Single-player games like NEO Scavenger
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to NEO Scavenger, 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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UnderRail
Single-player alternative to NEO Scavenger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with NEO Scavenger.
UnderRail is an old-school turn-based isometric role-playing game that features a large open post-apocalyptic world, deep and challenging combat and an intricate storyline.
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Don't Starve
Single-player alternative to NEO Scavenger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with NEO Scavenger.
Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.
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Invisible, Inc.
Single-player alternative to NEO Scavenger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with NEO Scavenger.
Take control of Invisible's agents in the field and infiltrate the world's most dangerous corporations. Stealth, precision, and teamwork are essential in high-stakes, high-profit missions, where every move may cost an agent their life.
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March of the Living
Single-player alternative to NEO Scavenger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with NEO Scavenger.
Roguelike-like inspired by FTL and popular zombie fiction. Guide a group of survivors to a rumoured safe haven.
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Teleglitch: Die More Edition
Single-player alternative to NEO Scavenger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with NEO Scavenger.
In a cold, dark future dominated by mega-corporations, a small lonely planet on the edge of habitable space is the site of a shadowy research facility specializing in necrotic tissue reactivation. You are a scientist who has suddenly awoken to the realization that you are the lone survivor.
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Caves of Qud
Single-player alternative to NEO Scavenger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with NEO Scavenger.
Inhabit a deeply-simulated science fantasy world and chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations. Build a character from over a hundred mutations and cybernetics. The award-winning sandbox roguelike & RPG full of robots, deep lore, and sentient plants.
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Darkest Dungeon®
Single-player alternative to NEO Scavenger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with NEO Scavenger.
Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?
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Sword of the Stars: The Pit
Single-player alternative to NEO Scavenger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with NEO Scavenger.
A fun, fast, light-hearted, turn-based RPG, where the tradition of old school dungeon-diving games meets the sci-fi Sword of the Stars universe!
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Ostranauts
Single-player alternative to NEO Scavenger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with NEO Scavenger.
Navigate your scrappy ship through the boneyard in search of valuable parts in abandoned vessels. Use salvage to upgrade your ship, or sell it for cash to pay down your mounting debt, or restock fuel, air, or food. Fly and role-play aboard your dream spaceship in this hardcore noir space-sim.
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Project Zomboid
Single-player alternative to NEO Scavenger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with NEO Scavenger.
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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Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
Single-player alternative to NEO Scavenger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with NEO Scavenger.
The epitome of a modern traditional roguelike: with turn-based play and a RPG-like skill progression system, it hearkens back to some of the major aspects of this genre. This game has an incredible depth, with a deep inventory system, vehicles and boats, NPCs with their own stories, and more.
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Wayward
Single-player alternative to NEO Scavenger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with NEO Scavenger.
You awake to discover yourself no longer in the company of good men or a fine seafaring vessel. Treasure... you remember something about treasure. Wayward is a challenging turn-based, top-down, wilderness survival roguelike. Explore, build, and most importantly survive in these unforgiving lands.
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UnReal World
Single-player alternative to NEO Scavenger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with NEO Scavenger.
The cult classic open-ended wilderness survival roguelike taking place in the ancient North, iron-age Finland. Throughout the years, UnReal World has been praised for its incredible depth, realism, atmos and immersion. Lose yourself in the most intricate, detailed and enchanting iron-age game world.
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ZED ZONE
Single-player alternative to NEO Scavenger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with NEO Scavenger.
A great catastrophe has come, and you, who are on duty, crash and trapped in a Zed Zone. There are zombies and monsters everywhere, In order to escape, by collecting materials, upgrading skills, building shelters, defeating zombie waves and mysterious mechs, chasing a glimmer of hope.
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ICY: Frostbite Edition
Single-player alternative to NEO Scavenger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with NEO Scavenger.
ICY: Frostbite Edition is a narrative-driven post-apocalyptic survival RPG set in a new Ice Age. Create your character, lead your family, make difficult choices, and try to survive in a frozen world.
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Dead In Vinland
Single-player alternative to NEO Scavenger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with NEO Scavenger.
DEAD IN VINLAND is a survival/management game, mixed with RPG and adventure elements, about a Viking family trying their best to survive on a mysterious island.