Single-player games like Ylands
Below are 17 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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The Survivalists
Single-player alternative to Ylands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Casual with Ylands.
A living world full of surprises, secrets and danger awaits in The Survivalists, an adventure-filled survival sandbox set in The Escapists universe. Explore, build, craft and even train monkeys with up to three friends in a desperate bid to survive. Have you got what it takes to be a Survivalist?
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Creativerse
Single-player alternative to Ylands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Ylands.
A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.
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Valheim
Single-player alternative to Ylands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Ylands.
A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
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Subnautica
Single-player alternative to Ylands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Ylands.
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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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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Salt
Single-player alternative to Ylands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Ylands.
Salt is an open world exploration game where you sail from island to island looking for loot and new discoveries! Relax and explore at your own pace, picking a direction and setting sail across a vast ocean filled with quests, merchants, ruins, pirates, and other mysterious places.
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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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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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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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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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Terraria
Single-player alternative to Ylands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Ylands.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
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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.