Single-player games like Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
Below are 10 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: The Last Generation
Single-player alternative to Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead.
A post-apocalyptic roguelike set in modern-day New England. Scavenge tools to craft an arsenal capable of dealing with the ever-evolving hordes of zombies, mutants, aliens, and robots in one of the deepest survival sims around.
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Soulash 2
Single-player alternative to Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead.
Soulash 2 is a sandbox RPG roguelike with a procedurally generated open world, simulated history, skill-based progression system, customizable abilities, material-based crafting, building, trading, and the possibility of total mayhem. Will you save your world or destroy it?
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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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Don't Starve
Single-player alternative to Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead.
Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.
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NEO Scavenger
Single-player alternative to Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead.
NEO Scavenger is a game where you must survive in the wasteland long enough to figure out who you are. Each turn, you must decide where to go, how to scavenge for supplies, and how to deal with anything and anyone you encounter.
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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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ZED ZONE
Single-player alternative to Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead.
A great catastrophe has come, and you, who are on duty, crash and trapped in a Zed Zone. There are zombies and monsters everywhere, In order to escape, by collecting materials, upgrading skills, building shelters, defeating zombie waves and mysterious mechs, chasing a glimmer of hope.
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Dead in Antares
Single-player alternative to Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead.
Dead in Antares is a turn-based survival management game with RPG elements, set on an alien planet. Lead a crew of survivors sent on a mission to save humanity. Manage their needs, strengthen their teamwork, and explore this mysterious world to find a way back home.
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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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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.