Single-player games like Island Notes
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Island Notes, 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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Dinotica
Single-player alternative to Island Notes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Island Notes.
Welcome to Dinotica! Stomp into a mysterious and dangerous world filled with action, adventure, and companionship! Together, you'll fight, build, farm, and more as you work toward creating a unique home that is truly your own.
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Shamania
Single-player alternative to Island Notes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Island Notes.
Shamania is an open world survival game where you can CRAFT, FIGHT, and EXPLORE a vibrant sandbox world with friends in CO-OP. Expand your base as a hub for survival, gather resources, and master professions to unlock new tools and opportunities!
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Nested Lands
Single-player alternative to Island Notes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Island Notes.
Nested Lands is a ruthless medieval RPG game featuring in-depth village building, large-scale social management and combats. Gather survivors, build a settlement, craft, master your skills, survive, and endure alone or in online co-op.
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Soulmask
Single-player alternative to Island Notes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Island Notes.
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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Tinkerlands
Single-player alternative to Island Notes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Island Notes.
Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!
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Cubic Odyssey
Single-player alternative to Island Notes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Island Notes.
Embark on a galactic journey in Cubic Odyssey, an open-world adventure where you explore vibrant planets, craft tools, build vehicles, and fight the Red Darkness. Uncover ancient mysteries, and shape a universe full of life, danger, and limitless possibilities!
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IfSunSets
Single-player alternative to Island Notes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Island Notes.
「IfSunSets」 is a survival RPG adventure game. During the day, secure necessary supplies across the island, and survive the night against strong and terrifying monsters that track you down. You can utilize resources you've secured to build a base to fend off threatening monsters.
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Eastern Era
Single-player alternative to Island Notes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Island Notes.
To escape from pursuit, as the leader of your sect, guide your disciples to rise again! Engage in farming and hunting, train in martial arts, and forge weapons and armor. Build your sect's base and fortifications from the ground up to survive in this perilous, ambition-filled martial world!
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The Forest
Single-player alternative to Island Notes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Island Notes.
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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Subnautica
Single-player alternative to Island Notes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Island Notes.
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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The Long Dark
Single-player alternative to Island Notes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Island Notes.
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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Stranded Deep
Single-player alternative to Island Notes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Island Notes.
Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.
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ARK: Survival Evolved
Single-player alternative to Island Notes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Island Notes.
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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Conan Exiles
Single-player alternative to Island Notes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Island Notes.
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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Raft
Single-player alternative to Island Notes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Island Notes.
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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Valheim
Single-player alternative to Island Notes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Island Notes.
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!