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Single-player games like Cataclysm: The Last Generation

Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Cataclysm: The Last Generation, 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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    Apocalypse: The Last RV — Steam game cover

    Apocalypse: The Last RV

    Single-player alternative to Cataclysm: The Last Generation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Cataclysm: The Last Generation.

    Once #1 on both TapTap New Releases and Exclusive Charts, this post-apocalyptic comfort survival game is now on Steam. One-time purchase, no ads, focusing on survival simulation, RV stockpiling and roguelike reincarnation to deliver a relaxing wasteland experience with full preparation and no fear.

    StrategyIndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Seed World — Steam game cover

    Seed World

    Single-player alternative to Cataclysm: The Last Generation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and RPG with Cataclysm: The Last Generation.

    Seed World is a game that aims to combine automation, conveyor belts, and level progression. The game simplifies automation 'construction' into a series of progress bars, with each progress producing or consuming resources, and players need to manage resources.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation2.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    SealChain: Call of Blood — Steam game cover

    SealChain: Call of Blood

    Single-player alternative to Cataclysm: The Last Generation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Cataclysm: The Last Generation.

    SealChain is a roguelike game where items can link together to form chain reactions. Items can also be arranged into specific formations to create seals, granting special effects.

    2026ActionStrategyIndie8.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    One More Adventure — Steam game cover

    One More Adventure

    Single-player alternative to Cataclysm: The Last Generation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Cataclysm: The Last Generation.

    One More Adventure is a hexcrawl roguelike inspired by Nethack and Castle of the Winds. It is part of the Old School Renaissance (OSR), and has heavy influences from TTRPGs from the 1970s and 1980s. Each world map and dungeon is new, allowing for a high amount of replayability.

    2026RPGSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Dead Await: Prologue — Steam game cover

    The Dead Await: Prologue

    Single-player alternative to Cataclysm: The Last Generation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Cataclysm: The Last Generation.

    Get ready to experience the thrills and chills of The Dead Await: Prologue, a free and fully functional demo! Build your deck and try to survive in this deck-building survival RPG set during a zombie apocalypse.

    2023IndieRPGFreeDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    iZolated — Steam game cover

    iZolated

    Single-player alternative to Cataclysm: The Last Generation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Cataclysm: The Last Generation.

    iZolated - This is a post-apocalyptic 2D action game with elements of survival and RPG, which throws you into a harsh open world where the slightest mistake costs you your life. Find equipment, engage in fights, and prove that you are the top of the food chain in this chaos!

    2024ActionIndieAdventure5.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    VEIN — Steam game cover

    VEIN

    Single-player alternative to Cataclysm: The Last Generation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and RPG with Cataclysm: The Last Generation.

    VEIN is a post-apocalyptic survival multiplayer sandbox game. Gather supplies to survive, explore abandoned buildings, defend your home, and rebuild society, whether alone or with friends.

    2025ActionSimulationRPG19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Days Gone — Steam game cover

    Days Gone

    Single-player alternative to Cataclysm: The Last Generation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Cataclysm: The Last Generation.

    Ride and fight into a deadly, post pandemic America. Play as Deacon St. John, a drifter and bounty hunter who rides the broken road, fighting to survive while searching for a reason to live in this open-world action-adventure game.

    2021ActionAdventure39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Project Zomboid — Steam game cover

    Project Zomboid

    Single-player alternative to Cataclysm: The Last Generation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and RPG with Cataclysm: The Last Generation.

    Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..

    2013IndieSimulationRPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Mad Max — Steam game cover

    Mad Max

    Single-player alternative to Cataclysm: The Last Generation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Cataclysm: The Last Generation.

    Play as Mad Max, a reluctant hero and survivor who wants nothing more than to leave the madness behind and find solace.

    2015ActionAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    RimWorld — Steam game cover

    RimWorld

    Single-player alternative to Cataclysm: The Last Generation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Cataclysm: The Last Generation.

    A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation34.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Caves of Qud — Steam game cover

    Caves of Qud

    Single-player alternative to Cataclysm: The Last Generation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Cataclysm: The Last Generation.

    Inhabit a deeply-simulated science fantasy world and chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations. Build a character from over a hundred mutations and cybernetics. The award-winning sandbox roguelike & RPG full of robots, deep lore, and sentient plants.

    2024StrategyIndieAdventure23.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Rogue — Steam game cover

    Rogue

    Single-player alternative to Cataclysm: The Last Generation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Cataclysm: The Last Generation.

    Experience the commercial port of the game that spawned a thousand 'Rogue-likes'. Venture into the Dungeons of Doom in search of the legendary Amulet of Yendor, and hopefully escape with your life! Randomly generated dungeons await you, full of nasty monsters, insidious traps, and glittering loot.

    2020StrategyAdventureRPG2.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead — Steam game cover

    Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead

    Single-player alternative to Cataclysm: The Last Generation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Cataclysm: The Last Generation.

    The epitome of a modern traditional roguelike: with turn-based play and a RPG-like skill progression system, it hearkens back to some of the major aspects of this genre. This game has an incredible depth, with a deep inventory system, vehicles and boats, NPCs with their own stories, and more.

    2023AdventureRPG19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    HackHub - Ultimate Hacker Simulator — Steam game cover

    HackHub - Ultimate Hacker Simulator

    Single-player alternative to Cataclysm: The Last Generation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Cataclysm: The Last Generation.

    Unravel cyber secrets and foil mass surveillance as a skilled hacker in Hackhub. Challenge authority, rewrite the rules, and emerge as the ultimate digital rebel.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation11.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →