Single-player games like Remains
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Remains, 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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Life Not Supported
Single-player alternative to Remains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Remains.
You are the lone survivor orbiting a potential new home planet, tethered to what’s left of your ship. Gather nearby debris and assemble a make-shift vessel in an attempt to survive the harsh realities of space. Maybe you'll live long enough to uncover the truth behind the ship's malfunction...
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Space Trash Scavenger
Single-player alternative to Remains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Remains.
Grab your jetpack and explore procedural asteroid fields, derelict spaceships and abandoned outposts. Build and automate your Space Rig to process scavenged trash. Craft, trade and fight your way home in this interstellar, open-world survival sandbox.
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Breathedge
Single-player alternative to Remains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Remains.
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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Eden Crafters
Single-player alternative to Remains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Remains.
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
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ASTRONEER
Single-player alternative to Remains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Remains.
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.
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Crashlands
Single-player alternative to Remains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Remains.
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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ARK: Survival Evolved
Single-player alternative to Remains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Remains.
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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No Man's Sky
Single-player alternative to Remains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Remains.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
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Raft
Single-player alternative to Remains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Remains.
Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!
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Star Shelter
Single-player alternative to Remains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Remains.
Star shelter is a space survival game built from the ground up for VR. You are stranded in space, you must climb around in Zero-G, explore, scavenge, craft, hack and fight to survive. You have to build, arm and upgrade your own space station in order to escape the cosmic graveyard.
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Space Engineers
Single-player alternative to Remains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Remains.
Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.
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Operation Sniff
Single-player alternative to Remains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Remains.
Operation Sniff game for one or two players. In a single player game you have to play for a dog and complete all the tasks assigned to you. In the mode of confrontation, players have to choose the role of a person or a dog, and fight among themselves, destroying each other or completing all tasks.
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Stacked!
Single-player alternative to Remains — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Remains.
A pleasant evening to relax - but not here. Get dressed, fix your hair, and strike a winning pose. Try building a tower out of your small figurines alone, or gather up to 4 players. A lucky figurine can lead to victory - or defeat.