Single-player games like Dungeon Island
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Dungeon Island, 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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Away To The Stars
Single-player alternative to Dungeon Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dungeon Island.
Explore over 1 million planets in an endless universe. Fight in brutal ground combat, from your ship, or aboard your freighter. Hack, loot, steal, upgrade, craft, build, and deceive your way to power. Uncover your past and help humanity find a new home. If No Man’s Sky and Starbound had a child.
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Hallowlands
Single-player alternative to Dungeon Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dungeon Island.
Explore a procedurally generated open world with many biomes to explore and harvest resources from. You can chop down trees, mine rocks/ore, and find unique items to help you along your journey. Using the resources that you find, you can craft powerful weapons and items.
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Magisterium: Fantasy Craft
Single-player alternative to Dungeon Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dungeon Island.
A grinding medieval fantasy life sim with a detailed complex crafting system complemented by survival and RPG elements. Grind resources, craft items, trade with locals, master professions, fulfill quests and explore the world to uncover its long-lost secrets.
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Core Keeper
Single-player alternative to Dungeon Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dungeon Island.
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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Vagabond
Single-player alternative to Dungeon Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dungeon Island.
Explore procedurally generated living worlds in this 2D sandbox RPG. Meet hundreds of characters in cities, complete quests, craft powerful items, buy and furnish your home or fight monsters in dungeons.
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Without A Roof (W.A.R.)
Single-player alternative to Dungeon Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dungeon Island.
Hunt, or be hunted - W.A.R. is a Survival Sandbox with many features. Play survival your way: Hunting Zombies, Crafting recipes, Procedural cities, Fortifying Buildings, Player Traps, Base building with multiplayer survival!
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Nira
Single-player alternative to Dungeon Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dungeon Island.
Explore procedurally generated islands in this fast-paced, sandbox survival adventure filled with building, crafting, fighting, farming and quests. Build a base, hunt, cook, battle ogres, make friends with a mysterious Totem, ride an alpaca, fly a plane and do whatever you need to survive.
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Wonderia
Single-player alternative to Dungeon Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Dungeon Island.
Wonderia's an open-world, manga-art adventure just waiting to be explored. It's got sci-fi sim elements, deep dungeons, and you can even morph into alien form! Grab up to 7 friends to mine, craft, battle, and level—or farm and fish the day away, if that's more your tempo. There's so much to do!
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A Shawn Story
Single-player alternative to Dungeon Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dungeon Island.
A Shawn Story follows a morning in the life of Shawn, a 20-something office worker who is late for work, AGAIN! Enter the narrator, a sarcastic British man who tries to dictate Shawn's life!
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GTFOH
Single-player alternative to Dungeon Island — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dungeon Island.
Experience the purest form of roguelike platforming as you GTFOH! Avoid the rising acid as you gain extra jumps and increase your movement speed and jump height. Unlock characters and modes as you improve! Can you make it to the top in time?