Single-player games like Urge
Below are 12 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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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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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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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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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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MISERY
Single-player alternative to Urge — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Urge.
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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Whisper of the Swallows
Single-player alternative to Urge — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Urge.
Brave a savage, unforgiving procedurally generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark will hunt you down. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to turn a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.
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Breathedge
Single-player alternative to Urge — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Urge.
Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.
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VEIN
Single-player alternative to Urge — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Simulation with Urge.
VEIN is a post-apocalyptic survival multiplayer sandbox game. Gather supplies to survive, explore abandoned buildings, defend your home, and rebuild society, whether alone or with friends.
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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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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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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..