Single-player games like ARK: Survival Ascended
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to ARK: Survival Ascended, 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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ARK: Survival Evolved
Single-player alternative to ARK: Survival Ascended — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with ARK: Survival Ascended.
Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!
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Ultimate Multiplayer Survival Engine
Single-player alternative to ARK: Survival Ascended — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with ARK: Survival Ascended.
The only goal is survival. Explore a dangerous world, gather resources, craft equipment, build shelter, and fight to stay alive. Whether alone or with friends, every decision could mean the difference between thriving and losing everything.
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Starting Life In Another World Naked
Single-player alternative to ARK: Survival Ascended — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Massively Multiplayer with ARK: Survival Ascended.
You will venture into a world much like ours before you are "taken" to another world, a fantasy world. You are the hero of this new world, but sadly you start off with nothing. You must survive and build your way to defeating the Demon King; that's why you were summoned in the first place.
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THE LAST BREATH
Single-player alternative to ARK: Survival Ascended — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with ARK: Survival Ascended.
Survive the post-apocalypse world. There's a predator who's going after you. This is Online and local party games enjoyed by 1 to 5 players. you have to Survive in an end-of-life world.
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CardLife: Creative Survival
Single-player alternative to ARK: Survival Ascended — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with ARK: Survival Ascended.
Hand draw any weapon, tool, building piece and your own character in this innovative science-fantasy creative survival game. Mine for resources, construct unique buildings and battle fantastical beasts with friends or play alone. Explore a world made entirely out of cardboard!
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CryoFall
Single-player alternative to ARK: Survival Ascended — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with ARK: Survival Ascended.
CryoFall is a sci-fi colony simulation survival game set on a forgotten planet in a distant future. Master technology, agriculture, trading, industry, cybernetics, exploration, and more!
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7 Days to Die
Single-player alternative to ARK: Survival Ascended — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with ARK: Survival Ascended.
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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Colony Survival
Single-player alternative to ARK: Survival Ascended — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with ARK: Survival Ascended.
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
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Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
Single-player alternative to ARK: Survival Ascended — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with ARK: Survival Ascended.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.