Single-player games like Cowboy Life Simulator: Prologue
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Cowboy Life Simulator: Prologue, 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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Westlanders
Single-player alternative to Cowboy Life Simulator: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cowboy Life Simulator: Prologue.
Forge your legacy in the Westlands. Survive and thrive in a Wild West open world. Alone or with friends, explore, fight, and build from your customizable wagon. Expand into bustling settlements, recruit allies, and forge a network to tame the wilderness and build your legacy.
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The Blackwood
Single-player alternative to Cowboy Life Simulator: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cowboy Life Simulator: Prologue.
After a devastating accident, you are stranded in a breathtaking wilderness. Survive by gathering resources, crafting tools, building bases, and looting. Explore a dangerous open world, face threats, and uncover the mysteries of The Blackwood.
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Mystic Tavern
Single-player alternative to Cowboy Life Simulator: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cowboy Life Simulator: Prologue.
Mystic Tavern - co-op simulator tavern and farm with a mystical twist. Build your homestead, explore multiple map regions, harvest and mine resources, cook dishes and brew potions. Customize your character, bond with charming NPCs, and face subtle horror after sundown as you uncover hidden truths.
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Russian Village Simulator on Mars
Single-player alternative to Cowboy Life Simulator: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cowboy Life Simulator: Prologue.
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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ONE (1) WORLD
Single-player alternative to Cowboy Life Simulator: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cowboy Life Simulator: Prologue.
Build a home on a strange audited island in this top-down pixel sandbox RPG. Mine, farm, fish, craft, fight, sail, and chart routes from road to rocket—then survive the Bureau’s stamps, storms, bosses, and very personal paperwork.
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Groundwork
Single-player alternative to Cowboy Life Simulator: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cowboy Life Simulator: Prologue.
You are a robot preparing a small round planet, sent by humans looking for a new home. Scan plants and minerals, mine and gather, build machines and power, grow a garden, and wake the thirteen robots left behind by earlier landings. Then build them a town. No combat, no timer, no game over.
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The Old Forge
Single-player alternative to Cowboy Life Simulator: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cowboy Life Simulator: Prologue.
Explore a open world inspired by 1990s Poland. Scavenge, build, craft and dig your way through forests, villages and industrial ruins surviving the zombies, harsh weather and the constant fight for food, warmth and safety.
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Wildreach
Single-player alternative to Cowboy Life Simulator: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cowboy Life Simulator: Prologue.
A pure-sandbox, living-world survival-builder. Explore a vast biodome where elephants graze beside wolves, hunt and cook, farm your homestead, and study ancient ruins to unlock new ways to build. No bosses, no win condition — the boss is your imagination.
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Starbound
Single-player alternative to Cowboy Life Simulator: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cowboy Life Simulator: Prologue.
You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...
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Scrapnaut
Single-player alternative to Cowboy Life Simulator: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Cowboy Life Simulator: Prologue.
Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!
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Red Dead Redemption
Single-player alternative to Cowboy Life Simulator: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Cowboy Life Simulator: Prologue.
Experience the story of former outlaw John Marston as he tracks down the last remaining members of the notorious Van der Linde Gang in the PC debut of the critically acclaimed predecessor to Red Dead Redemption 2.
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House Flipper
Single-player alternative to Cowboy Life Simulator: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cowboy Life Simulator: Prologue.
House Flipper is a unique chance to become a one-man renovation crew. Buy, repair and remodel devastated houses. Give them a second life and sell them at a profit!
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Ninja Simulator
Single-player alternative to Cowboy Life Simulator: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Cowboy Life Simulator: Prologue.
Ninja Simulator is an action-adventure stealth game, which takes place in feudal Japan. You will play as a mercenary hired for missions of infiltration, espionage and elimination. Your actions will strenghten or overthrow rival clans and change the course of history.
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Pirate Commander
Single-player alternative to Cowboy Life Simulator: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Cowboy Life Simulator: Prologue.
Pirate Commander is survival/strategy game. You will have to take care of the crew and their physical and mental health, food, drinking water, medicine, weapons and ammunition. Find treasures, fight enemies from different factions and terrifying sea monsters.
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Vampire Clans
Single-player alternative to Cowboy Life Simulator: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Simulation with Cowboy Life Simulator: Prologue.
Create the most powerful Vampire Clan, to take over Paris streets and underground. Challenge other clans, beat them and enslave. Use spells, alchemy and human blood to grow up your power. Become the terror of all inhabitants or use quiet politics to achieve your goals.
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Pawnshop 90s
Single-player alternative to Cowboy Life Simulator: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Cowboy Life Simulator: Prologue.
Become the proud owner of a pawnshop in 1990's Poland. Upgrade your shop. Obtain and sell various items in (mostly) legal way. Meet interesting (and suspicious) people. Be a true businessman and don't let anything stop you from achieving success!