Single-player games like Scavland
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Scavland, 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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Master Π
Single-player alternative to Scavland — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Scavland.
A fast-paced action shooter where dual-pistol combat, resource-driven abilities, and rhythm-based boss encounters combine into a skill-focused combat experience set in a post-apocalyptic world.
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Just Madness: Earth Apocalypse 1979
Single-player alternative to Scavland — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Scavland.
The world ended. The madness began. As Max, survive a brutal, radioactive wasteland to save your kidnapped daughter from a ruthless gang. Fight radiation, explore a dangerous open world in 1st/3rd person, and make choices that shape your destiny in this dark RPG survival.
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DDoD
Single-player alternative to Scavland — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Scavland.
DDoD is a solo and co-op action-shooter RPG with gunplay that feels right and charming mutants you’ll love, or hate. Explore a massive open world above and underground. Don’t get charmed; get to work and cleanse the Purple Lands!
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GRIMLIFE
Single-player alternative to Scavland — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scavland.
GRIMLIFE - An open-world survival RPG set in a world ruled by the undead. Befriend fellow survivors as you search for supplies, fight through hordes of infected, and navigate a treacherous world.
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Atomic Exile
Single-player alternative to Scavland — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Scavland.
Atomic Exile is a top down post-apocalyptic extraction shooter set in the desert wastelands of near future America. You will visit enclaves, explore devastated ruins and encounter NPCs such as other survivors, raiders, mutated beasts and rogue machines.
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ZERO Sievert
Single-player alternative to Scavland — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Scavland.
Now with over 600,000 copies sold, ZERO Sievert is a tense top-down extraction shooter that challenges you to scavenge a procedurally-generated wasteland, loot gear, and explore what’s left of a devastated world. When the odds are stacked against you, you’ll need to do more than just survive...
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SurrounDead
Single-player alternative to Scavland — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Scavland.
SurrounDead is an open world survival game. Taking place in a world ravaged by an apocalyptic catastrophe. The dead reign free and will stop at nothing to kill you.
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Insect Swarm
Single-player alternative to Scavland — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Scavland.
The insect swarm is a swarm consists of millions of alien insects, and you, as the only survival on this barren planet, will have to fight against them dauntlessly. Good luck!