Single-player games like Nested Lands
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Nested Lands, 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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Bellwright
Single-player alternative to Nested Lands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Simulation with Nested Lands.
Establish and expand your own settlements, liberate the land and assist its villagers, and recruit others to your cause while learning more about a life you had to leave behind. Command your forces, prove your valor through combat, and cement yourself as the hero of your people.
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Primal Survival Wars
Single-player alternative to Nested Lands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nested Lands.
Build your own Settlement of Ancient People. Survive, Hunt, Gather, Craft Tools, Fight, Research new technologies and face the challenges that the environment throws at you.
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Sengoku Dynasty
Single-player alternative to Nested Lands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Nested Lands.
Sengoku Dynasty is the ultimate feudal Japan experience: build villages, grow your community, and shape the open world through combat or economy. The choice is yours alone - or that of up to 4 players in multiplayer co-op!
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Autonomica
Single-player alternative to Nested Lands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nested Lands.
Autonomica is an open-world survival automation game driven by time travel. Explore a fractured island, build automated farms and machinery, and travel into the future to extract rare technology and resources. Work with surviving engineers to unravel temporal anomalies and capture dangerous Phantoms
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Ars Notoria
Single-player alternative to Nested Lands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Nested Lands.
Ars Notoria is an open-world survival crafting game set in a rich fantasy world. Learn six distinct schools of magic, gather resources, build your base, expand your influence, and stand against the ever-shifting threat of the Enthralled. You are the one destined to change the kingdom.
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The Forest
Single-player alternative to Nested Lands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nested Lands.
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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Project Zomboid
Single-player alternative to Nested Lands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Nested Lands.
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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ENDALOR
Single-player alternative to Nested Lands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nested Lands.
An immersive medieval dark fantasy survival game with RPG elements for 1-4 players. Set in a hand crafted open world. Explore, survive, build, craft, fight and conquer your way through the dark, brutal and mysterious lands.
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Medieval Dynasty
Single-player alternative to Nested Lands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nested Lands.
Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.
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Noble Legacy
Single-player alternative to Nested Lands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and RPG with Nested Lands.
Noble Legacy is a medieval city-builder in which you rule the lands as a Noble. Build your kingdom, manage your people, defend your realm, and master a deep economy, alone or with friends in co-op, every decision is yours. What kind of ruler will you be?
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Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
Single-player alternative to Nested Lands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Nested Lands.
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.
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Spirit of the Island
Single-player alternative to Nested Lands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Nested Lands.
A beautiful Life Sim Sandbox RPG with Cross-Platform Online COOP set on a tropical Archipelago. Build your farm, grow crops and animals, craft various items, cook dishes, gather resources, build shops and museum to attract visitors, and turn a desolate Island into a prosperous tourist destination!