Single-player games like DISTANT VISITANT
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to DISTANT VISITANT, 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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Mortal Frame: Reforged in Survival
Single-player alternative to DISTANT VISITANT — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with DISTANT VISITANT.
"Mortal Frame" is a sci-fi RPG combining open-world exploration and sandbox survival. The player explores a challenging world, gathers resources, crafts gear, captures AI companions, and upgrades modification chips to enhance their abilities, facing powerful foes and uncovering hidden mysteries.
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Encave
Single-player alternative to DISTANT VISITANT — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with DISTANT VISITANT.
Encave is a hybrid FPS-tower-defense game. Build customizable killrooms in a fully destructible environment to eliminate waves of corporate bioweapon rejects! Strategic base construction, and escalating Lovecraftian threats, Encave delivers a unique blend of action, strategy, and dark humor
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Tide Fall
Single-player alternative to DISTANT VISITANT — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with DISTANT VISITANT.
Explore dangerous islands, build and defend your base, sail the seas, and raid rival crews in this open-world pirate survival game.
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Isolation Edge
Single-player alternative to DISTANT VISITANT — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with DISTANT VISITANT.
Isolation Edge is a hardcore single-player survival game set in a desolate world reclaimed by zombies. Traverse dangerous zones to scavenge, craft gear, and build your fortress to endure the relentless hordes. The past is lost, but on this isolated edge, every breath is a victory worth fighting for.
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The Last Caretaker
Single-player alternative to DISTANT VISITANT — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with DISTANT VISITANT.
Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.
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AETHUS
Single-player alternative to DISTANT VISITANT — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with DISTANT VISITANT.
Explore a vast underground world to mine and craft hundreds of items while building up your modular Outpost on the surface, to prospect for gems, refine resources and farm hydroponic crops in this top-down sci-fi survival-crafter where the story always provides a reason to dig deeper.
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As One We Survive
Single-player alternative to DISTANT VISITANT — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Simulation with DISTANT VISITANT.
Survive in a harsh post-apocalyptic world. Scavenge resources, build up a homestead, form a community, and defend yourself against a lawless world while joining a father's desperate journey to save his sick daughter.
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HORDE Survival
Single-player alternative to DISTANT VISITANT — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with DISTANT VISITANT.
See yourself stuck in the middle of an ever growing virus epidemic. Find or craft weapons and tools to fight against the living and the dead. Build a safe place to survive in this cruel, apocalyptic world.
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FOAMGRAVE
Single-player alternative to DISTANT VISITANT — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with DISTANT VISITANT.
Survive a relentless ocean with no land in sight. Build your ship, risk everything in full-loot PvP, and carve your path in a player-driven world.