Single-player games like Salt
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Salt, 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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Salt 2: Shores of Gold
Single-player alternative to Salt — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Salt.
Salt 2 is a pirate-themed open world adventure focused on exploration, crafting, and survival. Play solo or with up to 5 friends, sailing the sea with your ship as a mobile base. Discover islands full of quests, towns, caves, and secrets. Level up, craft gear, hunt, fish, and customize your ship.
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Green Hell
Single-player alternative to Salt — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Salt.
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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Force of Nature
Single-player alternative to Salt — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Salt.
Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres
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Planet Explorers
Single-player alternative to Salt — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Salt.
Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.
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Osiris: New Dawn
Single-player alternative to Salt — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Salt.
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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Out of Reach
Single-player alternative to Salt — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Salt.
You’re a castaway stranded in the middle of nowhere. Storm is gone, the worst certainly not. Look for food and resources, craft gear, make shelters. These are the basics, you need much more to stay alive on this cut-off-the-world, yet not desert island. Build & burn, sail & explore, be Out of Reach!
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Savage Lands
Single-player alternative to Salt — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Salt.
Your fight for survival begins on the frozen shores of Tarvhas, where bitter cold and vicious creatures conspire to defeat the unprepared. Uncover the land’s dark history as you and fellow explorers traverse an unforgiving and hostile world to tame the Savage Lands.
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Necesse
Single-player alternative to Salt — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Salt.
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
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Thief of Thieves
Single-player alternative to Salt — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Salt.
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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Raft
Single-player alternative to Salt — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Salt.
Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!
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Wild West and Wizards
Single-player alternative to Salt — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Salt.
Wild West and Wizards is an open world exploration RPG set in a re-imagined new frontier. Pick a class and level up unlocking abilities and exploring a world filled with quests, loot, outlaws, bosses, spells, caves, towns, and other mysterious places.