Single-player games like Surviving Deponia
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Surviving Deponia, 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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Golemcrafter
Single-player alternative to Surviving Deponia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Surviving Deponia.
Golemcrafter is a single-player survival crafting game where you, as a golem, explore a magical world, gather resources, build a base, harness the local wildlife, and craft powerful golems like yourself. Make friends, gain powers!
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Medieval Builders: Strongholds & Castles
Single-player alternative to Surviving Deponia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Surviving Deponia.
Craft, hunt, and survive in fantasy medieval world. Build your village, manage and defend castles and whole kingdoms. Become a local lord and a builder. Strongholds & Castles are waiting for you to manage them - alone or with your friends!
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Machine Mind
Single-player alternative to Surviving Deponia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Surviving Deponia.
Machine Mind is an action game in a post-apocalyptic setting with elements of survival and RTS. You will fight, craft modules, build your transport, develop and protect your base. You can control other vehicles to automate operations. Discover all the secrets of the destroyed world!
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Outbreak Island
Single-player alternative to Surviving Deponia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Surviving Deponia.
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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Planet Explorers
Single-player alternative to Surviving Deponia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Surviving Deponia.
Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.
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Portal Knights
Single-player alternative to Surviving Deponia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Surviving Deponia.
The world of Elysia needs YOU! Join this cooperative, 3D sandbox action RPG to level up your character, craft epic weapons, conquer enemies in real-time, and build almost anything! Craft your adventure. Forge your hero. Become the ultimate Portal Knight!
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Tinkerlands
Single-player alternative to Surviving Deponia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Surviving Deponia.
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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Voidtrain
Single-player alternative to Surviving Deponia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Surviving Deponia.
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
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Deponia
Single-player alternative to Surviving Deponia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Surviving Deponia.
In Deponia, the world has degenerated into a vast garbage dump, in which the crotchety Rufus ekes out his sorry existence.
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Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth
Single-player alternative to Surviving Deponia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Surviving Deponia.
12th century, England: In a time of poverty and war, a small town begins the construction of a cathedral to claim wealth and safety for its people. In their struggle to survive, lives and destinies intertwine. Based on Ken Follett's world-bestseller ‘The Pillars of the Earth’.
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Deponia: The Complete Journey
Single-player alternative to Surviving Deponia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Surviving Deponia.
Junk, junk and even more junk. Life on the trash-planet Deponia is anything but a walk in the park. No surprise that Rufus had enough of that and hatches one ludicrous plan after the other to escape this bleak place.
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Blackguards
Single-player alternative to Surviving Deponia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Surviving Deponia.
What happens when the only hope of a threatened world lies not with heroes in shining armor, but in the hands of a band of misfits and criminals? Blackguards, a new turn-based strategy RPG, explores this very question. You will discover over 180 unique hex-based battlegrounds within a dark and mature story of crime, drugs, and murder.
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Deponia Doomsday
Single-player alternative to Surviving Deponia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Surviving Deponia.
Can you change Deponia's fate? Do you have what it takes to change Rufus' past, present and future without accidently destroying the whole planet? Fight time itself in this action-packed, platypus-tastic and insanely hilarious story.
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The Night of the Rabbit
Single-player alternative to Surviving Deponia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Surviving Deponia.
Lose yourself in a tale of magic and wonder, where anything is possible and where nothing is quite as it seems: join young Jerry and follow a peculiar white rabbit to the wondrous realm of Mousewood, a land where critters can speak and where mystery abounds.
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Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes
Single-player alternative to Surviving Deponia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Surviving Deponia.
From the creators of the award winning games “The Whispered World” and “Deponia” comes this extraordinary game Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes.
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Chaos on Deponia
Single-player alternative to Surviving Deponia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Surviving Deponia.
With this long-expected sequel to the critically highly acclaimed and lavishly praised Deponia, the player enters round two. Chaos on Deponia turns out to be even wackier than its predecessor and instantly puts the player under its spell.