Single-player games like The Risen Survival
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Risen Survival, 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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Ultimate Multiplayer Survival Engine
Single-player alternative to The Risen Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Risen Survival.
The only goal is survival. Explore a dangerous world, gather resources, craft equipment, build shelter, and fight to stay alive. Whether alone or with friends, every decision could mean the difference between thriving and losing everything.
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Terminus: Zombie Survivors 2
Single-player alternative to The Risen Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Risen Survival.
The dead won. Terminus: Zombie Survivors 2 is an open-world survival game: your past life shapes your second one – a nurse survives one way, a cop another. Scavenge, craft, build, farm, alone or with friends. The dead don't starve, don't tire, don't freeze. You do. Reach the Terminus, or die trying.
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Junk Survivor
Single-player alternative to The Risen Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Risen Survival.
Junk Survivor is a zombie post-apocalypse game where you loot, craft, build and farm in a struggle to survive. With a vast map to explore, a robust skillset to unlock this customizable sandbox awaits the adventurer. How long before you die!
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Journey Of Life
Single-player alternative to The Risen Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Risen Survival.
You have experienced the sudden loss of your wealth, which has compelled you to abandon your previous life and begin anew. By venturing into the game world, you can construct settlements and forge alliances with other players, ensuring that you will always have exciting challenges to undertake.
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Night of the Dead
Single-player alternative to The Risen Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Risen Survival.
'Night of the Dead' is an open-world game that combines elements of exploration, tower defense, survival, and crafting. Traverse a world dominated by zombies while collecting various resources and powerful equipment. Build a fortress to survive the hordes of zombies that swarm every night!
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Plains of Pain
Single-player alternative to The Risen Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Risen Survival.
Survive a brutal open world alone or with friends. Explore a procedural wasteland scorched by chaos. Build and defend your base, trade for what you need, complete deadly quests, and fight to claim faction outposts before someone else does.
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Survive the Nights
Single-player alternative to The Risen Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Risen Survival.
Hardcore open-world survival where preparation is everything. Scavenge, craft, fortify during the day. When night falls, the infected hunt in numbers. Play solo or with friends in a brutal post-apocalyptic sandbox where survival is earned through smart decisions. How many Nights will you survive?
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The Forest
Single-player alternative to The Risen Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Risen Survival.
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.