Single-player games like friends world
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to friends world, 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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7 Days to Die
Single-player alternative to friends world — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with friends world.
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
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ARK: Survival Ascended
Single-player alternative to friends world — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with friends world.
ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!
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Colony Survival
Single-player alternative to friends world — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with friends world.
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
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Soulmask
Single-player alternative to friends world — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with friends world.
Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.
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V Rising
Single-player alternative to friends world — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with friends world.
Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.
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Journey Of Life
Single-player alternative to friends world — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with friends world.
You have experienced the sudden loss of your wealth, which has compelled you to abandon your previous life and begin anew. By venturing into the game world, you can construct settlements and forge alliances with other players, ensuring that you will always have exciting challenges to undertake.
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Creativerse
Single-player alternative to friends world — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with friends world.
A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.
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CryoFall
Single-player alternative to friends world — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with friends world.
CryoFall is a sci-fi colony simulation survival game set on a forgotten planet in a distant future. Master technology, agriculture, trading, industry, cybernetics, exploration, and more!