Single-player games like Cannibal Crossing
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Cannibal Crossing, 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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Valheim
Single-player alternative to Cannibal Crossing — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cannibal Crossing.
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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Zombie Survival Game Online
Single-player alternative to Cannibal Crossing — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cannibal Crossing.
Zombie Survival Game Online is an open-world, post-apocalyptic, looter shooter. Craft, quest, explore, build, and fight for survival. Parkour up a mountainside, ramp a truck over a horde, and grab a gasmask to explore the sewers. Can you survive? Doubtful.
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Project Zomboid
Single-player alternative to Cannibal Crossing — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Cannibal Crossing.
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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Dino Path Trail
Single-player alternative to Cannibal Crossing — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cannibal Crossing.
Survive a Wild West where dinosaurs never went extinct. Fight off predators, outlaws, and the elements as you journey across deadly biomes to rescue your kidnapped sister. Hunt or be hunted in this ruthless survival roguelike.
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How to Survive 2
Single-player alternative to Cannibal Crossing — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Cannibal Crossing.
Dead or Alive? Make up your mind, stranger. We don’t like that undead business here in Louisiana…Survive solo or with friends as you look to fulfill your basic needs of food, water and shelter, crafting your own tools and weapons while you secure your camp and face flesh hungry zombies.
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Kenshi
Single-player alternative to Cannibal Crossing — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cannibal Crossing.
A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.
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Crashlands
Single-player alternative to Cannibal Crossing — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cannibal Crossing.
Fight and tame alien beasts, craft resources into menacing weaponry, befriend the outlandish locals, and go toe-to-chin with a world-domineering maniac.
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Dig or Die
Single-player alternative to Cannibal Crossing — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cannibal Crossing.
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.