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
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!
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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...
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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!