Single-player games like Canyons
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Canyons, 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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Ecliptica
Single-player alternative to Canyons — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Canyons.
Ecliptica is a first-person open-world colony survival simulator with a fully dynamic economy. Set on a hostile alien planet, you'll found corporations, fight for resources, and build a sustainable future—or be wiped out by ruthless nature, politics, and competition.
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Toypunk
Single-player alternative to Canyons — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Canyons.
A roguelite third-person puppet-shooter where you wield an entire toybox of absurd weaponry. Fight hordes of cotton-stuffed baddies across fantastical biomes in single-player or co-op. Experience crazy synergies and unlock more toys between runs!
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Autonomica
Single-player alternative to Canyons — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Canyons.
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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Smalland 2: Lost Realms
Single-player alternative to Canyons — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Canyons.
The Smallfolk are back with a massively expanded universe in this open-world survival adventure set on a tiny scale! Enjoy up to 10 player co-op where you craft weapons and armor, form companionships with creatures, build encampments, and discover strange new lands.
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Nested Lands
Single-player alternative to Canyons — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Canyons.
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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Belts of Iron
Single-player alternative to Canyons — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Canyons.
Explore, automate, and fight in this new open world factory automation game. Build factories connected by miles of conveyor belts. Manage power and fluid networks. Explore procedurally generated worlds filled with resources to harvest and hostile creatures to defeat. Play solo or online with friends
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Lugal: Bronze Age Survival Game
Single-player alternative to Canyons — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Canyons.
A survival craft game with RTS elements. Build a base, become the leader of a tribe → village → city → state. Conquer neighboring settlements and become king.
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Try to survive Today
Single-player alternative to Canyons — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Canyons.
Try to survive today - This is a fast-paced hybrid three-dimensional first- and third-person action game with the ability to switch to an isometric camera. Control your MECH or attack enemies as Zlata!
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Breathedge
Single-player alternative to Canyons — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Canyons.
Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.