Single-player games like Wanderlost
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Wanderlost, 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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Pathless Woods: Prologue
Single-player alternative to Wanderlost — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wanderlost.
Pathless Woods: Prologue is the intro of Pathless Woods. You can play online with your friends and enjoy the first several days. This game features survival, exploration, construction, and farming. Build your dream home, defend yourself against marauders and more.
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Beyond the Map
Single-player alternative to Wanderlost — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Wanderlost.
Isometric survival ARPG set in a procedurally generated fantasy world. Build your base, gear up, and venture out, chasing stronger enemies and better loot.
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Ars Notoria
Single-player alternative to Wanderlost — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Wanderlost.
Ars Notoria is an open-world survival crafting game set in a rich fantasy world. Learn six distinct schools of magic, gather resources, build your base, expand your influence, and stand against the ever-shifting threat of the Enthralled. You are the one destined to change the kingdom.
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Core Keeper
Single-player alternative to Wanderlost — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Wanderlost.
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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Zombie Graveyard Simulator
Single-player alternative to Wanderlost — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Wanderlost.
Manage your Graveyard by day as you bury and cremate bodies, maintain graves, fulfill visitor requests, grow crops, run a shop and unlock upgrades. When night falls, face relentless zombie hordes as you build defenses to protect your work and fight to survive in Zombie Graveyard Simulator!
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Deadly Flare
Single-player alternative to Wanderlost — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Wanderlost.
A solar flare has struck and every living soul is turning into a rotting and aggressive ghoul.
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Night of the Dead
Single-player alternative to Wanderlost — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Wanderlost.
'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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Machine Mind
Single-player alternative to Wanderlost — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Wanderlost.
Machine Mind is an action game in a post-apocalyptic setting with elements of survival and RTS. You will fight, craft modules, build your transport, develop and protect your base. You can control other vehicles to automate operations. Discover all the secrets of the destroyed world!