Single-player games like Category 6
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Category 6, 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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The Forest
Single-player alternative to Category 6 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Category 6.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
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The Highrise
Single-player alternative to Category 6 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Category 6.
THE HIGHRISE is a first-person survival game set in a high-rise building that has been sealed off by an alien monster invasion. Gather resources to make fighting weapons and survival tools. You must find and send a rescue signal at the end of your desperate survival.
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The Long Dark
Single-player alternative to Category 6 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Category 6.
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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Urge
Single-player alternative to Category 6 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Category 6.
Fight, build, explore, survive, while the dynamic player-caused hazardous fog is slowly changing the rules of the world around you.
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Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to Category 6 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Category 6.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
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KeepUp Survival
Single-player alternative to Category 6 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Category 6.
KeepUp Survival is an open base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and unfold your own story on a mysterious island.
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PolyZ
Single-player alternative to Category 6 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Category 6.
Imagine DayZ mixed with Escape From Tarkov, but in Low Poly. A persistent world survival game featuring PvP, PvE, crafting, base-building, and zombies infected with a contagious virus.
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Project Zomboid
Single-player alternative to Category 6 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Category 6.
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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President Pig
Single-player alternative to Category 6 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Category 6.
Old school turn based political RPG with loads of crude humor and action. President Drumph is an evil dictator who has taken over the world and you must join The Resistance and stop him before everyone is doomed.
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Humanity Lost
Single-player alternative to Category 6 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Category 6.
Will you save humanity? You are on a mission to find a new planet for humans to inhabit. In this story driven FPS space opera you will explore open world planets, find weapons, upgrade your character, and befriend alien species.
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Gander National Park
Single-player alternative to Category 6 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Category 6.
Get lost in the vast wilderness of Gander National Park. In this hiking simulator you can explore and unravel the park's mysteries, or just enjoy a relaxing hike. Make friends and help other hikers while earning karma points to determine your hike's ending.