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Single-player games like From Dust

Below are 24 single-player Steam games similar to From Dust, 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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    Dimensional Craft — Steam game cover

    Dimensional Craft

    Single-player alternative to From Dust — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with From Dust.

    This is an anime-style sandbox game where you can engage in highly free building and creation, designing your own storylines and quests.

    2026ActionIndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Solar 2 — Steam game cover

    Solar 2

    Single-player alternative to From Dust — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with From Dust.

    Dynamic abstract sandbox universe. Changes and evolves as you do.

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Deus Novum — Steam game cover

    Deus Novum

    Single-player alternative to From Dust — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with From Dust.

    Deus Novum is the god game you've been waiting for. Cast miracles with the power of your villager's prayer, train your creature to behave or misbehave, build elaborate villages, and fight back against the forces of evil.

    2022StrategyIndieAdventure19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Genesis of a Small God — Steam game cover

    Genesis of a Small God

    Single-player alternative to From Dust — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with From Dust.

    You have awoken as a small god. As you accumulate the faith and souls of your followers, you will learn incredible new abilities. Protect, guide your people and smite any threats that may arise. The fate of your world is in your hands.

    2024ActionStrategyIndie17.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Marble World — Steam game cover

    Marble World

    Single-player alternative to From Dust — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with From Dust.

    Marble World is a physics sandbox simulator with marbles. Create your own marble races, runs and machines. Customize a variety of tracks, decorations and marbles to create a beautiful world.

    2022IndieSimulationCasual19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Pandora's Toybox — Steam game cover

    Pandora's Toybox

    Single-player alternative to From Dust — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with From Dust.

    Become a God, build a civilization. In this dynamic Roguelite God Simulator, guide human civilization on a procedurally generated pixel world. Watch your people grow, defend them against heretics, and build an immortal legacy.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Sapiens — Steam game cover

    Sapiens

    Single-player alternative to From Dust — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with From Dust.

    Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation24.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Fata Deum - The God Sim — Steam game cover

    Fata Deum - The God Sim

    Single-player alternative to From Dust — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with From Dust.

    Inspired by the god games of old, Fata Deum lets you mold settlements and townsfolk in your image. Will you raise the settlements to splendor, or spur them on to violent debauchery and demons? Watch as a living world grows under your whims.

    2025StrategySimulationRPG29.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Black & White — Steam game cover

    Black & White

    Single-player alternative to From Dust — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with From Dust.

    "Black & White" is a dystopian visual novel + war chess game: black and white, sensibility and reason, freedom and order: follow your beliefs and join your camp.

    2023StrategyIndieAdventure14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Populous™ — Steam game cover

    Populous™

    Single-player alternative to From Dust — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    Move mountains, part the seas, and lead mortal armies to victory in Populous. Take on the powers of a mighty deity and battle for supremacy against an enemy god, using thoughtful strategy to shape the isometric world and the fate of its people.

    2024StrategyRPG0.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Populous™: The Beginning — Steam game cover

    Populous™: The Beginning

    Single-player alternative to From Dust — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    In the third part of the Populous series, you control your shaman and the tribe of her followers in a difficult quest to conquer all 25 planets of a star system and ascend to godhood.

    2024StrategyRPG0.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Godus — Steam game cover

    Godus

    Single-player alternative to From Dust — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with From Dust.

    If you’ve not had the chance to play our delightful, Zen-like re-genesis of the god game on Windows PC or Mac OS X, there’s never been a better time to do so! Now more than ever, as we’re currently making full use of our opt-in branch by running a rapid build release schedule during our PC-focused sprint.

    2014StrategyIndieSimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Paper Beast — Steam game cover

    Paper Beast

    Single-player alternative to From Dust — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with From Dust.

    An exploration and adventure game about wildlife sprung from the depths of the internet. An unknown power seems to upset its balance. Join forces with exotic creatures to unravel the mysteries of this universe.

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Simmiland — Steam game cover

    Simmiland

    Single-player alternative to From Dust — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with From Dust.

    Simmiland is a god-like card game. In this game you indirectly influence a small civilization by manipulating their surroundings by playing cards 🃏🃏🃏 Playing cards on different biomes and objects will result in different findings. The way you play the game will define how mankind will develop!

    2018IndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Tidal Tribe — Steam game cover

    Tidal Tribe

    Single-player alternative to From Dust — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with From Dust.

    Tidal Tribe is a relaxing god game that gives you the power to shape the terrain. Raise and lower the land to protect your villages from waves and floods, all while using that very same water to build lakes and rivers, turning the desert land into a lively forest of trees and bushes.

    2019IndieSimulation14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Teardown — Steam game cover

    Teardown

    Single-player alternative to From Dust — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with From Dust.

    Prepare the perfect heist in a fully destructible, simulated voxel world. Tear down walls with vehicles or use explosives to create your own shortcuts. Shape the environment to your advantage in the most creative ways you can imagine. Play solo or with up to 12 players in multiplayer.

    2022ActionStrategyIndie29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Assassin's Creed® Odyssey — Steam game cover

    Assassin's Creed® Odyssey

    Single-player alternative to From Dust — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with From Dust.

    In this action-adventure game, set sail for Ancient Greece to alter its fate. Fight in visceral battles on land and sea, shape your destiny from outcast to legend, and uncover secrets of your past.

    2018ActionAdventureRPG59.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon® Wildlands — Steam game cover

    Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon® Wildlands

    Single-player alternative to From Dust — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with From Dust.

    Create a team with up to 3 friends in Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon® Wildlands and enjoy the ultimate military shooter experience set in a massive, dangerous, and responsive open world.

    2017ActionAdventure49.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Assassin’s Creed Shadows — Steam game cover

    Assassin’s Creed Shadows

    Single-player alternative to From Dust — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with From Dust.

    Experience an epic action-adventure story set in feudal Japan! Become a lethal shinobi assassin and powerful legendary samurai as you explore a beautiful open world in a time of chaos.

    2025ActionAdventureRPG69.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Steep™ — Steam game cover

    Steep™

    Single-player alternative to From Dust — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    Ride a massive open world across the Alps, where the powder is always fresh and the run never ends. Defy and master the mountain alone or with friends on skis, wingsuits, snowboards and paragliders. Record and share your best stunts.

    2016ActionSports29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Valiant Hearts: The Great War™ / Soldats Inconnus : Mémoires de la Grande Guerre™ — Steam game cover

    Valiant Hearts: The Great War™ / Soldats Inconnus : Mémoires de la Grande Guerre™

    Single-player alternative to From Dust — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with From Dust.

    Valiant Hearts : The Great War is the story of 4 crossed destinies and a broken love in a world torn apart. Dive into a 2D animated comic book adventure, mixing exploration, action and puzzles. Lost in the middle of the trenches, play as each of the 4 strangers, relive the War and help a young German soldier find his love.

    2014Adventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora™ — Steam game cover

    Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora™

    Single-player alternative to From Dust — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with From Dust.

    Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora™ is a third and first-person action-adventure game set in the Western Frontier. Reconnect with your lost heritage and discover what it means to be Na'vi.

    2024ActionAdventure29.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Rayman® Legends — Steam game cover

    Rayman® Legends

    Single-player alternative to From Dust — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with From Dust.

    Michel Ancel, the celebrated creator of Rayman®, Beyond Good & Evil®, and the Raving Rabbids®, returns to unleash his innovative creativity on this new entry into the Rayman® franchise.When Rayman, Globox, and the Teensies discover a mysterious tent filled with captivating paintings, they are suddenly transported to a series of...

    2013ActionAdventure29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Prince of Persia The Lost Crown — Steam game cover

    Prince of Persia The Lost Crown

    Single-player alternative to From Dust — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with From Dust.

    Dash into a stylish and thrilling action-adventure platformer set in a mythological Persian world where the boundaries of time and space are yours to manipulate.

    2024ActionAdventure29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →