Single-player games like COLDNIGHTS
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to COLDNIGHTS, 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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Terra Taker
Single-player alternative to COLDNIGHTS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with COLDNIGHTS.
Terra Taker is an open-world survival crafting game where you build megastructures to terraform a fantasy planet. Gather resources, build automated bases, and transform floating islands, tornadoes, snowfields, lava zones, and lightning-scorched lands into a new paradise for humanity.
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POLYARIS
Single-player alternative to COLDNIGHTS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with COLDNIGHTS.
Survive the Arctic in this first-person single-player game. Move by skis and boat, stay warm, dry, and hydrated, loot what's left behind, fight enemies, and escape the lonely north by any means. For fans of The Long Dark and other similar survival games.
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KYORA
Single-player alternative to COLDNIGHTS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with COLDNIGHTS.
Delve into KYORA, a mystical multiplayer sandbox adventure, where every pixel is yours to shape, mine, build or explode.
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The Eternal Bone : Shellshore
Single-player alternative to COLDNIGHTS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with COLDNIGHTS.
The Eternal Bone : Shellshore is a farm adventure game. You can build your own home, cultivating ,protect and harvest crops, dig resources. Or obtain weapon,defeat the monster, start a sci-fi farm adventure game along the Shellshore's river.
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Heartwake
Single-player alternative to COLDNIGHTS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with COLDNIGHTS.
A cozy single-player crafting adventure where every repair brightens the island and every friendship weakens the gloom. Explore a storm-battered coast, befriend the locals, rebuild what was lost, and find the way to stop The Tornado.
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Ashfield Hollow
Single-player alternative to COLDNIGHTS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with COLDNIGHTS.
Build a life in the ruins. Ashfield Hollow combines deep survival, real-time combat, farming, crafting, and fishing in a post-apocalyptic world that nearly didn't make it. Ten years after the outbreak, Camp Ashfield is one of the last places left. Whether it stays that way is up to you.
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Highreach
Single-player alternative to COLDNIGHTS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with COLDNIGHTS.
When calamity struck, the world of Highreach was shattered. In this open-world survival game, build encampments, rescue survivors, and soar across the skies on your airship to explore a lost world and uncover the truth.
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Millennium Slumber
Single-player alternative to COLDNIGHTS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with COLDNIGHTS.
Survive 400,000 years on a planet infested with an alien calamity! Gather resources, build a base and defend against hordes of nocturnal monsters in this rogue-like with cryostasis mechanics.