Single-player games like Vexlands
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Vexlands, 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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Spiritura
Single-player alternative to Vexlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Vexlands.
Spiritura is an atmospheric open-world survival crafting game with light RPG elements, exploration, and base building. Forge your own path through a mysterious, procedurally generated land, utilizing diverse combat skills to survive the threats of the wild as you uncover the secrets of the world.
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The Hunter's Path
Single-player alternative to Vexlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Vexlands.
A top down single player PVE survival game. Survive, hunt and thrive in The Hunter's Path. Navigate through the terrain, stalk your prey, and craft your needed supplies and base materials.
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Planeturem
Single-player alternative to Vexlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vexlands.
Explore a procedurally generated planet filled with resources to harvest - or discover structures containing potentially rare items. Build your base to protect yourself and fight off evil, collecting materials to build new gear. Build a rocket and explore new planets!
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ONE (1) WORLD
Single-player alternative to Vexlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vexlands.
Build a home on a strange audited island in this top-down pixel sandbox RPG. Mine, farm, fish, craft, fight, sail, and chart routes from road to rocket—then survive the Bureau’s stamps, storms, bosses, and very personal paperwork.
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Mr. Nomad
Single-player alternative to Vexlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vexlands.
Mr. Nomad is a survival base-building, tower defense game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Set a fortified base around your camper, craft, endure brutal zombie raids, hide what is precious to you in underground bunker and embark on dangerous missions in search of resources.
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MINERALS: Deep Core Mining
Single-player alternative to Vexlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vexlands.
Mine the vast underground and collect ores and gemstones—collect! collect! collect like crazy! “MINERALS: Deep Core Mining” is an over-the-top mining game with roguelite elements. Use the resources you gather to upgrade your abilities and take on an endless underground that changes with every run!
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AETHUS
Single-player alternative to Vexlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vexlands.
Explore a vast underground world to mine and craft hundreds of items while building up your modular Outpost on the surface, to prospect for gems, refine resources and farm hydroponic crops in this top-down sci-fi survival-crafter where the story always provides a reason to dig deeper.
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DigDigDrill
Single-player alternative to Vexlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vexlands.
DigDigDrill is an underground mining and resource collecting game. Dig freely for minerals and treasures. Use the items you collect to forge your original drills in a hack-and-slash style equipment system.
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Quest Master
Single-player alternative to Vexlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vexlands.
Quest Master is a dungeon maker inspired by the classics that first made us love dungeon crawling. Unleash your imagination, alone or in local co-op, to make dungeons full of puzzles, traps and monsters. Upload them for others to explore and challenge yourself with other players’ creations.
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Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure
Single-player alternative to Vexlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Vexlands.
What's green with red spots, has suction hands, and has an overbite like Bart Simpson? Of course, the answer is Cosmo! Cosmo is a young alien on his way to visit Disney World with his parents. That is, until their ship is struck by a blazing comet, forcing them to land on an uncharted planet.
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Paganitzu
Single-player alternative to Vexlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Vexlands.
Journey into an Aztec pyramid and survive the adventure of a lifetime! No other game forces you to die in order to complete it! That's just one of many incredible plot twists in this excellent puzzle-oriented arcade-adventure game. Guide Alabama Smith (Al) into a vast and dangerous Aztec pyramid.
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Major Stryker
Single-player alternative to Vexlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
In the not-so-distant future, the calamity of World War III led to eventual world peace. But, it didn't last. Earth was invaded by alien marauders - the Kretons. Earth's united military force, still depleted after the mighty onslaught of WWIII, was not nearly sufficient to repel the numerous Kreton attacks.
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Realms of Chaos
Single-player alternative to Vexlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Vexlands.
Realms of Chaos is an exciting side-scrolling platform game with an innovative mix of action, adventure, mysticism, and role-playing that's never been seen in this style of game. Set in the fantastic world of Mysteria, Realms of Chaos is the first of many adventures of Endrick and Elandra, a brother and sister duo who find themselves on...
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Secret Agent
Single-player alternative to Vexlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
You are agent 006 - top agent of the government's secret organization committed to protecting the world against terrorists and power-mad criminals. Your mission: to parachute into a high -security island outpost and secure the plans to the ultimate satellite laser weapon, which was recently stolen from the government.
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Stargunner
Single-player alternative to Vexlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
In the far distant future, an epic war for survival takes place... Deep within the Andromeda galaxy, the people of Zile grow restless and greedy. The Zilions secretly prepare for a massive strike against the nearby planet Ytima. Fearing such an attack, the Ytimians train an elite squad of "Stargunners.