Single-player games like Dreaming Isles
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Dreaming Isles, 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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Captain Bones : A Pirate's Journey
Single-player alternative to Dreaming Isles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dreaming Isles.
Captain Bones is an action-adventure game set in an open pirate world. You must have survival skills to make ship battles and treasure hunts with your crew.
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Sid Meier's Pirates!
Single-player alternative to Dreaming Isles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Dreaming Isles.
Sail the Caribbean, marauding all on the high seas or ally your ship and crew as a privateer in search of riches - the life you choose is up to you. Face dogged enemies, raid unsuspecting villages, woo fair maidens, avoid capture or dig for buried treasure. Discover what it takes to become one of the most famous pirates in history!
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Stardew Valley
Single-player alternative to Dreaming Isles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dreaming Isles.
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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Nantucket
Single-player alternative to Dreaming Isles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dreaming Isles.
Chase after Moby Dick, and live through the Golden Age of American whaling in this seafaring strategy game. Set sail around the world, manage your ship and crew, and live Ishmael's story, the sole survivor of the Pequod, a few years after the events narrated by Herman Melville in his masterpiece.
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Windward
Single-player alternative to Dreaming Isles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dreaming Isles.
Windward is an action-filled multiplayer sandbox game that puts you in control of a ship sailing the high seas of a large procedurally-generated world.
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Sea Dogs: City of Abandoned Ships
Single-player alternative to Dreaming Isles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Dreaming Isles.
Fortune and glory awaits you! In Sea Dogs - City of Abandoned Ships you can choose to go it alone and become the most feared pirate of the seven seas. Or you can prove your loyalty to one of four different navies; French, English, Spanish, or Dutch.
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Windrose
Single-player alternative to Dreaming Isles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dreaming Isles.
Embark on a PvE survival adventure in the Age of Piracy. Fight on land and sea, solo or with friends. Build, craft and explore vast open world filled with dark secrets. Master soulslite combat and take on challenging bosses, command your ship and plunder unspoken treasures!
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Kynseed
Single-player alternative to Dreaming Isles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dreaming Isles.
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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Sun Haven
Single-player alternative to Dreaming Isles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dreaming Isles.
Build your farm and relationships with townsfolk, or forge ahead on a quest of magic, monsters, and dragons. Level up through a skill tree in 8 person multiplayer, or adventure solo!
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Cartacombs
Single-player alternative to Dreaming Isles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dreaming Isles.
Buckle up, hold on tight, and don't stop shooting! Cartacombs is a 2D endless-runner/shooter. Careen through mine shafts and caverns in your cart, leaping and blasting the monsters that lurk in the deep parts of the earth. Power up your weapon and cart, and see how far you can go!