Single-player games like Distant Garden
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Distant Garden, 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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friends world
Single-player alternative to Distant Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Distant Garden.
This is a voxel style sandbox game that focuses on survival. You can do anything inside and destroy any block. and cooperatively survive and fight with friends in a world. If you like playing Minecraft, this is a game you must not miss.
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Just Your Average Survival Game
Single-player alternative to Distant Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Distant Garden.
"Just Your Average Survival Game" is an experience where you explore an island with a finite amount of resources. Beware of the dark past of the island.
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Evospace
Single-player alternative to Distant Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Distant Garden.
Contribute to the colonization of the universe. Get and process resources, develop your technologies. Achieve complete automation and build a portal to include another planet in the chain of worlds.
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Realmcraft VR
Single-player alternative to Distant Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Distant Garden.
RealmCraft is an immersive 3D sandbox VR adventure in a blocky world, blending creativity and survival. Explore a vast procedurally generated open world, mine resources, craft tools, and build anything. Fight hostile mobs, find treasures, and enjoy smooth, intuitive VR gameplay.
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Luminids
Single-player alternative to Distant Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Distant Garden.
Start and evolve a colony of Luminids, little creatures with personalities and needs of their own. Shape the land and watch them gather, build, and grow across forests, mountains, deserts, and frozen lands. Plan from above then step into first person to explore the world you built together.
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Escape The Pacific
Single-player alternative to Distant Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Distant Garden.
Raw, real survival in the Pacific. Build a modular floating base. Master realistic sailing mechanics. Face challenging Pacific-like weather & seasons. Hunt, craft, build & navigate using Sun Dial, Sextant & Triangulation. Explore an endless island cluster-based world. Simulate real life scenarios!
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Icaria
Single-player alternative to Distant Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Distant Garden.
Icaria is a robot colony builder where everything can be programmed. Build factories, design logistic networks, terraform the landscape, and explore an unknown alien world.
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FOUNDRY
Single-player alternative to Distant Garden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Distant Garden.
Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.