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Single-player games like Farworld Pioneers

Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Farworld Pioneers, 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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    CryoFall — Steam game cover

    CryoFall

    Single-player alternative to Farworld Pioneers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Farworld Pioneers.

    CryoFall is a sci-fi colony simulation survival game set on a forgotten planet in a distant future. Master technology, agriculture, trading, industry, cybernetics, exploration, and more!

    2021ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Soulmask — Steam game cover

    Soulmask

    Single-player alternative to Farworld Pioneers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Farworld Pioneers.

    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.

    2026IndieAdventureSimulation29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Rising World — Steam game cover

    Rising World

    Single-player alternative to Farworld Pioneers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Farworld Pioneers.

    Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.

    2014ActionIndieAdventure11.24 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Night of the Dead — Steam game cover

    Night of the Dead

    Single-player alternative to Farworld Pioneers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Farworld Pioneers.

    '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!

    2024ActionIndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Osiris: New Dawn — Steam game cover

    Osiris: New Dawn

    Single-player alternative to Farworld Pioneers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Farworld Pioneers.

    Osiris: New Dawn is an unforgiving near future space survival game with a cinematic feel and elements of horror. Play as a Mission Specialist in single or multiplayer to build your planetary base, pilotable vehicles, and controllable drones as you explore a dangerous solar system far from Earth.

    2023ActionIndieAdventureDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Colony Survival — Steam game cover

    Colony Survival

    Single-player alternative to Farworld Pioneers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Farworld Pioneers.

    Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!

    2017ActionStrategyIndie24.95 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Castle Story — Steam game cover

    Castle Story

    Single-player alternative to Farworld Pioneers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Farworld Pioneers.

    Castle Story is a creative voxel-based strategy game in which you can build castles one brick at a time using an army of little creatures called Bricktrons. Design and build your own castles, expand your territory in a vast landscape and defend your Bricktrons against onslaughts of hostile creatures.

    2017StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Starbound — Steam game cover

    Starbound

    Single-player alternative to Farworld Pioneers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Farworld Pioneers.

    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...

    2016ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Terraria — Steam game cover

    Terraria

    Single-player alternative to Farworld Pioneers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Farworld Pioneers.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    RimWorld — Steam game cover

    RimWorld

    Single-player alternative to Farworld Pioneers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Farworld Pioneers.

    A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation34.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    No Man's Sky — Steam game cover

    No Man's Sky

    Single-player alternative to Farworld Pioneers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Farworld Pioneers.

    No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.

    2016ActionAdventure59.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Necesse — Steam game cover

    Necesse

    Single-player alternative to Farworld Pioneers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Farworld Pioneers.

    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!

    2025ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →