Single-player games like Wild Alone
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Wild Alone, 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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Afterinfection
Single-player alternative to Wild Alone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Wild Alone.
Afterinfection is a brand new zombie survival game designed in Unreal 4 and being developed by a small team from Thailand. After creating your survivor, you’ll start with nothing and have to make your way across a large island searching for food, water, weapons, and crafting supplies.
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ARK: Survival Evolved
Single-player alternative to Wild Alone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Wild Alone.
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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PIONER
Single-player alternative to Wild Alone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Massively Multiplayer with Wild Alone.
PIONER drops players into a vast, grim world, where survival hinges on exploration, crafting, and smart resource management. As an MMO FPS, it offers both PvE missions and intense PvP zones, with unique crafting mechanics, hundreds of weapons and a deep story to explore.
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The Forest
Single-player alternative to Wild Alone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Wild Alone.
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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Valheim
Single-player alternative to Wild Alone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Wild Alone.
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!
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Don't Starve Together
Single-player alternative to Wild Alone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Wild Alone.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
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Zombie Survival Game Online
Single-player alternative to Wild Alone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Wild Alone.
Zombie Survival Game Online is an open-world, post-apocalyptic, looter shooter. Craft, quest, explore, build, and fight for survival. Parkour up a mountainside, ramp a truck over a horde, and grab a gasmask to explore the sewers. Can you survive? Doubtful.
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The Survivalists
Single-player alternative to Wild Alone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Wild Alone.
A living world full of surprises, secrets and danger awaits in The Survivalists, an adventure-filled survival sandbox set in The Escapists universe. Explore, build, craft and even train monkeys with up to three friends in a desperate bid to survive. Have you got what it takes to be a Survivalist?
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ARK: Survival Ascended
Single-player alternative to Wild Alone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Wild Alone.
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!