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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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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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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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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Under A New Sun
Single-player alternative to Phoning Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Phoning Home.
While searching for a new home, an unexpected failure in your ship has left you stranded on a planet surprisingly similar to Earth. Discover a vast open world, hunt for food, develop technologies, and build yourself a new home to survive!
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Grounded
Single-player alternative to Phoning Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Phoning Home.
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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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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Voidtrain
Single-player alternative to Phoning Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Phoning Home.
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
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Don't Starve
Single-player alternative to Phoning Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Phoning Home.
Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.
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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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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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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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The Forest
Single-player alternative to Phoning Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Phoning Home.
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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Starsand
Single-player alternative to Phoning Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Phoning Home.
Starsand is a mystic survival game set among the dunes of an arcane desert. An open-world full of danger, vast environments and mysterious happenings await you! Explore, hunt, craft, build – and SURVIVE.
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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 Nights
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 a cyberpunk city that stretches from the ocean to the clouds.