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Single-player games like Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts

Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts, 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 Forest — Steam game cover

    The Forest

    Single-player alternative to Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts.

    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.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Satisfactory — Steam game cover

    Satisfactory

    Single-player alternative to Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts.

    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!

    2024StrategyIndieAdventure39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Dawn of Defiance — Steam game cover

    Dawn of Defiance

    Single-player alternative to Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts.

    You are the Defier, a Spartan beginning your afterlife on the Crossroads. In this Greek myth-inspired survival craft, ascend from weak soldier to god-like anti-hero. Build impressive Greek structures, craft legendary gear, and break the seals of the Underworld with up to 3 friends.

    2024ActionAdventureEarly Access19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Nested Lands — Steam game cover

    Nested Lands

    Single-player alternative to Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts.

    Nested Lands is a ruthless medieval RPG game featuring in-depth village building, large-scale social management and combats. Gather survivors, build a settlement, craft, master your skills, survive, and endure alone or in online co-op.

    2026ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Infected — Steam game cover

    The Infected

    Single-player alternative to Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts.

    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.

    2020ActionIndieSimulation15.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Conan Exiles — Steam game cover

    Conan Exiles

    Single-player alternative to Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts.

    An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.

    2018ActionStrategyAdventure39.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Occupy Mars: The Game — Steam game cover

    Occupy Mars: The Game

    Single-player alternative to Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts.

    Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.

    2026IndieAdventureSimulation29.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    KeepUp Survival — Steam game cover

    KeepUp Survival

    Single-player alternative to Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts.

    KeepUp Survival is an open base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and unfold your own story on a mysterious island.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Mist Survival — Steam game cover

    Mist Survival

    Single-player alternative to Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts.

    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

    2018ActionIndieAdventure10.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl — Steam game cover

    S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl

    Single-player alternative to Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts.

    S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl tells a story about survival in the Zone – a very dangerous place, where you fear not only the radiation, anomalies and deadly creatures, but other S.T.A.L.K.E.R.s, who have their own goals and wishes.

    2007ActionRPG19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    H.E.N.T.A.L.K.E.R. — Steam game cover

    H.E.N.T.A.L.K.E.R.

    Single-player alternative to Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts.

    Forget about the rules, there are none here. Just you, your weapon and the endless, ominous wastelands waiting for you to plunge into them. So, are you ready to become a predator among predators? Then welcome to H.E.N.T.A.L.K.E.R.. It will hurt, but damn it will be fun!

    2024ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →