Single-player games like XenoHaven
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to XenoHaven, 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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Tinkerlands
Single-player alternative to XenoHaven — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with XenoHaven.
Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!
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ARK: Survival Ascended
Single-player alternative to XenoHaven — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with XenoHaven.
ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!
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Honeycomb: The World Beyond
Single-player alternative to XenoHaven — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with XenoHaven.
Honeycomb: The World Beyond is a sci-fi survival adventure set on the vibrant alien planet of Sota7. Adapt by building your base and crafting essential tools. Explore diverse biomes and use your bioengineering experience to uncover mysteries and secure humanity's future.
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Zombie Survival Game Online
Single-player alternative to XenoHaven — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with XenoHaven.
Zombie Survival Game Online is an open-world, post-apocalyptic, looter shooter. Craft, quest, explore, build, and fight for survival. Parkour up a mountainside, ramp a truck over a horde, and grab a gasmask to explore the sewers. Can you survive? Doubtful.
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Necesse
Single-player alternative to XenoHaven — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with XenoHaven.
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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CryoFall
Single-player alternative to XenoHaven — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with XenoHaven.
CryoFall is a sci-fi colony simulation survival game set on a forgotten planet in a distant future. Master technology, agriculture, trading, industry, cybernetics, exploration, and more!
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Planetaries
Single-player alternative to XenoHaven — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with XenoHaven.
Experience a vast Sci-fi open-world survival TD game set on a distant planet deep in the universe. Craft, build, mine, trade, explore, and survive in this alien world. Collect Data and defend against waves of enemies seeking to banish you. Enjoy the adventure in Singleplayer or Multiplayer.
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Good Heavens!
Single-player alternative to XenoHaven — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with XenoHaven.
Good Heavens! is an open-world crafting and building RPG for solo and online co-op up to 8 players. Explore mysterious biomes, build your base, master six distinct tech trees, rebuild fallen cities, and help a clumsy God restore his world on the brink of collapse.