Single-player games like The Long Dark
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to The Long Dark, 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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Don't Starve
Single-player alternative to The Long Dark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Long Dark.
Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.
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Project Zomboid
Single-player alternative to The Long Dark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Long Dark.
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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Subnautica
Single-player alternative to The Long Dark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Long Dark.
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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Valheim
Single-player alternative to The Long Dark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Long Dark.
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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The Forest
Single-player alternative to The Long Dark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Long Dark.
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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Sons Of The Forest
Single-player alternative to The Long Dark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Long Dark.
Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.
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7 Days to Die
Single-player alternative to The Long Dark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Long Dark.
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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Miasmata
Single-player alternative to The Long Dark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Long Dark.
Miasmata is a first-person survival/adventure game, developed from the ground-up by brothers Joe and Bob Johnson. You play as Robert Hughes, a plague-stricken scientist on a journey to discover a cure. Your adventure begins on the shores of a remote and mysterious island.
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Kenshi
Single-player alternative to The Long Dark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Long Dark.
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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Green Hell
Single-player alternative to The Long Dark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Long Dark.
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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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Single-player alternative to The Long Dark — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
EPIC FANTASY REBORN The next chapter in the highly anticipated Elder Scrolls saga arrives from the makers of the 2006 and 2008 Games of the Year, Bethesda Game Studios. Skyrim reimagines and revolutionizes the open-world fantasy epic, bringing to life a complete virtual world open for you to explore any way you choose.
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The Walking Dead
Single-player alternative to The Long Dark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Long Dark.
A five-part adventure horror series set in the same universe as Robert Kirkman’s award-winning comic book series.
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Astalon: Tears of the Earth
Single-player alternative to The Long Dark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Long Dark.
Uphold your pact with the Titan of Death, Epimetheus! Fight, climb and solve your way through a twisted tower as three unique adventurers, on a mission to save their village from impending doom!
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Jusant
Single-player alternative to The Long Dark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Long Dark.
Enjoy meditative vibes in Jusant, an action-puzzle climbing game. Scale an immeasurably tall tower and ascend to new heights alongside your watery companion. Master your climbing tools, find your way up through diverse biomes, and piece together the tower’s past.
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ASTRONEER
Single-player alternative to The Long Dark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Long Dark.
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.