Single-player games like AsHes
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to AsHes, 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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Blood Red
Single-player alternative to AsHes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with AsHes.
Blood Red is a co-op survival horror game that can be played with 1-4 players. Figure out the demon and banish it using your special demon hunting kit!
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The Forest
Single-player alternative to AsHes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with AsHes.
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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Whisper of the Swallows
Single-player alternative to AsHes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with AsHes.
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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Don't Starve Together
Single-player alternative to AsHes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with AsHes.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
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MISERY
Single-player alternative to AsHes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with AsHes.
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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ARK: Survival Ascended
Single-player alternative to AsHes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with AsHes.
ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!
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Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts
Single-player alternative to AsHes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with AsHes.
Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts is a Multiplayer Survival Horror game for up to 4 players. Set in the Middle of the Unknown, you can craft, build, explore and discover secrets in the exciting first chapter from EFNSOFT.
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Craftopia
Single-player alternative to AsHes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with AsHes.
Craftopia is the brand new multiplayer survival action game made in Japan. We combined many features we find enjoyable, such as hunting, farming, hack-and-slash, building, automation to develop this game.
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Valheim
Single-player alternative to AsHes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with AsHes.
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!