Single-player games like Grounded 2
Below are 20 single-player Steam games similar to Grounded 2, 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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Grounded
Single-player alternative to Grounded 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grounded 2.
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
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ARK: Survival Ascended
Single-player alternative to Grounded 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grounded 2.
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!
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The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™
Single-player alternative to Grounded 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grounded 2.
A survival crafting adventure set in the Fourth Age of Middle-earth. Lead the Dwarves to reclaim Moria - mine, build, and battle through procedurally generated depths alone or with up to 8 players in co-op. It is time to return to Moria!
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Tinkerlands
Single-player alternative to Grounded 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grounded 2.
Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!
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Don't Starve Together
Single-player alternative to Grounded 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grounded 2.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
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Smalland: Survive the Wilds
Single-player alternative to Grounded 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grounded 2.
Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.
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Subnautica 2
Single-player alternative to Grounded 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grounded 2.
Subnautica 2 is an underwater survival adventure set on an all-new alien world, developed by Unknown Worlds. Play alone or with friends in 4-player co-op. Adapt to survive by building custom bases and crafting tools. Explore the unknown to uncover the mysteries hidden within the depths.
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Soulmask
Single-player alternative to Grounded 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Grounded 2.
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.
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Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
Single-player alternative to Grounded 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Grounded 2.
A strategy/action RPG. Create a character, engage in diplomacy, craft, trade and conquer new lands in a vast medieval sandbox. Raise armies to lead into battle and command and fight alongside your troops in massive real-time battles using a deep but intuitive skill-based combat system.
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Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone
Single-player alternative to Grounded 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Grounded 2.
This adventure is set in the lands of the Forgotten Realms, where perilous evil and great heroes are enveloped by magic, prophecy and mystery. You control a party of three - Fighter, Sorcerer and Rogue - on a quest to right a great wrong and change the path of the future.
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Nine Nights
Single-player alternative to Grounded 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grounded 2.
《Nine Nights》is an indie hardcore action-adventure game. You will become the killer Ci Lang, escape and fight back in the crisis-ridden world of Nine Nights. You have to rely on the high martial arts skills tenacious fighting, struggling to lead to the road to revenge.
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Fate/Samurai Remnant
Single-player alternative to Grounded 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Grounded 2.
“Your wish shall perish...” A Holy Grail War begins in Edo Japan. A brand new Fate action RPG presented by TYPE-MOON and KOEI TECMO GAMES.
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MADNESS: Project Nexus
Single-player alternative to Grounded 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Grounded 2.
MADNESS: Project Nexus is a third-person Run n' Gun / Beat'Em Up filled with arcade-style action and button-mashing brutality. Gun your way through droves of bad guys in the Story Campaign, or build your perfect killing machine in the neverending onslaught of Arena Mode.
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RUNNING WITH RIFLES
Single-player alternative to Grounded 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Grounded 2.
RUNNING WITH RIFLES is a top-down tactical shooter with open world RPG elements. In RWR, you join the ranks of an army as a common soldier, just like the thousands around you.
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Fallout: New Vegas
Single-player alternative to Grounded 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Grounded 2.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
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South Park™: The Stick of Truth™
Single-player alternative to Grounded 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grounded 2.
From the perilous battlefields of the fourth-grade playground, a young hero will rise, destined to be South Park’s savior. From the creators of South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, comes an epic quest to become… cool. Introducing South Park™: The Stick of Truth™.For a thousand years, the battle has been waged.
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The Outer Worlds
Single-player alternative to Grounded 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The Outer Worlds is an award-winning single-player RPG from Obsidian Entertainment and Private Division. As you explore a space colony, the character you decide to become will determine how this player-driven story unfolds. In the colony's corporate equation, you are the unplanned variable.
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STAR WARS™ Knights of the Old Republic™ II - The Sith Lords™
Single-player alternative to Grounded 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
5 years after the events of the award winning original, the Sith are on the verge of crushing the Old Republic. As a lone Jedi, will you follow the light side or succumb to the dark?
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Pillars of Eternity
Single-player alternative to Grounded 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Prepare to be enchanted by a world where the choices you make and the paths you choose shape your destiny. Obsidian Entertainment, the developer of Fallout: New Vegas™ and South Park: The Stick of Truth™, together with Paradox Interactive is proud to present Pillars of Eternity.
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Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire
Single-player alternative to Grounded 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Patch 5.0 - Turn-based mode and The Ultimate challenge out now! Pursue a rogue god over land and sea in the sequel to the multi-award-winning RPG Pillars of Eternity. Captain your ship on a dangerous voyage of discovery across the vast unexplored archipelago region of the Deadfire.