Single-player games like Wayward
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Wayward, 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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Necesse
Single-player alternative to Wayward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wayward.
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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Caves of Qud
Single-player alternative to Wayward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wayward.
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.
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UnReal World
Single-player alternative to Wayward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Wayward.
The cult classic open-ended wilderness survival roguelike taking place in the ancient North, iron-age Finland. Throughout the years, UnReal World has been praised for its incredible depth, realism, atmos and immersion. Lose yourself in the most intricate, detailed and enchanting iron-age game world.
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Crea
Single-player alternative to Wayward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wayward.
Progress with every slain monster, learn over 80 skills through talents, craft hundreds of items, and explore vast procedurally-generated worlds in this ever-expanding sandbox RPG!
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Solace Crafting
Single-player alternative to Wayward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wayward.
Embark on an adventure set in a fantasy survival RPG. Visit a borderless, open world where you manage resources to construct your base and new types of equipment to support your conquest.
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Keplerth
Single-player alternative to Wayward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wayward.
Welcome to Keplerth! Try to survive on a hostile alien planet in this 2D sandbox RPG, where you can choose to live alone or fight side by side with your friends in the online multiplayer mode. Survive, build, farm, fight, and explore your way to victory in this open-world adventure!
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Soulash 2
Single-player alternative to Wayward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wayward.
Soulash 2 is a sandbox RPG roguelike with a procedurally generated open world, simulated history, skill-based progression system, customizable abilities, material-based crafting, building, trading, and the possibility of total mayhem. Will you save your world or destroy it?
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Dig or Die
Single-player alternative to Wayward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Wayward.
Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.
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Terraria
Single-player alternative to Wayward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wayward.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
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Pixel Dungeon
Single-player alternative to Wayward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wayward.
Pixel Dungeon is an exciting and extremely popular roguelike (more than 2 million mobile installs!). Explore the depths of Pixel Dungeon, collect useful items and fight fierce monsters to find the Amulet of Yendor - the ultimate artefact of this game world!
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Minicraft Shooter
Single-player alternative to Wayward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wayward.
Minicraft Shooter is an epic time killer shooter with a top view in which you face an endless crowd of zombies, in the scenery of a cyberpunk metropolis, a modern city and a green forest. and all this in a cubic style!