Single-player games like The Forest
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to The Forest, 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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Sons Of The Forest
Single-player alternative to The Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Forest.
Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.
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Green Hell
Single-player alternative to The Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Forest.
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
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Subnautica
Single-player alternative to The Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Forest.
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
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7 Days to Die
Single-player alternative to The Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Forest.
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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Project Zomboid
Single-player alternative to The Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Forest.
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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Valheim
Single-player alternative to The Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Forest.
A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
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The Long Dark
Single-player alternative to The Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Forest.
THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.
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Raft
Single-player alternative to The Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Forest.
Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!
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Going Medieval
Single-player alternative to The Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Forest.
Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.
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Factorio
Single-player alternative to The Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Forest.
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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Kenshi
Single-player alternative to The Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Forest.
A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.
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Conan Exiles
Single-player alternative to The Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Forest.
An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.
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Fallout 4
Single-player alternative to The Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
From Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of Starfield and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, comes Fallout 4. A landmark in open-world RPG design and winner of over 200 ‘Best Of’ honors, including the DICE and BAFTA Game of the Year.
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Enshrouded
Single-player alternative to The Forest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Forest.
Enshrouded is a solo and co-op survival action RPG where your freedom and creativity come first. Conquer the Shroud, a corrupting fog devouring the kingdom of Embervale: explore a handcrafted world full of secrets, forge your hero your way, and build anything, anywhere in a fully terraformable land.