Single-player games like Lost Skies
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Lost Skies, 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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The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™
Single-player alternative to Lost Skies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Lost Skies.
A survival crafting adventure set in the Fourth Age of Middle-earth. Lead the Dwarves to reclaim Moria - mine, build, and battle through procedurally generated depths alone or with up to 8 players in co-op. It is time to return to Moria!
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Smalland: Survive the Wilds
Single-player alternative to Lost Skies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Lost Skies.
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 Lost Skies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Lost Skies.
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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Valheim
Single-player alternative to Lost Skies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Lost Skies.
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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Sunkenland
Single-player alternative to Lost Skies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Lost Skies.
Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?
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Green Hell
Single-player alternative to Lost Skies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Lost Skies.
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
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The Survivalists
Single-player alternative to Lost Skies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Lost Skies.
A living world full of surprises, secrets and danger awaits in The Survivalists, an adventure-filled survival sandbox set in The Escapists universe. Explore, build, craft and even train monkeys with up to three friends in a desperate bid to survive. Have you got what it takes to be a Survivalist?
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Voidtrain
Single-player alternative to Lost Skies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Lost Skies.
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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Scrap Mechanic
Single-player alternative to Lost Skies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Lost Skies.
Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!
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Palworld
Single-player alternative to Lost Skies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Lost Skies.
Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
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Surgeon Simulator
Single-player alternative to Lost Skies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Lost Skies.
Surgeon Simulator is an over-the-top operation sim, stitching together pitch-black humour with life-saving surgery. Become Dr. Burke, a would-be surgeon with a less than conventional toolkit, as he performs procedures on patients including the Heavy from TF2! ...is that a hammer?
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I Am Bread
Single-player alternative to Lost Skies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Lost Skies.
You are bread. Your mission, become toast! Take on all hazards to deliciousness as you head on an epic adventure in one of the the toughest games ever baked. All of the game modes (including Bagel Race) are now unlocked so there's sure to be something to suit everyone's taste!
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I Am Fish
Single-player alternative to Lost Skies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Lost Skies.
I Am Fish is a charming, physics-based adventure starring four intrepid fish friends, forcibly separated from their home in a pet shop fish tank. Swim, fly, roll and chomp your way to the open ocean in a bid for freedom and to re-unite once again.
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Surgeon Simulator 2
Single-player alternative to Lost Skies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Lost Skies.
It’s time to ‘scrub in’ in this physics-based surgery sim. Unearth the mysteries of the Bossa Labs Medical Facility and save Bob’s life.
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Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality
Single-player alternative to Lost Skies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Lost Skies.
Surgeon Simulator is bringing the ER to VR! The most critically acclaimed and infamous surgery simulation game as you have never seen it before! Featuring all of the surgeries and twisted humour of the original favourite plus a few new surprises...
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Deep Dungeons of Doom
Single-player alternative to Lost Skies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Lost Skies.
This game is only for the brave. Dungeons await, each one deeper, each one more perilous and each one more challenging than the last.
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Worlds Adrift Island Creator
Single-player alternative to Lost Skies — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Worlds Adrift is a Community-Crafted MMO: each and every island has been crafted by our playerbase. With the free Island Creator tool, this is your chance to create your own adventure for the community to experience. A crumbling ruin, or a teeming jungle, help expand the edges of Foundation ever further!