Single-player games like Ylands
Below are 20 single-player Steam games similar to Ylands, 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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How to Survive 2
Single-player alternative to Ylands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Ylands.
Dead or Alive? Make up your mind, stranger. We don’t like that undead business here in Louisiana…Survive solo or with friends as you look to fulfill your basic needs of food, water and shelter, crafting your own tools and weapons while you secure your camp and face flesh hungry zombies.
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Osiris: New Dawn
Single-player alternative to Ylands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Ylands.
Osiris: New Dawn is an unforgiving near future space survival game with a cinematic feel and elements of horror. Play as a Mission Specialist in single or multiplayer to build your planetary base, pilotable vehicles, and controllable drones as you explore a dangerous solar system far from Earth.
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Far Lands
Single-player alternative to Ylands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Ylands.
Far Lands is an open-world survival game. Fight mercenaries, steal their loot and vehicles. Build and defend your base from zombies. Gather resources, craft better gear and loot different points of interest. Want to play with friends? Join them on Co-op!
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Subsistence
Single-player alternative to Ylands — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).
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Eco
Single-player alternative to Ylands — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Build a civilization of real people, working together to advance society and stop a meteor, all without destroying the ecosystem in the process.
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Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to Ylands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Ylands.
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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ASTRONEER
Single-player alternative to Ylands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Ylands.
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.
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Green Hell
Single-player alternative to Ylands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Ylands.
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
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Valheim
Single-player alternative to Ylands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Ylands.
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
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The Forest
Single-player alternative to Ylands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Ylands.
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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Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
Single-player alternative to Ylands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Ylands.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
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Totally Accurate Battle Simulator
Single-player alternative to Ylands — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Be the leader of wobblers from ancient lands, spooky places, and fantasy worlds. Watch them fight in simulations made with the wobbliest physics system ever created, make your own wobblers in the unit creator and send your army off to fight your friends in multiplayer.
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ARK Park
Single-player alternative to Ylands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Ylands.
In ARK Park, engage in close encounters with primal species through a series of theme park attractions. Enter by yourself or with a group of adventurous friends, and witness dinosaurs roaming in the wild with your own eyes!
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Thief of Thieves
Single-player alternative to Ylands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Ylands.
In Thief of Thieves you play as a cat burglar using stealth, social engineering and team members to pull off some high profile heists across the world. Based on the comic book series by Robert Kirkman, it’s time for Celia to make the leap from apprentice to master.
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Arma 3
Single-player alternative to Ylands — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Experience true combat gameplay in a massive military sandbox. Deploy with a wide variety of single- and multiplayer content, a massive arsenal of modern weapons and vehicles, and limitless opportunities for content creation. Authentic, diverse, open - Arma 3 sends you to war.
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Arma Reforger
Single-player alternative to Ylands — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Engage in massive combined arms battles, create and curate combat missions in real time, and shape your experience with endless community mods. Deploy into the Cold War and experience the most authentic and immersive military sandbox ever created.
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Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead
Single-player alternative to Ylands — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Three years after the conflict in Chernarus, portrayed in the original Arma 2, a new flashpoint explodes in the Green Sea Region. Coalition forces led by the US Army are deployed to Takistan to quickly restore peace and prevent further civilian casualties.
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ARMA: Cold War Assault
Single-player alternative to Ylands — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Bohemia Interactive's debut game published by Codemasters as Operation Flashpoint in 2001, became genre-defining combat military simulation and the No. 1 bestselling PC game around the world and has won many international awards, including “Game of The Year” and “Best Action Game”. Over 2 million copies have been sold since its release.
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Arma 2
Single-player alternative to Ylands — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Building on 10 years of constant engine development, ARMA II boasts the most realistic combat environment in the world. It models real world ballistics & round deflection, materials penetration, features a realtime day/night cycle and dynamic wind, weather and environmental effects.
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Take On Mars
Single-player alternative to Ylands — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Take On Mars places you right in the middle of mankind’s most exciting undertaking. Start out in the seat of a rover operator, finish as the first human to have ever set foot on the Red Planet.