Single-player games like Aloft
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Aloft, 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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Raft
Single-player alternative to Aloft — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aloft.
Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!
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Forever Skies
Single-player alternative to Aloft — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aloft.
A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.
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Dinkum
Single-player alternative to Aloft — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aloft.
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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Solarpunk™
Single-player alternative to Aloft — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aloft.
Solarpunk is a survival game in a technically advanced world of floating islands. Alone or together with your friends, you can construct buildings, grow food, craft gadgets and hop on your airship to explore distant islands in the sky.
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Voidtrain
Single-player alternative to Aloft — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aloft.
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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Core Keeper
Single-player alternative to Aloft — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aloft.
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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Smalland: Survive the Wilds
Single-player alternative to Aloft — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aloft.
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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Grounded
Single-player alternative to Aloft — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Aloft.
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
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Subnautica
Single-player alternative to Aloft — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aloft.
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
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Lost Skies
Single-player alternative to Aloft — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Aloft.
Chart a course in a breathtaking, but fractured world. Explore ancient ruins, master advanced technology, and craft your very own skyship to brave nature’s fury and colossal threats in Lost Skies. Team up with friends or go it alone in this awe-inspiring cooperative survival adventure.
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Outer Wilds
Single-player alternative to Aloft — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Aloft.
Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.
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DREDGE
Single-player alternative to Aloft — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Aloft.
DREDGE is a single-player fishing adventure with a sinister undercurrent. Sell your catch, upgrade your boat, and dredge the depths for long-buried secrets. Explore a mysterious archipelago and discover why some things are best left forgotten.
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No Man's Sky
Single-player alternative to Aloft — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Aloft.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
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ASTRONEER
Single-player alternative to Aloft — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aloft.
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.
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Enshrouded
Single-player alternative to Aloft — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aloft.
Enshrouded is a solo and co-op survival action RPG where your freedom and creativity come first. Conquer the Shroud, a corrupting fog devouring the kingdom of Embervale: explore a handcrafted world full of secrets, forge your hero your way, and build anything, anywhere in a fully terraformable land.
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Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to Aloft — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aloft.
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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Sacrifice Your Friends
Single-player alternative to Aloft — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aloft.
Succumb to madness and come Sacrifice Your Friends! Dangerous arenas, eldritch weapons, lovecraftian creatures, and a lot of fun await you.