Single-player games like Home By The River
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Home By The River, 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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Stardew Valley
Single-player alternative to Home By The River — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Home By The River.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
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Forager
Single-player alternative to Home By The River — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Home By The River.
The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!
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Kynseed
Single-player alternative to Home By The River — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Home By The River.
Embark on a lifetime of adventure in a beautiful world of creativity and intrigue. Raise a family, customise your farm, run a business, craft items, and battle some marvellously malevolent monsters.
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Wildmender
Single-player alternative to Home By The River — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Home By The River.
A desert gardening survival game. Start from a tiny spring and cultivate a blooming garden. Explore a vast world amid the sands and uncover its mysteries. Can you defend against the relentless forces of nature and mysterious wraith corruption, to bring life to a dying world?
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Core Keeper
Single-player alternative to Home By The River — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Home By The River.
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
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My Time at Portia
Single-player alternative to Home By The River — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Home By The River.
Start a new life in the enchanting town of Portia! Restore your Pa's neglected workshop to its former glory by fulfilling commissions, growing crops, raising animals, and befriending the quirky inhabitants of this charming post-apocalyptic land!
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Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to Home By The River — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Home By The River.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
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Spirit of the Island
Single-player alternative to Home By The River — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Home By The River.
A beautiful Life Sim Sandbox RPG with Cross-Platform Online COOP set on a tropical Archipelago. Build your farm, grow crops and animals, craft various items, cook dishes, gather resources, build shops and museum to attract visitors, and turn a desolate Island into a prosperous tourist destination!
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Choo Choo Survivor
Single-player alternative to Home By The River — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Home By The River.
Drive your train to safety while shooting down endless hordes of zombies blocking your way. Upgrade your weapons and abilities and become absurdly powerful!
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Gamer To Game Developer Series 1: More Than a Gamer
Single-player alternative to Home By The River — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Welcome to the new GTGD S1, a Unity 2017 multiplayer tutorial for game developers. This training course is of intermediate difficulty so you should first be familiar with the basics of coding in Unity. This tutorial will teach you the key elements of the Unity 2017 multiplayer system.
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Guild Commander
Single-player alternative to Home By The River — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Home By The River.
In Guild Commander you manage your guild to victory! Deploy your guild members and save your world from the Necro Lord!
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Weekend Drive
Single-player alternative to Home By The River — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Home By The River.
Giants, zombies, aliens, dinosaurs, a fully destructible city with fun vehicles (including helicopter!) and weapons at your disposable, yes Weekend Drive is way ahead of the curve! Get set for a fun unique full on action first person shooter experience!
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Model City
Single-player alternative to Home By The River — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Home By The River.
Welcome to Model City, a calm relaxing small game where you can't lose or do anything wrong.
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Peacequarium
Single-player alternative to Home By The River — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Home By The River.
An aquarium sim you can keep anywhere on your screen while you do other things. Buy endless upgrades, apply trait modifiers, and complete your collection of rare, epic and legendary fish! Buy today or give a gift to someone!