Single-player games like NEO Scavenger
Below are 15 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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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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Infinite Survival
Single-player alternative to NEO Scavenger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with NEO Scavenger.
Infinite Survival is a roguelike survival game with turn-based gameplay. The game features a completely procedurally generated open world. Craft new items and weapons, lay traps and defences, use stealth to evade enemies, and explore in any fashion you want.
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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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Lost Scavenger
Single-player alternative to NEO Scavenger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with NEO Scavenger.
How long could you survive in a parallel universe where the Mist dictates its rules? Would you be able to find the way to your homeworld, or will you adapt to live under the Mist domain? Fight for resources, get together with other survivors and discover the secrets of this world.
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Zafehouse: Diaries
Single-player alternative to NEO Scavenger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with NEO Scavenger.
Stuck in a remote, abandoned town, you must lead five survivors with conflicting motivations, fragile relationships and fiery prejudices to safety from the roving undead. A sophisticated engine generates new survivors, towns and content so every adventure is a different experience, and you can use built-in editors to add yourself and...
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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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Dungeons of Dredmor
Single-player alternative to NEO Scavenger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with NEO Scavenger.
Test your luck and cunning in this exciting RPG as you craft, cast, and pillage your way through Lord Dredmor's Dungeons.
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Tales of Maj'Eyal
Single-player alternative to NEO Scavenger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with NEO Scavenger.
Tales of Maj’Eyal is a roguelike RPG, featuring tactical turn-based combat and advanced character building. Play as one of many unique races and classes in the lore-filled world of Eyal, exploring random dungeons, facing challenging battles, and developing characters with your own tailored mix of abilities and powers.
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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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TERMINUS
Single-player alternative to NEO Scavenger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with NEO Scavenger.
Embark on a psychedelic 30 minute VR journey into a mysterious universe of alien architecture, populated by humanoid clones and cryptic symbols.
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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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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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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.