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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Underlings
Single-player alternative to Home By The River — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Home By The River.
Become one of the "evil" creatures and try to survive a world where everything wants you dead, gather resources, craft them into powerful items, build a base to protect yourself from everlasting raids or challenge your bosses to be more than an underling.
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The Dream Within
Single-player alternative to Home By The River — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Home By The River.
A pixel-graphics open world survival craft RPG, where player is locked in a deep dream world, survive in this elusive world, forage, hunt, mine, and build up shelters. Find a way to escape.
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Dinkum
Single-player alternative to Home By The River — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Home By The River.
Dinkum is a survival life simulation game set on an island inspired by the rugged Australian outback. Farm, hunt, mine, fish, and forage to gather resources, expand your town, and discover what makes Dinkum so special—either solo or with friends.
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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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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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Mirthwood
Single-player alternative to Home By The River — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and RPG with Home By The River.
Embark on an enchanting journey and brave ferocious creatures in an immersive medieval fantasy world. Will you settle a new homestead to live a life of farming and trade, or pick up the sword and take up the adventurers' path?
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Survive on Raft
Single-player alternative to Home By The River — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Home By The River.
Survive on Raft is a Survival Sandbox Simulator on the Raft in the middle of the ocean! Fight with shark, build base, craft, loot islands, farm and survive. Play solo or with friends.
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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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Zero Distance
Single-player alternative to Home By The River — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Home By The River.
Take the role of an Arabian freedom fighter defending against the hordes of Zion who have enslaved the super powers of the world! Seamlessly play top down or FPS. Defeat all 20 waves to win! Upgrade your weapons and abilities between waves to become powerful.