Single-player games like Phoning Home
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Phoning Home, 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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Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey
Single-player alternative to Phoning Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Phoning Home.
Survive your evolution in Neogene Africa starting 10 million years ago. Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is a third-person open world survival game where you Explore, Expand, and Evolve to advance your clan to the next generation in the exciting new adventure from Panache Digital Games.
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Breathedge
Single-player alternative to Phoning Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Phoning Home.
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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Subnautica
Single-player alternative to Phoning Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Phoning Home.
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
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No Man's Sky
Single-player alternative to Phoning Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Phoning Home.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
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Crashlands
Single-player alternative to Phoning Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Phoning Home.
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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Population Zero
Single-player alternative to Phoning Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Phoning Home.
Survival on Kepler is a race against time. Make the most of the remaining 168 hours or get turned into an unworldly being by the Sphere. Complete quests to help NPCs, explore the diverse landscape, survive wildlife and other players. Uncover Kepler’s mysteries and your mission’s true goal.
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Goliath
Single-player alternative to Phoning Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Phoning Home.
Welcome to a mysterious world filled with strange creatures, giant monsters and warring factions. You won't last long here on your own. Fortunately, you know how to build giant robots! Find the plans, gather the resources, climb inside your giant robotic creation and start punching monsters in the face!
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The Fifth Day
Single-player alternative to Phoning Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Phoning Home.
The Fifth Day is a post-apocalyptic survival game set in the time after mankind's extinction to the machines that it created. Your role, as one of these machines, is to survive in the hostile world left behind by man.
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Near Death
Single-player alternative to Phoning Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Phoning Home.
Stranded at an abandoned Antarctic research base with no hope of rescue, you must battle a deadly blizzard in a desperate fight to find your way home.
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Disney•Pixar WALL-E
Single-player alternative to Phoning Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Phoning Home.
Based on the 2008 computer animated film from Pixar Animation Studios, the video game version of WALL-E involves playing as the lonely robot as he navigates a trash-tainted world and begins an unlikely trek across the cosmos.
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Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
Single-player alternative to Phoning Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Phoning Home.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
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Turok
Single-player alternative to Phoning Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Phoning Home.
A world where time has no meaning - and evil knows no bounds. Torn from a world long gone, the time traveling warrior Turok has found himself thrust into a savage land torn by conflict.
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Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality
Single-player alternative to Phoning Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Phoning Home.
Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality smashes together the absolute VR chaos of the award-winning Job Simulator with the ridiculous, all-out, take-no-prisoners comedy of Rick and Morty.
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Outer Wilds
Single-player alternative to Phoning Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Phoning Home.
Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.
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Cloudpunk
Single-player alternative to Phoning Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Phoning Home.
A neon-noir story in a rain-drenched cyberpunk metropolis. It’s your first night on the job working for the Cloudpunk delivery service. Two rules: Don’t miss a delivery and don’t ask what’s in the package.
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Nivalis
Single-player alternative to Phoning Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Phoning Home.
Grow your business, manage restaurants and nightclubs, make friends and enemies, buy and decorate apartments, go fishing and maybe even find love in Nivalis, the city that stretches from the ocean to the clouds.