Single-player games like This War of Mine
Below are 22 single-player Steam games similar to This War of Mine, 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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Frostpunk
Single-player alternative to This War of Mine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with This War of Mine.
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
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Frostpunk 2
Single-player alternative to This War of Mine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with This War of Mine.
Develop, expand, and advance your city in a society survival game set 30 years after an apocalyptic blizzard ravaged Earth. In Frostpunk 2, you face not only the perils of never-ending winter, but also the powerful factions that watch your every step inside the Council Hall.
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Siege Survival: Gloria Victis
Single-player alternative to This War of Mine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with This War of Mine.
A medieval city under siege and a handful of civilians are all that keep the walls from falling. Mixing survival strategy and resource management, build your camp, craft supplies, and scavenge the occupied city to supply the last troops holding back the invaders.
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Sheltered
Single-player alternative to This War of Mine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with This War of Mine.
Sheltered is a deep and emotional survival management game. You take on the role of protecting four family members who, after a global apocalypse, have found their way to a deserted shelter.
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Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
Single-player alternative to This War of Mine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with This War of Mine.
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
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The Last Haven
Single-player alternative to This War of Mine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with This War of Mine.
The world after a nuclear war. Manage the settlement, learn technology, make decisions, produce weapons, ammunition, organize defense, raid for supplies on other areas, do not let residents die, survive the nuclear winter.
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Kenshi
Single-player alternative to This War of Mine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with This War of Mine.
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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Life in Bunker
Single-player alternative to This War of Mine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with This War of Mine.
You've been elected as the new Bunker Warden! Now you must take control over a group of fellow bunker residents and try to make them last until the surface becomes habitable.
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Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days
Single-player alternative to This War of Mine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with This War of Mine.
Texas, 1980. Walton City has fallen to a zombie outbreak. Lead a band of desperate survivors from refuge to refuge by scavenging, crafting, and fighting in a relentless struggle for survival. Plan wisely, stick together, and — above all — keep moving if you want to make it out alive.
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Subnautica
Single-player alternative to This War of Mine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with This War of Mine.
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
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7 Days to Die
Single-player alternative to This War of Mine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with This War of Mine.
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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State of Decay
Single-player alternative to This War of Mine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with This War of Mine.
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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Chernobylite Complete Edition
Single-player alternative to This War of Mine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with This War of Mine.
Chernobylite is a science-fiction survival horror RPG. Set in the hyper-realistic, 3D-scanned wasteland of Chernobyl’s Exclusion Zone, explore a non-linear storyline in your search to uncover the truth of your tortured past.
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Project Zomboid
Single-player alternative to This War of Mine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with This War of Mine.
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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60 Seconds!
Single-player alternative to This War of Mine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with This War of Mine.
60 Seconds! is a dark comedy atomic adventure of scavenge and survival. Collect supplies and rescue your family before the nuke hits. Stay alive in your fallout shelter. Make difficult decisions, ration food and hunt mutant cockroaches. And maybe survive. Or not.
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The Long Dark
Single-player alternative to This War of Mine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with This War of Mine.
THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.
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The Alters
Single-player alternative to This War of Mine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with This War of Mine.
Explore an emotional sci-fi game with a unique blend of survival, adventure, and base-building elements. Help Jan Dolski, the sole survivor of an ill-fated space expedition, create alternative versions of himself to escape a hostile planet and tackle personal turmoils with this unconventional crew.
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Anomaly: Warzone Earth
Single-player alternative to This War of Mine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with This War of Mine.
Lead an armored squad through the perils of this reversed tower defense action-strategy game!
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Anomaly 2
Single-player alternative to This War of Mine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with This War of Mine.
Anomaly 2 is a sequel to the critically acclaimed Anomaly Warzone Earth. Maintaining the core elements of the original, Anomaly 2 adds plenty of new features: unit morphing, over million tactical combinations, post-apo world and tower defense vs tower offense multiplayer mode.
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Anomaly Defenders
Single-player alternative to This War of Mine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with This War of Mine.
Anomaly Defenders is the closing installment of the Anomaly series. The original incarnation of the Tower Offense sub-genre had players controlling humans fighting alien invaders. Now, the tables have turned. The human counterattack is underway and the alien homeworld is under threat.
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Anomaly Korea
Single-player alternative to This War of Mine — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Exclusively brought to Steam for PC, Mac and Linux in Anomaly Bundle, Anomaly Korea is an expansion campaign to Anomaly Warzone Earth. The alien robots are back and this time they’ve got Korea in their sights. It’s your job to lead a squad into fierce fire-fights and fend off the alien invasion.
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Anomaly Warzone Earth Mobile Campaign
Single-player alternative to This War of Mine — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Anomaly Warzone Earth Mobile Campaign continues Steam's Anomaly Warzone Earth in an extra 15-level campaign. Originally released on mobile devices, the campaign is brought to Steam for PC, Mac and Linux exclusively in Anomaly Bundle. AWE Mobile Campaign turns tower defense on its head.