Single-player games like Grounded 2
Below are 22 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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Wildsite
Single-player alternative to Grounded 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grounded 2.
Crash-land on a sci-fi planet plagued by toxic plasma storms. Alongside Bob, your sarcastic AI companion, build and shrink your base to move it anywhere. Fight with primitive or plasma weapons in this survival-craft adventure solo or with up to 3 friends in online co-op!
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Whisper of the Swallows
Single-player alternative to Grounded 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grounded 2.
Brave a savage, unforgiving procedurally generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark will hunt you down. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to turn a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.
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StarRupture
Single-player alternative to Grounded 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grounded 2.
StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.
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Nested Lands
Single-player alternative to Grounded 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grounded 2.
Nested Lands is a ruthless medieval RPG game featuring in-depth village building, large-scale social management and combats. Gather survivors, build a settlement, craft, master your skills, survive, and endure alone or in online co-op.
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Windrose
Single-player alternative to Grounded 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grounded 2.
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!
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Terraria
Single-player alternative to Grounded 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grounded 2.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
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Dune: Awakening
Single-player alternative to Grounded 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grounded 2.
Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival RPG where you can fully immerse yourself in the epic world of Dune. Alone or with friends, explore a vast open world Arrakis, survive the sandworms, build a home, craft an ornithopter, and unravel the mystery of the missing Fremen.
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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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ASKA
Single-player alternative to Grounded 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Early Access with Grounded 2.
A new Viking age dawns with you at its helm. Forge a thriving colony from nothing in this mythic open-world survival sim. Earn the gods' favor and survive in a land ruled by ancient terrors and unforgiving seasons. Rally unique villagers, expand your settlement and defend your tribe - solo or co-op!
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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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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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Mount & Blade
Single-player alternative to Grounded 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Calradia is a land at war, offering great riches and even greater dangers to adventurers and mercenaries that flock to shed their blood on its soil. With courage and a strong sword, an unknown stranger can make a name as a warrior. Free-form sand-box gameplay.
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LEGO® The Lord of the Rings™
Single-player alternative to Grounded 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grounded 2.
Based on The Lord of the Rings motion picture trilogy, LEGO® The Lord of the Rings follows the original story-lines of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, taking players through the epic story events re-imagined with the humor and endl
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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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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.
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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!