Single-player games like Eco
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Eco, 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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Stationeers
Single-player alternative to Eco — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Eco.
Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!
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Rising World
Single-player alternative to Eco — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Eco.
Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.
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Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to Eco — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Eco.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
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7 Days to Die
Single-player alternative to Eco — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Eco.
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
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ICARUS
Single-player alternative to Eco — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Eco.
ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.
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Grounded
Single-player alternative to Eco — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
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Medieval Dynasty
Single-player alternative to Eco — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Eco.
Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.
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Green Hell
Single-player alternative to Eco — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Eco.
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
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No Man's Sky
Single-player alternative to Eco — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
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This War of Mine
Single-player alternative to Eco — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Eco.
In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle.
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Valheim
Single-player alternative to Eco — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Eco.
A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
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The Forest
Single-player alternative to Eco — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Eco.
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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The Long Dark
Single-player alternative to Eco — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Eco.
THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.
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Starbound
Single-player alternative to Eco — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Eco.
You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...
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FarSky
Single-player alternative to Eco — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Eco.
FarSky is a short survival game in the depths of the Ocean. Collect all the pieces of your submarine and reach back the surface.
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Breathedge
Single-player alternative to Eco — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Eco.
Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.
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Vessel
Single-player alternative to Eco — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Eco.
Living liquid machines have overrun a world of unstoppable progress and their inventor must stop the chaos in this game about a man with the power to bring ordinary matter to life!