Single-player games like Canyons
Below are 10 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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Space
Single-player alternative to Canyons — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Canyons.
Stranded on a hostile alien world, you must gather resources, craft tools, and automate production to survive. Build a base, fend off deadly wildlife, and uncover ancient secrets in this immersive sci-fi survival adventure. Will you conquer the planet or succumb to its perils?
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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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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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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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M.E.C.H.A.: Memory Erasure Control of Hover Attractor
Single-player alternative to Canyons — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Canyons.
M.E.C.H.A. is an indie survival shooter — in a dystopian cyberpunk world! Scavenge for resources, build your relationship with Rika, and upgrade your gear in the world of androids. Experience the gameplay mix of dating simulator and bloody action with all the consequences.
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Autonomica
Single-player alternative to Canyons — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Canyons.
A survival automation game set in an alternate 1980s. Build supply chains where farming fuels chemistry and mining drives manufacturing. Rebuild a world fractured by failed time experiments - solo or co-op. Launch time-jump extractions into unstable futures for tech that shouldn't exist yet.
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Mulerun – Retro Bootlegger Simulator
Single-player alternative to Canyons — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Canyons.
Distill moonshine, run a farm, and fly contraband for two masters who must never meet. The CIA owns you. The cartel pays you. A first-person bootlegger sim on a 1970s tropical island — solo or in 4-player online co-op.
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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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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.
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Breathedge 2
Single-player alternative to Canyons — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Canyons.
Survive on the edge of space! Craft and upgrade tools, scavenge resources, and save a galaxy gone completely off the rails. Can Ordinary Man save the galaxy with the help of the immortal Chicken and some duct tape?