Single-player games like Start Over
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Start Over, 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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The Forest
Single-player alternative to Start Over — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Start Over.
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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Out of Ore
Single-player alternative to Start Over — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Start Over.
A casual heavy equipment experience. Mine ore, Move dirt, Build and repair.
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Night of the Dead
Single-player alternative to Start Over — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Start Over.
'Night of the Dead' is an open-world game that combines elements of exploration, tower defense, survival, and crafting. Traverse a world dominated by zombies while collecting various resources and powerful equipment. Build a fortress to survive the hordes of zombies that swarm every night!
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Occupy Mars: The Game
Single-player alternative to Start Over — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Start Over.
Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.
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The Riftbreaker
Single-player alternative to Start Over — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Start Over.
The Riftbreaker is a solo or Co-op base-building, survival game with Action-RPG elements for up to 4 players. Hack & slash countless hordes of enemies. Build up your base, craft powerful weapons and research new inventions to survive.
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Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to Start Over — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Start Over.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
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Rising World
Single-player alternative to Start Over — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Start Over.
Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.
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Voidtrain
Single-player alternative to Start Over — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Start Over.
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
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The Infected
Single-player alternative to Start Over — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Start Over.
The Infected is a sandbox, first-person, open-world survival game. Build bases, craft, farm, hunt, and survive changing seasons. Choose whether to face the hybrid “Vambies” or turn them off for a pure survival experience.
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7 Days to Die
Single-player alternative to Start Over — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Start Over.
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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The Front
Single-player alternative to Start Over — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Start Over.
The Front is a survival open-world crafting sandbox game. You are a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop the rise of a tyrannical empire. Collect resources, craft tech, build shelters, and fight monsters to accomplish your mission.
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Planetaries
Single-player alternative to Start Over — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Start Over.
Experience a vast Sci-fi open-world survival TD game set on a distant planet deep in the universe. Craft, build, mine, trade, explore, and survive in this alien world. Collect Data and defend against waves of enemies seeking to banish you. Enjoy the adventure in Singleplayer or Multiplayer.
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Entities
Single-player alternative to Start Over — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Start Over.
Dive into horror in Entities. Solo or up to 4-player matches offer dynamic puzzles, relentless entities, and extraction shooter mechanics. Investigate, unlock paths, and survive in dangerous zones as a private operator. Master skill and terror. Are you ready to confront the unknown?