Single-player games like Frostrail
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Frostrail, 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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MISERY
Single-player alternative to Frostrail — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Frostrail.
MISERY is a 1–5 player co-op survival game set in a nuclear disaster zone. Here, every day is a struggle: search radioactive ruins for resources, build your bunker, craft weapons, and explore a weird, procedurally-generated world with your friends. Beware of anomalies, monsters, and armed bandits.
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Crushed
Single-player alternative to Frostrail — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Frostrail.
Crushed — is an Singleplayer and Multiplayer First-Person Survival Sandbox in an Open World! Challenge the wild and be ready to survive in harsh conditions. Explore the world, get resources, cook food, build a house, farm, hunt, and enjoy nature.
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Ars Notoria
Single-player alternative to Frostrail — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Frostrail.
Ars Notoria is an open-world survival crafting game set in a rich fantasy world. Learn six distinct schools of magic, gather resources, build your base, expand your influence, and stand against the ever-shifting threat of the Enthralled. You are the one destined to change the kingdom.
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The Forest
Single-player alternative to Frostrail — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Frostrail.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
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Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts
Single-player alternative to Frostrail — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Frostrail.
Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts is a Multiplayer Survival Horror game for up to 4 players. Set in the Middle of the Unknown, you can craft, build, explore and discover secrets in the exciting first chapter from EFNSOFT.
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Heat Death: Survival Train
Single-player alternative to Frostrail — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Frostrail.
Heat Death is a sci-fi survival game where you can build, upgrade, and customize your battle train to explore and survive a frozen world! This train is not only your shelter and vehicle, but also your weapon and ally to face hostile drones, deadly storms, and hidden mysteries of an unknown world!
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Whisper of the Swallows
Single-player alternative to Frostrail — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Frostrail.
Brave a savage, unforgiving procedurally generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark will hunt you down. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to turn a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.
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StarRupture
Single-player alternative to Frostrail — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Frostrail.
StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.
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Barotrauma
Single-player alternative to Frostrail — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Frostrail.
Barotrauma is a 2D co-op submarine simulator – in space, with survival horror and RPG elements. Steer your submarine, complete missions, fight monsters, fix leaks, operate machinery, man the guns and craft items, and stay alert: danger in Barotrauma doesn’t announce itself!