Single-player games like 7 Days to Die
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to 7 Days to Die, 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.
Want the full alternatives list (paid + free + Steam Deck + cheaper picks)? See the parent games like 7 Days to Die page.
Ranked picks
- 1
Project Zomboid
Single-player alternative to 7 Days to Die — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with 7 Days to Die.
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..
- 2
Night of the Dead
Single-player alternative to 7 Days to Die — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with 7 Days to Die.
'Night of the Dead' is an open-world game that combines elements of exploration, tower defense, survival, and crafting. Traverse a world dominated by zombies while collecting various resources and powerful equipment. Build a fortress to survive the hordes of zombies that swarm every night!
- 3
Zombie Survival Game Online
Single-player alternative to 7 Days to Die — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with 7 Days to Die.
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.
- 4
Colony Survival
Single-player alternative to 7 Days to Die — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with 7 Days to Die.
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
- 5
Rising World
Single-player alternative to 7 Days to Die — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with 7 Days to Die.
Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.
- 6
Creativerse
Single-player alternative to 7 Days to Die — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with 7 Days to Die.
A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.
- 7
Empyrion - Galactic Survival
Single-player alternative to 7 Days to Die — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with 7 Days to Die.
Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!
- 8
Soulmask
Single-player alternative to 7 Days to Die — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with 7 Days to Die.
Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.
- 9
Green Hell
Single-player alternative to 7 Days to Die — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with 7 Days to Die.
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
- 10
The Forest
Single-player alternative to 7 Days to Die — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with 7 Days to Die.
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.
- 11
Conan Exiles
Single-player alternative to 7 Days to Die — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with 7 Days to Die.
An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.
- 12
Enshrouded
Single-player alternative to 7 Days to Die — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with 7 Days to Die.
You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.
- 13
Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
Single-player alternative to 7 Days to Die — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with 7 Days to Die.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
- 14
Windrose
Single-player alternative to 7 Days to Die — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with 7 Days to Die.
Embark on a PvE survival adventure in the Age of Piracy. Fight on land and sea, solo or with friends. Build, craft and explore vast open world filled with dark secrets. Master soulslite combat and take on challenging bosses, command your ship and plunder unspoken treasures!