it into the deep and...
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Corpse Party (2021)
Single-player alternative to Harvest Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Harvest Island.
Explore the haunted halls of Heavenly Host Elementary in Corpse Party (2021), the horror cult classic now updated for the next generation.
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The Witch's House
Single-player alternative to Harvest Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Harvest Island.
There is an old house on the edge of a small town. All the locals have always avoided it, as strange and mysterious events constantly happen there. This time, what happened in this house made the whole city shudder with fear.
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Em-A-Li
Single-player alternative to Harvest Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Harvest Island.
A portal inspired walking simulator horror game.
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Em-A-Zurvival
Single-player alternative to Harvest Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Harvest Island.
The continuation of Em-A-Li in this zombie themed horror puzzle game. Escape from your apartment and survive the jump scares.
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A Journey's End
Single-player alternative to Harvest Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Harvest Island.
A boy wakes up in the spirit world not knowing how he got there. He needs to find a way home but is caught up working for the owner of the bath house. Forced to work, he must find a way to escape the bath house, and find his way back home before the spirit feast festival arrives