Single-player games like Palworld
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Palworld, 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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Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to Palworld — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Palworld.
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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ARK: Survival Evolved
Single-player alternative to Palworld — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Palworld.
Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!
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Valheim
Single-player alternative to Palworld — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Palworld.
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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FortressCraft Evolved!
Single-player alternative to Palworld — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Palworld.
FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.
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Voidtrain
Single-player alternative to Palworld — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Palworld.
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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TerraTech Worlds
Single-player alternative to Palworld — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Palworld.
TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment
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Eden Crafters
Single-player alternative to Palworld — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Palworld.
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
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DeadPoly
Single-player alternative to Palworld — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Palworld.
DeadPoly is a polygon arcade zombie survival looter shooter with base building, crafting, scavenging, leveling, questing, and more, but your only goal is survival, everything else is optional.
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Terraria
Single-player alternative to Palworld — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Palworld.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
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ELDEN RING
Single-player alternative to Palworld — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Palworld.
THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED FANTASY ACTION RPG. Rise, Tarnished, and be guided by grace to brandish the power of the Elden Ring and become an Elden Lord in the Lands Between.
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Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
Single-player alternative to Palworld — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Palworld.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
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Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection
Single-player alternative to Palworld — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Palworld.
The third entry in the Monster Hunter Stories RPG series is here! Twin Rathalos, born in a twist of fate. Monster Hunter Stories is an RPG series set in the Monster Hunter world, where you can become a Rider, raising and bonding with your favorite monsters.
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The Sims™ 4
Single-player alternative to Palworld — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Palworld.
Play with life and discover the possibilities. Unleash your imagination and create a world of Sims that’s wholly unique. Explore and customize every detail from Sims to homes–and much more.
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No Man's Sky
Single-player alternative to Palworld — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Palworld.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
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Hades
Single-player alternative to Palworld — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Palworld.
Defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash out of the Underworld in this rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre.
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Craftopia
Single-player alternative to Palworld — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Palworld.
Craftopia is the brand new multiplayer survival action game made in Japan. We combined many features we find enjoyable, such as hunting, farming, hack-and-slash, building, automation to develop this game.
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Overdungeon
Single-player alternative to Palworld — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Palworld.
A completely new style real-time card battle "Overdungeon" Overdungeon combines rogue-like, tower defense and card games. More than 100 cards are Attack, Animal, Building, Spell, Trap, etc..Build your creative and crazy deck!