Single-player games like Darkout
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Darkout, 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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Edge of Space
Single-player alternative to Darkout — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Darkout.
Suit up as an operative of the Ark Corporation, sent to the farthest reaches of the universe in search of habitable planets to terraform. However, after the long space journey you awaken from cryosleep to find that your ship has gone way off course and is disabled near a strange new world.
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Signs of Life
Single-player alternative to Darkout — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Darkout.
Signs of Life is a sci-fi survival sandbox platformer with a combination of procedurally generated and hand-crafted content. You'll explore mysterious locations, Mine blocks for resources, and meet strange (and some familiar) creatures, some of which don't even want to kill you and eat your corpse.
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StarDune
Single-player alternative to Darkout — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Darkout.
Build, Fly, and Survive. StarDune combines tactile, modular construction with seamless space travel. Reshape vibrant voxel planets, automate your outposts, and explore a procedurally generated solar system alone or with friends in a world that’s yours to mold.
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No Man's Sky
Single-player alternative to Darkout — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Darkout.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
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SquareWorld Unpixeled
Single-player alternative to Darkout — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Darkout.
Explore a randomly generated universe full of unique planets! Build whatever comes into your mind with hundreds of blocks available! Mine for precious treasures and dungeons! Play alone or with friends, create or destroy, explore or build up a home. Choose your way of playing.
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XYLITH - Hostile Planet
Single-player alternative to Darkout — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Darkout.
In the vast subterranean world of Eldriss recently discovered monoliths are fueling more than just the humans fears. Sent by Nimbus you must investigate the mysterious Xylith and use any means necessary to quell an alien uprising.
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Remains
Single-player alternative to Darkout — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Darkout.
Remains - survival in outer space orbiting the planet. Explore the area. Find a way to restore oxygen. Create tools for your needs. Beware of the dangers of outer space. Build your shelter in orbit and try not to die!
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Space Trash Scavenger
Single-player alternative to Darkout — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Darkout.
Grab your jetpack and explore procedural asteroid fields, derelict spaceships and abandoned outposts. Build and automate your Space Rig to process scavenged trash. Craft, trade and fight your way home in this interstellar, open-world survival sandbox.
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Terraria
Single-player alternative to Darkout — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Darkout.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
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Windforge
Single-player alternative to Darkout — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Darkout.
WindForge is a side-scrolling block-building game where you explore hostile skies in an ever-changing Steampunk world. Everything you see can be created or destroyed, creating an RPG without barriers that rewards creative problem solving and improvisation.
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Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
Single-player alternative to Darkout — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Darkout.
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.