Single-player games like Lost Scavenger
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Lost Scavenger, 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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Ruinlander
Single-player alternative to Lost Scavenger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost Scavenger.
Instead of saving the world, worry about what to eat and how not to get a dose of radiation or not to freeze in changing conditions. Travel, search abandoned cities for supplies, make contacts with different factions or try to join one of them. Decide for yourself how exactly to survive.
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Dictapoint — Underground Pharma Simulator
Single-player alternative to Lost Scavenger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost Scavenger.
They were waiting for a fix — they got you instead. Craft the cure, scale up production, run sales and wage war on the gangs choking this rotting town. Choose: stay honest and die broke, or brew a cure so good they'll crawl to you on their knees.
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BURNED HORIZONS
Single-player alternative to Lost Scavenger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost Scavenger.
A gritty, turn-based tactical sandbox set in 2002. No XP grind. No class rails. No buy-your-way skill trees. // 'They said it wasn't our war. So we made it ours.'
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NEO Scavenger
Single-player alternative to Lost Scavenger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost Scavenger.
NEO Scavenger is a game where you must survive in the wasteland long enough to figure out who you are. Each turn, you must decide where to go, how to scavenge for supplies, and how to deal with anything and anyone you encounter.
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Pawsecuted
Single-player alternative to Lost Scavenger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Lost Scavenger.
A brutal, slightly absurd tactical survival RPG. Play a rabbit escaping a koala-run convict camp in a procedurally generated, post-human apocalyptic world. Battle emus and hire kangaroo mercenaries. Scavenge supplies, gather and trade materials, recruit followers and rebuild society.
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Dust to the End
Single-player alternative to Lost Scavenger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost Scavenger.
Nuclear war ended human civilization, but it could never uproot the evil within our hearts. Fight, trade, negotiate, raid– do whatever it takes to survive in the wasteland. You will have to be as clever as ruthless to thrive in a broken world, torn by war, cruelty, hunger and slavery.
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Project Of Cooling The Earth
Single-player alternative to Lost Scavenger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost Scavenger.
Players must survive in the ruins of the human world and face various survival challenges and dangers. Players need to search for resources in abandoned cities and wilderness, including food, water sources, construction materials, etc., to maintain survival and build safe shelters.
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Plague Lords: Witch Hunt
Single-player alternative to Lost Scavenger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost Scavenger.
What seemed like an easy coin leads a small detachment of mercenaries and their employer to a barony lost in the woods, afflicted by a strange disease. The prologue to Plague Lords will introduce you to the basics of the game and take control of a small squad of trained soldiers.
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Ostranauts
Single-player alternative to Lost Scavenger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Lost Scavenger.
Navigate your scrappy ship through the boneyard in search of valuable parts in abandoned vessels. Use salvage to upgrade your ship, or sell it for cash to pay down your mounting debt, or restock fuel, air, or food. Fly and role-play aboard your dream spaceship in this hardcore noir space-sim.