Single-player games like Wildmender
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Wildmender, 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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Core Keeper
Single-player alternative to Wildmender — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wildmender.
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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Card Survival: Fantasy Forest
Single-player alternative to Wildmender — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wildmender.
Card Survival: Fantasy Forest is a card-based deep survival simulator and the next installment in the Card Survival Series. Carve yourself a home in a primordial forest that has a will of its own. A day-to-day life simulator in a world where nature reigns with mystery, beauty and sometimes cruelty.
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My Time at Sandrock
Single-player alternative to Wildmender — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wildmender.
Travel to the desert community of Sandrock and take on the role of a fledgling Builder. Use your trusty toolset to gather resources, construct machines, and turn your run-down workshop into a well-oiled production facility to save the town from the jaws of economic ruin!
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Forager
Single-player alternative to Wildmender — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wildmender.
The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!
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Grow: Song of the Evertree
Single-player alternative to Wildmender — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Wildmender.
Grow your own worlds and nurture a deep natural connection with everything they hold. See your actions change the world for better! Bring the Evertree back to life in this breathtaking world-crafting sandbox, with life management and adventure elements.
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Smalland: Survive the Wilds
Single-player alternative to Wildmender — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wildmender.
Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.
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Stardew Valley
Single-player alternative to Wildmender — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Wildmender.
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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Valheim
Single-player alternative to Wildmender — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wildmender.
A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
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Embr
Single-player alternative to Wildmender — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wildmender.
Fight fires for fun and profit in this unpredictable and frantic multiplayer game. Team up with friends, take on daily challenges and climb to the top of the corporate firefighting ladder. More than one way to become a hero!
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Flight of the Icarus
Single-player alternative to Wildmender — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Wildmender.
Flight of the Icarus is a game where you play as a privateer who owns an airship that helps ferry goods from town to town in a post-apocalyptic world where the skies are dominated by pirates and danger. Shoot down enemy aeroplanes with a variety of deadly weaponry. Keep the ship from falling out the sky.
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CreaVures
Single-player alternative to Wildmender — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Wildmender.
Take control of five cute, mystical creatures of miniature proportions called CreaVures. CreaVures always travel in pairs, and they must use their special abilities to help each other solve interesting platforming puzzles.
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Hamsterdam
Single-player alternative to Wildmender — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Wildmender.
An arcade brawler where you become the Hamster-fu master to save the town of Hamsterdam. Will you be the hero your town needs? Will you defeat the whisker twister in chief, the vile Chinchilla Marlo? You bet your bushy tail!