Single-player games like Survival Machine
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Survival Machine, 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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Voidtrain
Single-player alternative to Survival Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Survival Machine.
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
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Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to Survival Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Survival Machine.
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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Abiotic Factor
Single-player alternative to Survival Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Survival Machine.
Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.
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Soulmask
Single-player alternative to Survival Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Survival Machine.
Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.
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Volcanoids
Single-player alternative to Survival Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Survival Machine.
A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.
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Night of the Dead
Single-player alternative to Survival Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Survival Machine.
'Night of the Dead' is an open-world game that combines elements of exploration, tower defense, survival, and crafting. Traverse a world dominated by zombies while collecting various resources and powerful equipment. Build a fortress to survive the hordes of zombies that swarm every night!
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Scrap Mechanic
Single-player alternative to Survival Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Survival Machine.
Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!
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Sunkenland
Single-player alternative to Survival Machine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Survival Machine.
Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?