Single-player games like Outbreak Island: Pendulum
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Outbreak Island: Pendulum, 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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Outbreak Island
Single-player alternative to Outbreak Island: Pendulum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Outbreak Island: Pendulum.
Survive on a remote Island, where a mysterious Outbreak awakens bloodthirsty monsters at night. Craft, build and defend your base in the brutal world of Outbreak Island, an open-world sandbox survival horror game.
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Withstand: Survival
Single-player alternative to Outbreak Island: Pendulum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Outbreak Island: Pendulum.
Play as journalist who arrived to unknown island to reveal all the mysteries and find information about secret government experiments. Explore beautiful and dangerous open world. Try to survive, fight enemies, craft new objects and complete quests to reveal what happened.
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No One Survived
Single-player alternative to Outbreak Island: Pendulum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Outbreak Island: Pendulum.
This is a multiplayer cooperative open world construction survival sandbox game, where you and your friends must find supplies and build shelters in this world. You have to keep an eye on your character's needs state at all times, a bad state is likely to lead to death.
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Mist Survival
Single-player alternative to Outbreak Island: Pendulum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Outbreak Island: Pendulum.
MIST SURVIVAL is a Single-player, survival stealth sandbox game Players will experience the Apocalypse stimulation in the form of virus pandemic, the players have to deal with it to survive through the difficulties such as finding shelter and food, threats from the environment and climate: wild animals, bandits, infected, and dense mist t
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Far Lands
Single-player alternative to Outbreak Island: Pendulum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Outbreak Island: Pendulum.
Far Lands is an open-world survival game. Fight mercenaries, steal their loot and vehicles. Build and defend your base from zombies. Gather resources, craft better gear and loot different points of interest. Want to play with friends? Join them on Co-op!
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Night of the Dead
Single-player alternative to Outbreak Island: Pendulum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Outbreak Island: Pendulum.
'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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The Infected
Single-player alternative to Outbreak Island: Pendulum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Simulation with Outbreak Island: Pendulum.
The Infected is a sandbox, first-person, open-world survival game. Build bases, craft, farm, hunt, and survive changing seasons. Choose whether to face the hybrid “Vambies” or turn them off for a pure survival experience.
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The Forest
Single-player alternative to Outbreak Island: Pendulum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Outbreak Island: Pendulum.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
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Watch Your Ride - Bicycle Game
Single-player alternative to Outbreak Island: Pendulum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Outbreak Island: Pendulum.
A cycling game with dozens of campaign levels and endless procedurally generated mode. Play solo or get together with up to 4 friends.