Single-player games like Junk Jack
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Junk Jack, 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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Crea
Single-player alternative to Junk Jack — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Junk Jack.
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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Starbound
Single-player alternative to Junk Jack — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Junk Jack.
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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Crashlands
Single-player alternative to Junk Jack — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Junk Jack.
Fight and tame alien beasts, craft resources into menacing weaponry, befriend the outlandish locals, and go toe-to-chin with a world-domineering maniac.
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Forager
Single-player alternative to Junk Jack — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Junk Jack.
The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!
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Dig or Die
Single-player alternative to Junk Jack — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Junk Jack.
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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Core Keeper
Single-player alternative to Junk Jack — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Junk Jack.
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
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Terraria
Single-player alternative to Junk Jack — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Junk Jack.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
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Signs of Life
Single-player alternative to Junk Jack — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Junk Jack.
Signs of Life is a sci-fi survival sandbox platformer with a combination of procedurally generated and hand-crafted content. You'll explore mysterious locations, Mine blocks for resources, and meet strange (and some familiar) creatures, some of which don't even want to kill you and eat your corpse.
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Stardew Valley
Single-player alternative to Junk Jack — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Junk Jack.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
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The Block
Single-player alternative to Junk Jack — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Junk Jack.
The Block is the world's smallest city builder. Place randomly generated buildings on a square and build up a tiny but perfectly formed city block! It's a very small game - more of a tiny little toy with no goals or challenges - hence the very small price :)
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Lifecraft
Single-player alternative to Junk Jack — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Survive and evolve as an organism with this simulation game in which you will literally start as a single cell and manage and organize all its functions to a fully fledged system! Assemble, breathe, eat, fight threats, produce energy, grow, anything is possible!