Single-player games like Polygon Survival
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Polygon Survival, 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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State of Decay
Single-player alternative to Polygon Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Simulation with Polygon Survival.
The end is here. Life as you knew it has gone to hell after the mother of all zombie outbreaks. Now you and the few scattered survivors must band together to survive and rebuild in a 3rd-person action game set in a dynamic open world.
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The Forest
Single-player alternative to Polygon Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Polygon Survival.
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 Polygon Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Polygon Survival.
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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How to Survive 2
Single-player alternative to Polygon Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Polygon Survival.
Dead or Alive? Make up your mind, stranger. We don’t like that undead business here in Louisiana…Survive solo or with friends as you look to fulfill your basic needs of food, water and shelter, crafting your own tools and weapons while you secure your camp and face flesh hungry zombies.
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DeadPoly
Single-player alternative to Polygon Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Polygon Survival.
DeadPoly is a polygon arcade zombie survival looter shooter with base building, crafting, scavenging, leveling, questing, and more, but your only goal is survival, everything else is optional.
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7 Days to Die
Single-player alternative to Polygon Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Polygon Survival.
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
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Kenshi
Single-player alternative to Polygon Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Polygon Survival.
A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.
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Project Zomboid
Single-player alternative to Polygon Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Polygon Survival.
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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СИМУЛЯТОР ЛАЗАНЬЯ ПО ЗАБРОШКАМ
Single-player alternative to Polygon Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Polygon Survival.
At its core, it's not really a game. Rather, a short tour of the authentic post-Soviet courtyard, which has long been abandoned by local residents.
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THE MEME HUNTER
Single-player alternative to Polygon Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Polygon Survival.
THE MEME HUNTER is a dynamic first–person shooter in which you will exterminate crowds of evil memes. They're everywhere. They're out for your blood. They will follow you wherever you go…
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OVERTOP
Single-player alternative to Polygon Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Polygon Survival.
There is only one rule – the higher you rise, the more painful it is to fall.
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T-Rex Dinosaur Game
Single-player alternative to Polygon Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Polygon Survival.
Enjoy the Tyrannosaurus Rex game with beautiful 3D graphics and in high resolution.
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In The Gym (Memes Horror Game)
Single-player alternative to Polygon Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Polygon Survival.
Emotional horror about survival in a gym.
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Nextbots In The Backrooms
Single-player alternative to Polygon Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Polygon Survival.
They only look ridiculous at first glance, but they're not! Run. Don't stop, don't try to hide, just run!
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TV Head: Eight Pages
Single-player alternative to Polygon Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Polygon Survival.
You find yourself all alone in the middle of a dark forest. You have no weapons and no place to wait for help. The dim flashlight that lights the way is your only friend. Your goal is to explore the location to find eight pages and leave this frightening place.
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Backrooms Doors
Single-player alternative to Polygon Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Polygon Survival.
Backrooms Doors - This is an atmospheric first-person horror game. Explore spaces that can't exist in the real world and find your way out before the entities find you.