Single-player games like Ardent Wilds
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Ardent Wilds, 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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Barbarian
Single-player alternative to Ardent Wilds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ardent Wilds.
Soulslike-inspired open-world survival RPG for 1-10 players. Master fluid combat with precise parries and dodges, defeat epic bosses, craft & upgrade gear, build your base, and share items with friends. Your progression persists across every world — play solo or with friends.
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The Forest
Single-player alternative to Ardent Wilds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ardent Wilds.
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.
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Len's Island
Single-player alternative to Ardent Wilds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ardent Wilds.
An open-world survival crafting game for 1–8 players, blending intense dungeon crawling and ARPG combat with peaceful farming and creative building. Take on quests and explore a vast, procedurally-generated world full of danger and discovery.
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Necesse
Single-player alternative to Ardent Wilds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ardent Wilds.
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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Don't Starve Together
Single-player alternative to Ardent Wilds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ardent Wilds.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
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Whisper of the Swallows
Single-player alternative to Ardent Wilds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ardent Wilds.
Brave a savage, unforgiving procedurally generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark will hunt you down. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to turn a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.
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Soulmask
Single-player alternative to Ardent Wilds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ardent Wilds.
Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.
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The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™
Single-player alternative to Ardent Wilds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Ardent Wilds.
A survival crafting adventure set in the Fourth Age of Middle-earth. Lead the Dwarves to reclaim Moria - mine, build, and battle through procedurally generated depths alone or with up to 8 players in co-op. It is time to return to Moria!