Single-player games like DREDGE
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to DREDGE, 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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Drowned Lake
Single-player alternative to DREDGE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with DREDGE.
When Bento, an amateur documentarian vanishes, three strangers are drawn to the Drowned Lake to find him. As the lake’s dark past comes to light, so do the secrets buried deep within them. Explore, survive, and investigate the dark waters in this fishing survival horror game.
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DREADMOOR
Single-player alternative to DREDGE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with DREDGE.
DREADMOOR is a dark first-person fishing adventure game set in a submerged world, rotting from a past catastrophe. Fish in murky waters, upgrade your boat, craft survival gear, and fight monstrous creatures that lurk under the water and on the land.
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Baitcore
Single-player alternative to DREDGE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with DREDGE.
BAITCORE is a survival fishing adventure game. Trapped inside a drifting container after a shipwreck, you are lost somewhere in the open ocean. By day, scavenge for supplies among the wreckage and fish to survive. When night falls, stay hidden—because something is lurking beneath the waves.
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Loop of Death
Single-player alternative to DREDGE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with DREDGE.
Explore a mysterious hospital in this first-person psychological survival horror game. Solve challenging puzzles, uncover hidden secrets, manage limited resources, and survive a relentless presence that never stops hunting you.
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SMS Returns
Single-player alternative to DREDGE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with DREDGE.
The 2012 viral phenomenon returns. A slender, faceless figure hunts you in your favourite maps rebuilt from the ground up, including the all-new Forest. Survive with friends in multiplayer, immerse yourself in VR, and build your own terrifying maps with the in-game editor. Will you survive?
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UMIGARI | ウミガリ
Single-player alternative to DREDGE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with DREDGE.
UMIGARI is a first-person harpoon fishing game set in the foggy waters off the coast of Japan. Hunt fish with your harpoon, sell your catch, buy fuel, and upgrade your gear. Alone at sea, the more you explore, the stranger the fish become.
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Below, Rusted Gods
Single-player alternative to DREDGE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with DREDGE.
You are the lifeline supporting an expedition into the unknown. Keep both yourself and your squad alive by interpreting instrument readings, explore the facilities, and uncover something ancient and eager to be born.
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CONSCRIPT: Director’s Cut
Single-player alternative to DREDGE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with DREDGE.
During the First World War, a lone French soldier must navigate twisted trenches, scavenge for limited supplies and solve complex puzzles—all whilst fighting for survival in the midst of mankind’s most brutal and horrifying conflict. CONSCRIPT is a new historical take on classic survival horror.
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Outer Wilds
Single-player alternative to DREDGE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with DREDGE.
Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.
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Subnautica
Single-player alternative to DREDGE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with DREDGE.
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
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The Witness
Single-player alternative to DREDGE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with DREDGE.
You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you.
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Darkest Dungeon®
Single-player alternative to DREDGE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with DREDGE.
Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?
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Stardew Valley
Single-player alternative to DREDGE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with DREDGE.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
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SUNLESS SEA
Single-player alternative to DREDGE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with DREDGE.
LOSE YOUR MIND. EAT YOUR CREW. DIE. Take the helm of your steamship and set sail for the unknown! Sunless Sea is a game of discovery, loneliness and frequent death, set in the award-winning Victorian Gothic universe of Fallen London.
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Slime Rancher
Single-player alternative to DREDGE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with DREDGE.
Slime Rancher is the tale of Beatrix LeBeau, a plucky, young rancher who sets out for a life a thousand light years away from Earth on the ‘Far, Far Range’ where she tries her hand at making a living wrangling slimes.
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Blue Prince
Single-player alternative to DREDGE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with DREDGE.
Welcome to Mt. Holly, where every dawn unveils a new mystery. Navigate through shifting corridors and ever-changing chambers in this genre-defying strategy puzzle adventure. But will your unpredictable path lead you to the rumored Room 46?