Single-player games like Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, 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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Cataclysm: Bright Future Ahead
Single-player alternative to Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead.
Cataclysm: Bright Future Ahead is a thrilling turn-based survival RPG set in a post-apocalyptic world. Scavenge for resources, craft essential tools and build vehicles to overcome challenges. Explore procedurally generated environments where every choice shapes your story and survival.
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Parasite
Single-player alternative to Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead.
This is a roguelike open-world sandbox survival horror set in a modern city. Play as an --redacted-- parasite, possess human hosts, exploit and evolve them to help you survive in a hostile world, all to find out your one true purpose.
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Apsis Online
Single-player alternative to Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead.
Apsis Online is a minimalist multi-user roguelike (MUR) in which you play a Voyager. A human, mentally and physically augmented for a new life in deep space.
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Terminus: Zombie Survivors
Single-player alternative to Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead.
Terminus: Zombie Survivors is a 2D turn-based survival roguelike set during a zombie apocalypse. Each journey is unique, and every decision can mean the difference between life and death. Can you brave hunger, cold, and the undead in order to reach the Terminus and find salvation?
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Hyper Dungeon Crawler
Single-player alternative to Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead.
Hyper Dungeon Crawler is a turn-based roguelike RPG with crafting. Collect materials and craft your unique tools, weapons, magic spells and other supplements and fight your way through a series of procedurally generated scenes.
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Caves of Qud
Single-player alternative to Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead.
Inhabit a deeply-simulated science fantasy world and chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations. Build a character from over a hundred mutations and cybernetics. The award-winning sandbox roguelike & RPG full of robots, deep lore, and sentient plants.
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Sword of the Stars: The Pit
Single-player alternative to Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead.
A fun, fast, light-hearted, turn-based RPG, where the tradition of old school dungeon-diving games meets the sci-fi Sword of the Stars universe!
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Wayward
Single-player alternative to Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead.
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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Project Zomboid
Single-player alternative to Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead.
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
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Dwarf Fortress
Single-player alternative to Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
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Rogue
Single-player alternative to Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead.
Experience the commercial port of the game that spawned a thousand 'Rogue-likes'. Venture into the Dungeons of Doom in search of the legendary Amulet of Yendor, and hopefully escape with your life! Randomly generated dungeons await you, full of nasty monsters, insidious traps, and glittering loot.