Single-player games like Urge
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Urge, 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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Zector 7
Single-player alternative to Urge — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Urge.
Craft, Build and Fight alongside your friends across this deadly open-world. Use both modern day and sci-fi tech as you Loot, Harvest and Trade for resources, gear and vehicles in order to survive the wasteland.
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Odd Woods
Single-player alternative to Urge — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Urge.
Odd Woods is a survival crafting game in a forest environment. Build your base during the day to withstand the attacks of horror creatures at night. Explore, farm and hunt wildlife to survive another day.
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Heat Death: Survival Train
Single-player alternative to Urge — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Urge.
Heat Death is a sci-fi survival game where you can build, upgrade, and customize your battle train to explore and survive a frozen world! This train is not only your shelter and vehicle, but also your weapon and ally to face hostile drones, deadly storms, and hidden mysteries of an unknown world!
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Abiotic Factor
Single-player alternative to Urge — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Urge.
Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.
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The Forest
Single-player alternative to Urge — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Urge.
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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The Infected
Single-player alternative to Urge — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Urge.
The Infected is a sandbox, first-person, open-world survival game. Build bases, craft, farm, hunt, and survive changing seasons. Choose whether to face the hybrid “Vambies” or turn them off for a pure survival experience.
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Crushed
Single-player alternative to Urge — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Urge.
Crushed — is an Singleplayer and Multiplayer First-Person Survival Sandbox in an Open World! Challenge the wild and be ready to survive in harsh conditions. Explore the world, get resources, cook food, build a house, farm, hunt, and enjoy nature.
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ARK: Survival Evolved
Single-player alternative to Urge — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Urge.
Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!
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Subsistence
Single-player alternative to Urge — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Early Access with Urge.
Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).
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Sons Of The Forest
Single-player alternative to Urge — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Urge.
Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.
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Sunkenland
Single-player alternative to Urge — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Urge.
Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?
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Mist Survival
Single-player alternative to Urge — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Urge.
MIST SURVIVAL is a Single-player, survival stealth sandbox game Players will experience the Apocalypse stimulation in the form of virus pandemic, the players have to deal with it to survive through the difficulties such as finding shelter and food, threats from the environment and climate: wild animals, bandits, infected, and dense mist t
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7 Days to Die
Single-player alternative to Urge — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Urge.
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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Project Zomboid
Single-player alternative to Urge — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Urge.
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..