Single-player games like Elysium
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Elysium, 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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Rinthine
Single-player alternative to Elysium — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Elysium.
Brave the depths of an ever-changing labyrinth in search of secrets, treasures—or simply a place to call home.
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MISERY
Single-player alternative to Elysium — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Elysium.
MISERY is a 1–5 player co-op survival game set in a nuclear disaster zone. Here, every day is a struggle: search radioactive ruins for resources, build your bunker, craft weapons, and explore a weird, procedurally-generated world with your friends. Beware of anomalies, monsters, and armed bandits.
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The Forest
Single-player alternative to Elysium — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Elysium.
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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Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to Elysium — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Elysium.
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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Zombie Survival Game Online
Single-player alternative to Elysium — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Elysium.
Zombie Survival Game Online is an open-world, post-apocalyptic, looter shooter. Craft, quest, explore, build, and fight for survival. Parkour up a mountainside, ramp a truck over a horde, and grab a gasmask to explore the sewers. Can you survive? Doubtful.
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Whisper of the Swallows
Single-player alternative to Elysium — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Elysium.
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 Elysium — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Elysium.
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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Dune: Awakening
Single-player alternative to Elysium — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Elysium.
Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival RPG where you can fully immerse yourself in the epic world of Dune. Alone or with friends, explore a vast open world Arrakis, survive the sandworms, build a home, craft an ornithopter, and unravel the mystery of the missing Fremen.