Single-player games like Don't Starve Elsewhere
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Don't Starve Elsewhere, 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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Isles of Arcana
Single-player alternative to Don't Starve Elsewhere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Don't Starve Elsewhere.
You are a Guardian, sent to a world consumed by corruption. Explore increasingly dangerous biomes, gather resources, craft powerful tools, and uncover lost technology as you fight to save Arcana. Play solo or with up to four players.
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The First Library
Single-player alternative to Don't Starve Elsewhere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Don't Starve Elsewhere.
Restore a fallen medieval world in this co-op survival builder. Knowledge is your most important resource: Travel through portals, defeat mighty bosses, and reclaim lost books. Build your library stone by stone, unlock new worlds, and defend your knowledge against the shadows.
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Valorwood (Early Access)
Single-player alternative to Don't Starve Elsewhere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Don't Starve Elsewhere.
Explore realms, timelines, and dimensions in this stylized open-world survival RPG. Gather, craft, build, and battle through shifting worlds as you uncover the mysteries of Valorwood, alone or with friends.
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Vestalborne
Single-player alternative to Don't Starve Elsewhere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Don't Starve Elsewhere.
Break the world, then build your own. Vestalborne is an unlimited open-world survival crafting RPG: mine, farm, build and destroy across procedural dimensions, and fight the rising danger. Collect Embers, grow stronger, and keep the Eternal Flame burning solo, with friends, or against them.
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Emberhaven
Single-player alternative to Don't Starve Elsewhere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Don't Starve Elsewhere.
Survive in a procedurally generated fantasy world overrun by creeping corruption. Build impenetrable strongholds, tend your farms, forge deadly weapons, and fend off hordes of mutated abominations to defend your last sanctuary.
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Ecliptica
Single-player alternative to Don't Starve Elsewhere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Don't Starve Elsewhere.
Ecliptica is a first-person open-world colony survival simulator with a fully dynamic economy. Set on a hostile alien planet, you'll found corporations, fight for resources, and build a sustainable future—or be wiped out by ruthless nature, politics, and competition.
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JOIN US
Single-player alternative to Don't Starve Elsewhere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Don't Starve Elsewhere.
Start a doomsday cult of your very own! Recruit followers, build your compound, customize your cult’s beliefs, and defeat enemies in this 1-4 player co-op, action-packed, open-world survival experience. Can you survive the Apocalypse?
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Guardians of the Wild Sky
Single-player alternative to Don't Starve Elsewhere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Don't Starve Elsewhere.
Survive, build, craft and explore a vast magical world as you capture and bond with powerful Guardians. Captain your own airship and sail the cloud seas. Build everything from cozy homes to flying castles. Explore this world solo or with friends; the skies are yours to conquer!
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Don't Starve Together
Single-player alternative to Don't Starve Elsewhere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Don't Starve Elsewhere.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
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Oxygen Not Included
Single-player alternative to Don't Starve Elsewhere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Don't Starve Elsewhere.
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
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Don't Starve
Single-player alternative to Don't Starve Elsewhere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Don't Starve Elsewhere.
Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.
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Griftlands
Single-player alternative to Don't Starve Elsewhere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Don't Starve Elsewhere.
Griftlands is a deck-building roguelite where you negotiate, fight, steal or otherwise persuade others to get your way. Every decision is important, be it the jobs you take, the friends you make, or the cards you collect.
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Mark of the Ninja
Single-player alternative to Don't Starve Elsewhere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Don't Starve Elsewhere.
In Mark of the Ninja, you'll know what it is to truly be a ninja. You must be silent, agile and clever to outwit your opponents in a world of gorgeous scenery and flowing animation. Marked with cursed tattoos giving you heightened senses, every situation presents you with options.
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Rotwood
Single-player alternative to Don't Starve Elsewhere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Don't Starve Elsewhere.
The world has been thrown into chaos, and it's up to you and your friends to battle the corrupted beasts of the Rotwood. Upgrade your gear, choose your preferred weapon, and hone your skills to defend your safe haven.
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Mark of the Ninja: Remastered
Single-player alternative to Don't Starve Elsewhere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Don't Starve Elsewhere.
In Mark of the Ninja, you'll know what it is to truly be a ninja. You must be silent, agile and clever to outwit your opponents in a world of gorgeous scenery and flowing animation.
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Hot Lava
Single-player alternative to Don't Starve Elsewhere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Don't Starve Elsewhere.
The Floor is Hot Lava! Run, jump, climb, and surf across nostalgia-packed environments flooded with hot molten lava. Explore alone, or join your friends. And whatever you do, don’t touch the floor.