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Single-player games like Cowboy Life Simulator: Prologue

Below are 13 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 — Steam game cover

    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.

    2026ActionIndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Russian Village Simulator on Mars — Steam game cover

    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.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure15.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Wildstrive — Steam game cover

    Wildstrive

    Single-player alternative to Cowboy Life Simulator: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cowboy Life Simulator: Prologue.

    Wildstrive - is an open-world first-person survival game. Craft tools, build a camp, harvest crops, explore the land, tame and fight wild animals. Challenge nature and solve the mystery of the lost island!

    2023ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Russian Village Simulator 2 — Steam game cover

    Russian Village Simulator 2

    Single-player alternative to Cowboy Life Simulator: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cowboy Life Simulator: Prologue.

    This is a simulation of life in the Russian village, where the player will have to deal with the vegetable garden, build a house and various buildings, collect mushrooms and berries, plant your garden, breed farming, hunting and fishing, make kvass, hook up with a village girl and much, much more.

    2025ActionStrategyIndie15.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Cowboy Life Simulator — Steam game cover

    Cowboy Life Simulator

    Single-player alternative to Cowboy Life Simulator: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Cowboy Life Simulator: Prologue.

    “Cowboy Life Simulator” is an immersive and relaxing ranching sim where you step into the boots of a failed businessman starting fresh on the frontier. Buy your first goat, meet the locals, explore vibrant lands, and build your dream ranch in a world full of stories and adventure!

    2025ActionAdventureSimulation18.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Kingdom Craft — Steam game cover

    Kingdom Craft

    Single-player alternative to Cowboy Life Simulator: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cowboy Life Simulator: Prologue.

    Kingdom Craft is a survival game in a world of floating islands with unique gravity. Craft items by combining different materials, explore, build, and progress to reach the ancient portal and return home.

    IndieAdventureSimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Island Beekeeper — Steam game cover

    Island Beekeeper

    Single-player alternative to Cowboy Life Simulator: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cowboy Life Simulator: Prologue.

    Build your apiary on islands above the clouds, travel on your medocycle, crossbreed bees with unique traits and create a cozy home in the sky. Grow plants, explore islands and send healing honey down to Earth, where people still hope for your help.

    2026IndieAdventureSimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Primal Survival Wars — Steam game cover

    Primal Survival Wars

    Single-player alternative to Cowboy Life Simulator: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Cowboy Life Simulator: Prologue.

    Build your own Settlement of Ancient People. Survive, Hunt, Gather, Craft Tools, Fight, Research new technologies and face the challenges that the environment throws at you.

    ActionIndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Starbound — Steam game cover

    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...

    2016ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Scrapnaut — Steam game cover

    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!

    2021Indie13.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Red Dead Redemption — Steam game cover

    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.

    2024Action24.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    House Flipper — Steam game cover

    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!

    2018IndieSimulation24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Pirate Commander — Steam game cover

    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.

    ActionStrategyAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →