Single-player games like Kenshi
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Kenshi, 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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RimWorld
Single-player alternative to Kenshi — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Kenshi.
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
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Dwarf Fortress
Single-player alternative to Kenshi — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Kenshi.
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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Project Zomboid
Single-player alternative to Kenshi — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Kenshi.
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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7 Days to Die
Single-player alternative to Kenshi — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Kenshi.
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
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This War of Mine
Single-player alternative to Kenshi — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Kenshi.
In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle.
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Banished
Single-player alternative to Kenshi — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kenshi.
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
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Factorio
Single-player alternative to Kenshi — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Kenshi.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
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Prison Architect
Single-player alternative to Kenshi — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kenshi.
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
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Mount & Blade
Single-player alternative to Kenshi — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Kenshi.
Calradia is a land at war, offering great riches and even greater dangers to adventurers and mercenaries that flock to shed their blood on its soil. With courage and a strong sword, an unknown stranger can make a name as a warrior. Free-form sand-box gameplay.
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Elin
Single-player alternative to Kenshi — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kenshi.
Successor to the roguelike RPG "Elona". Adventure, survival, crafting, home-building, myths passed down, and stories of humans and Elea spun. What scars will you leave on the land of Ylva?
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The Matchless Kungfu
Single-player alternative to Kenshi — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Kenshi.
The Matchless Kungfu is an open world sandbox RPG game based on a WuXia background. You can play any martial arts role you imagine in this wild world. Travel through the great wilderness, or be the leader of the group. The most important thing is, build your own story and live the experience!
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The Sims™ Legacy Collection
Single-player alternative to Kenshi — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Kenshi.
The original game you know and love. For Windows 10/11. Create a neighborhood of Sims and guide their lives through careers and romance. Or create chaos with open-ended gameplay that lets you shape their destinies.
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The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition
Single-player alternative to Kenshi — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Kenshi.
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition includes Morrowind plus all of the content from the Bloodmoon and Tribunal expansions. The original Mod Construction Set is not included in this package. An epic, open-ended single-player RPG, Morrowind allows you to create and play any kind of character imaginable.
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Single-player alternative to Kenshi — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Kenshi.
EPIC FANTASY REBORN The next chapter in the highly anticipated Elder Scrolls saga arrives from the makers of the 2006 and 2008 Games of the Year, Bethesda Game Studios. Skyrim reimagines and revolutionizes the open-world fantasy epic, bringing to life a complete virtual world open for you to explore any way you choose.
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Mad Max
Single-player alternative to Kenshi — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Kenshi.
Play as Mad Max, a reluctant hero and survivor who wants nothing more than to leave the madness behind and find solace.
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Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
Single-player alternative to Kenshi — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Kenshi.
A strategy/action RPG. Create a character, engage in diplomacy, craft, trade and conquer new lands in a vast medieval sandbox. Raise armies to lead into battle and command and fight alongside your troops in massive real-time battles using a deep but intuitive skill-based combat system.