Single-player games like Loya
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Loya, 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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Starting Life In Another World Naked
Single-player alternative to Loya — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Loya.
You will venture into a world much like ours before you are "taken" to another world, a fantasy world. You are the hero of this new world, but sadly you start off with nothing. You must survive and build your way to defeating the Demon King; that's why you were summoned in the first place.
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Broken World
Single-player alternative to Loya — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Loya.
"Broken World" is an exciting post-apocalyptic low-poly game where players have to survive in a world overrun by zombies and chaos. Build and strengthen your shelters, fight various threats and explore a dangerous world full of secrets and dangers.
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Settletopia
Single-player alternative to Loya — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Grow a small colony into a vast, world-spanning civilization. Play solo or with friends as you gather resources, build cities, manage colonist needs, explore uncharted lands, establish logistics, raise armies, forge alliances, and wage wars—all in a living world.
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Necesse
Single-player alternative to Loya — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Loya.
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
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Plains of Pain
Single-player alternative to Loya — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Loya.
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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ARK: Survival Ascended
Single-player alternative to Loya — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Loya.
ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!
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Wayward
Single-player alternative to Loya — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Loya.
You awake to discover yourself no longer in the company of good men or a fine seafaring vessel. Treasure... you remember something about treasure. Wayward is a challenging turn-based, top-down, wilderness survival roguelike. Explore, build, and most importantly survive in these unforgiving lands.
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Dark and Light
Single-player alternative to Loya — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Loya.
Dark and Light is a vast sandbox survival RPG set in a world dominated by powerful elemental forces. Find your way in a meticulously crafted world, featuring breathtaking landscapes, a wide variety of mythical creatures, and limitless possibility to craft, build, and unlock dozens of powerful weapons, spells, and skills.