Single-player games like Craftopia
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Craftopia, 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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Core Keeper
Single-player alternative to Craftopia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Craftopia.
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
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Palworld
Single-player alternative to Craftopia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Craftopia.
Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
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Valheim
Single-player alternative to Craftopia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Craftopia.
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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Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to Craftopia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Craftopia.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
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Soulmask
Single-player alternative to Craftopia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Craftopia.
Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.
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Forager
Single-player alternative to Craftopia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Craftopia.
The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!
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Night of the Dead
Single-player alternative to Craftopia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Craftopia.
'Night of the Dead' is an open-world game that combines elements of exploration, tower defense, survival, and crafting. Traverse a world dominated by zombies while collecting various resources and powerful equipment. Build a fortress to survive the hordes of zombies that swarm every night!
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Conan Exiles
Single-player alternative to Craftopia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Craftopia.
An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.
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Subnautica
Single-player alternative to Craftopia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Craftopia.
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
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Necesse
Single-player alternative to Craftopia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Craftopia.
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
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Subnautica: Below Zero
Single-player alternative to Craftopia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Craftopia.
Dive into a freezing underwater adventure on an alien planet. Below Zero is set two years after the original Subnautica. Return to Planet 4546B to uncover the truth behind a deadly cover-up. Survive by building habitats, crafting tools, & diving deeper into the world of Subnautica.
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Starbound
Single-player alternative to Craftopia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Craftopia.
You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...
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No Man's Sky
Single-player alternative to Craftopia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Craftopia.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
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Terraria
Single-player alternative to Craftopia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Craftopia.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
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Fallout 4
Single-player alternative to Craftopia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Craftopia.
From Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of Starfield and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, comes Fallout 4. A landmark in open-world RPG design and winner of over 200 ‘Best Of’ honors, including the DICE and BAFTA Game of the Year.
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Dawnlands
Single-player alternative to Craftopia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Craftopia.
Dawnlands is an Open-World Survival Crafting cross-platform game with a massive world and epic lore. A variety of biomes, relics, and puzzles dot the landscape... an ancient land, lain dormant for centuries, is waiting to be awoken. New stories are waiting to be written.
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Overdungeon
Single-player alternative to Craftopia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Craftopia.
A completely new style real-time card battle "Overdungeon" Overdungeon combines rogue-like, tower defense and card games. More than 100 cards are Attack, Animal, Building, Spell, Trap, etc..Build your creative and crazy deck!