Single-player games like Wildmender
Below are 13 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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Starseed
Single-player alternative to Wildmender — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wildmender.
Starseed is an immersive farming sim that blends tranquility and subtle dark undertones in an atmosphere of isolation. Millions of miles from civilization, you find yourself alone on distant worlds, working without the distraction of combat. It’s a peaceful experience about saving our home world.
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Russian Village Simulator on Mars
Single-player alternative to Wildmender — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wildmender.
Develop a village colony on Mars, using various resources and bringing the unique flavor of Russian culture to the distant space.
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Dinkum
Single-player alternative to Wildmender — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wildmender.
Dinkum is a survival life simulation game set on an island inspired by the rugged Australian outback. Farm, hunt, mine, fish, and forage to gather resources, expand your town, and discover what makes Dinkum so special—either solo or with friends.
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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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No Place Like Home
Single-player alternative to Wildmender — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wildmender.
Humanity Trashed the Earth and left for Mars. Only few remained. EXPLORE the world. Clean the environment, CRAFT with recycled resources. Domesticate animals. Rebuild your village. Restore environment and run your own post-apo FARM as there is No Place Like Home!
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Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to Wildmender — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wildmender.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
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Force of Nature
Single-player alternative to Wildmender — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wildmender.
Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres
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CryoFall
Single-player alternative to Wildmender — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wildmender.
CryoFall is a sci-fi colony simulation survival game set on a forgotten planet in a distant future. Master technology, agriculture, trading, industry, cybernetics, exploration, and more!
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Valheim
Single-player alternative to Wildmender — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wildmender.
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory 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!