Single-player games like My Wasteland Diary
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to My Wasteland Diary, 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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Hiraeth
Single-player alternative to My Wasteland Diary — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with My Wasteland Diary.
☵ HIRAETH is a sci-fi, first-person realistic survival game set on the desolate alien planet Ahra Prime, now offering an introduction to Story Mode with tasks and a multi‑stage quest. Explore on foot, by vehicle, or underwater as the planet tests you. Only the strong survive – but how long… and you?
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扶摇录
Single-player alternative to My Wasteland Diary — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with My Wasteland Diary.
扶摇录是一款开放世界沙盒仙侠RPG。在这里,你可以自由探索天地,揽胜九州大陆;亦可结交各路仙缘,与珍奇灵兽共修;还能建造洞府助力修行,开辟田园属地驻足休憩。擅用功法与法宝搭配,灵活应对战斗,不忘本心,潜心修炼,有朝一日,诸君定将登顶大乘之境。
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Mortal Frame: Reforged in Survival
Single-player alternative to My Wasteland Diary — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with My Wasteland Diary.
"Mortal Frame" is a sci-fi RPG combining open-world exploration and sandbox survival. The player explores a challenging world, gathers resources, crafts gear, captures AI companions, and upgrades modification chips to enhance their abilities, facing powerful foes and uncovering hidden mysteries.
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Annum Crossroads
Single-player alternative to My Wasteland Diary — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with My Wasteland Diary.
Navigate a vast wilderness while battling countless enemies.
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Renounced
Single-player alternative to My Wasteland Diary — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with My Wasteland Diary.
Immerse yourself in the dark and intense world of "Renounced", a hardcore survival RPG where each day is a struggle for survival in a post-apocalyptic world ravaged by nuclear war.
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Lorn Vale
Single-player alternative to My Wasteland Diary — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG and Early Access with My Wasteland Diary.
A free-roaming post-apocalyptic Survival Sandbox RPG in which you must weather the unrelenting brutality of a dying world. Shape your own unique journey, forge alliances. Make difficult choices in this systems-driven game full of procedurally generated events. Amidst the ruins, your story begins.
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Chernobylite 2: Exclusion Zone
Single-player alternative to My Wasteland Diary — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with My Wasteland Diary.
Explore the mysterious, beautiful, yet dark world of the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone in this post-apocalyptic action-RPG. Make your mark on this world, through your character development, choices and playstyle. But remember – everything has a price and consequences.
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Fargone
Single-player alternative to My Wasteland Diary — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG and Early Access with My Wasteland Diary.
Fargone is an RPG-based survival game with a strong focus on creating a living, breathing world through dynamic events, and NPC interactions. Set in a fictional land known only as The Barrens, you must survive by any means, whether that be alone or by allying yourself with a faction.