Single-player games like CHKN
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to CHKN, 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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TerraTech
Single-player alternative to CHKN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with CHKN.
TerraTech is an open-world, sandbox adventure game, where you design and build your own creations through a mix of crafting, combat and discovery. Design vehicles from a huge library of blocks. Scavenge, craft and buy new parts to survive and become the ultimate planetary prospector.
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Creativerse
Single-player alternative to CHKN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with CHKN.
A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.
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PixARK
Single-player alternative to CHKN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with CHKN.
Enter a world of mystery, danger, ancient dinosaurs, mythical beasts, and cubes! Work by yourself or with a tribe of others to gather materials, craft useful items, tame wild creatures, and build huge bases to survive in PixARK!
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CardLife: Creative Survival
Single-player alternative to CHKN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with CHKN.
Hand draw any weapon, tool, building piece and your own character in this innovative science-fantasy creative survival game. Mine for resources, construct unique buildings and battle fantastical beasts with friends or play alone. Explore a world made entirely out of cardboard!
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Scrap Mechanic
Single-player alternative to CHKN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with CHKN.
Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!
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Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to CHKN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with CHKN.
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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The Forest
Single-player alternative to CHKN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with CHKN.
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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Portal Knights
Single-player alternative to CHKN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with CHKN.
The world of Elysia needs YOU! Join this cooperative, 3D sandbox action RPG to level up your character, craft epic weapons, conquer enemies in real-time, and build almost anything! Craft your adventure. Forge your hero. Become the ultimate Portal Knight!
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Slime Rancher
Single-player alternative to CHKN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with CHKN.
Slime Rancher is the tale of Beatrix LeBeau, a plucky, young rancher who sets out for a life a thousand light years away from Earth on the ‘Far, Far Range’ where she tries her hand at making a living wrangling slimes.
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Croak Crusader: Spawn of the Spore Spectre
Single-player alternative to CHKN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with CHKN.
Embark on an odyssey into the unknown! Behold the tale of Toadman, an enigmatic being born from alien tech and the mysteries of Radiant Verde. Witness his perilous quest through treacherous jungles to confront Captain Croak in an epic showdown! Welcome to "Spawn of the Spore Spectre"!