Single-player games like Gone Upstate
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Gone Upstate, 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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beta decay
Single-player alternative to Gone Upstate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gone Upstate.
beta decay is a dark, dystopian RPG where you can build spaceships, join factions, and fight for territory in a newly discovered star system. Become an engineer repairing starships, a mech pilot commanding war machines, to a syndicate leader, executing raids deep within a labyrinthic neon city.
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Medusa Frontier
Single-player alternative to Gone Upstate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gone Upstate.
Medusa Frontier is a budget sci-fi survival game being developed with OpenGL & C++. Gameplay is currently limited to resource gathering and base building on a 1k terrain map.
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After The War
Single-player alternative to Gone Upstate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gone Upstate.
You are one of the survivors with your family in a city destroyed After The War. Your goal is to keep yourself and your family alive and escape from this city.
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Escape The Pacific
Single-player alternative to Gone Upstate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gone Upstate.
Raw, real survival in the Pacific. Build a modular floating base. Master realistic sailing mechanics. Face challenging Pacific-like weather & seasons. Hunt, craft, build & navigate using Sun Dial, Sextant & Triangulation. Explore an endless island cluster-based world. Simulate real life scenarios!
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Saleblazers
Single-player alternative to Gone Upstate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gone Upstate.
Fight. Sell. Survive. Live off the land, build your perfect shop, and defend against nightly horrors in this open world survival shop simulator for 1-8 players.
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Northern Lights
Single-player alternative to Gone Upstate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Gone Upstate.
Northern Lights is an open world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the arctic tundra. Clinging to life, you must use real-life survival techniques to gather resources, craft, and hunt while tending to your health and sanity. Can you survive your way out of the mysterious island?
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The Gold River Project
Single-player alternative to Gone Upstate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gone Upstate.
The Gold River Project™ is a camping trip gone wrong in the Pacific Northwest. Explore, craft, build, and survive in this open-world experiment that traps you and up to 4 friends in this single player or co-op survival adventure game.
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Crushed
Single-player alternative to Gone Upstate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Gone Upstate.
Crushed — is an Singleplayer and Multiplayer First-Person Survival Sandbox in an Open World! Challenge the wild and be ready to survive in harsh conditions. Explore the world, get resources, cook food, build a house, farm, hunt, and enjoy nature.