Single-player games like Terra Trials
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Terra Trials, 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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Sky Scaffold
Single-player alternative to Terra Trials — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Terra Trials.
Build a sky-high industrial tower! Defend against enemies & deep space fleets. Your faction reputation persists across death, build a legacy that outlasts you. Hardcore simulation strategy. Deep industry chains & emergent narrative in handcrafted pixel art.
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Dungeonborne Settlement
Single-player alternative to Terra Trials — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Terra Trials.
Defeat monsters in dungeons, gather resources, grow your settlement, and combine and enhance tactics to lead the battle. Use auto-battle and flexible challenges to create and change tactics as you face stronger dungeons.
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Ecliptica
Single-player alternative to Terra Trials — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Terra Trials.
Ecliptica is a first-person open-world colony survival simulator with a fully dynamic economy. Set on a hostile alien planet, you'll found corporations, fight for resources, and build a sustainable future—or be wiped out by ruthless nature, politics, and competition.
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Order: The New Dawn
Single-player alternative to Terra Trials — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Terra Trials.
Order: The New Dawn is a colony sim with space adventure. As a legendary captain from the United Stellar, build a base on the desert planet New Terra and face the perils of the Wastespace—how will you shape the destiny of the stars?
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Forsaken: Year One
Single-player alternative to Terra Trials — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Terra Trials.
Rebuild society as you see fit in this survival community management game. Centered around survivors, their needs and their relationships, you will have to make hard choices to survive and rebuild after the apocalypse.
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Warranted Humanity
Single-player alternative to Terra Trials — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Terra Trials.
Warranted Humanity is a post-apocalyptic 2D side scroller where choices matter. Fight different infected and rival factions, scavenge, skill up, craft, manage your shelter and other survivors, all in a race against time to ensure humanity’s survival before everyone is irreversibly infected.
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Riftborne
Single-player alternative to Terra Trials — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Terra Trials.
Riftborne is a classic terminal based, real time, grand strategy game. Construct space ships. Take part in factional warfare. Hire galactic hit-men on your rivals. Raid neighbors for rare resources. Train spies to infiltrate enemy bases for key intel. Grow your empire to dominate the galaxy.
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Aground Zero
Single-player alternative to Terra Trials — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Terra Trials.
The world has ended. You are deep underground, and all alone with a cheery AI companion. You will have to mine and build to survive, and search for other survivors to help you. Will you be able to reach the surface? And what will you find when you get there?
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Drakkar Crew
Single-player alternative to Terra Trials — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Terra Trials.
Hey rookie, climb aboard! We're heading for adventure across the North Sea on our reliable Viking ship! Choose from one of the charismatic characters, hire some warriors and engage in bloody battles!
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Backstreets of the Mind
Single-player alternative to Terra Trials — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Sometimes we think that if we could change something from our past, our whole life would turn out differently.
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One Way Flight
Single-player alternative to Terra Trials — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
You are trying to survive alone on an uninhabited island after a mystical air crash. First of all, you gather the remaining stuff and wait for the rescuers. After several days of waiting in vain you begin an exploration of the are, building a shelter, and gathering food.