Single-player games like Project: Mist
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Project: Mist, 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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DREADZONE
Single-player alternative to Project: Mist — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Project: Mist.
Dreadzone is a survival game set in a deadly quarantine zone. Scavenge for resources, craft tools, build shelter, and survive against dangerous animals, zombies, mutants, and other survivors. Explore the zone where desperation drives everyone to do whatever it takes to survive.
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Heat Death: Survival Train
Single-player alternative to Project: Mist — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Project: Mist.
Heat Death is a sci-fi survival game where you can build, upgrade, and customize your battle train to explore and survive a frozen world! This train is not only your shelter and vehicle, but also your weapon and ally to face hostile drones, deadly storms, and hidden mysteries of an unknown world!
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PIONER
Single-player alternative to Project: Mist — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Early Access with Project: Mist.
PIONER drops players into a vast, grim world, where survival hinges on exploration, crafting, and smart resource management. As an MMO FPS, it offers both PvE missions and intense PvP zones, with unique crafting mechanics, hundreds of weapons and a deep story to explore.
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The Forest
Single-player alternative to Project: Mist — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Project: Mist.
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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Permafrost
Single-player alternative to Project: Mist — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Project: Mist.
Permafrost is a story-driven survival sandbox set in a frozen, post-apocalyptic world. Discover a vast lore-rich open world, alone or in co-op with up to 4 players. Explore, scavenge, craft, and build a network of shelters to outlast the cold.
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Zompiercer
Single-player alternative to Project: Mist — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Project: Mist.
Take control of the train which will become your haven on the rails. Collect resources, craft equipment, construct a cozy house on railway cars, and travel through the carefully handcrafted locations to explore the story of a zombie apocalypse world.
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Survival Machine
Single-player alternative to Project: Mist — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Project: Mist.
Build your base on a moving Machine, travel through biomes with different resources, and prepare for the night when a zombie threat is much higher than during the day. Would you go solo or explore this new world with your best friends?
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Outbreak Island
Single-player alternative to Project: Mist — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Project: Mist.
Survive on a remote Island, where a mysterious Outbreak awakens bloodthirsty monsters at night. Craft, build and defend your base in the brutal world of Outbreak Island, an open-world sandbox survival horror game.
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No Place Like Home
Single-player alternative to Project: Mist — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Project: Mist.
Humanity Trashed the Earth and left for Mars. Only few remained. EXPLORE the world. Clean the environment, CRAFT with recycled resources. Domesticate animals. Rebuild your village. Restore environment and run your own post-apo FARM as there is No Place Like Home!
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Fresh Start Cleaning Simulator
Single-player alternative to Project: Mist — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Project: Mist.
Fresh Start is a relaxing single player game, in which you embark on a mission to clean up the world and restore nature to its fresh and colorful shape. Watch as the world changes in front of your eyes as you help animals, solve puzzles and grow plants around you.
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Pan'orama
Single-player alternative to Project: Mist — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Project: Mist.
Relax and unleash your creativity in this new city building puzzle game. Create amazing landscapes and discover wide range of structures with special abilities. Enter the world of beauty and tranquility with the panoramas of your own creation and don't forget to pet your new animal friends!
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Captain Pawsome
Single-player alternative to Project: Mist — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Project: Mist.
Set sail with Captain Pawsome on the relaxing 2D fishing adventure! Craft, upgrade, customize, and conquer the high seas. Clean the environment, catch unique fish, and unleash your inner adventurer. Dive in now and make a splash!
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Pan'orama: Prologue
Single-player alternative to Project: Mist — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Project: Mist.
Pan'orama is a relaxing and soothing puzzle simulation game in which you create amazing landscapes using different types of tiles, but most of all by discovering the connections between them and finding unique combinations.