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Single-player games like Airlock

Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Airlock, 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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    Nederfall — Steam game cover

    Nederfall

    Single-player alternative to Airlock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Airlock.

    The Netherlands has fallen. Lead your survivors on scavenging trips through the ruins, find resources, recruit more survivors, and come home to a camp to take care for. Survivors cook, craft, and train on their own. Every item you bring back makes your camp grow stronger.

    SimulationRPGSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Nord — Steam game cover

    Nord

    Single-player alternative to Airlock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Airlock.

    NORD is a story-driven survival game set in a flooded Swedish archipelago. Alone or with friends, engineer your raft to navigate a strange, petrifying ocean.

    2027AdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Elysium — Steam game cover

    Elysium

    Single-player alternative to Airlock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Airlock.

    Wake up on a paradise-like abandoned island with your friends. Explore the lands of an ancient civilization and uncover the mysteries behind their collapse as you build, craft, and tame corrupted machines. Most importantly, survive the unwelcome lands of Elysium!

    2027ActionIndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
  4. 4
    The Last of Us™ Part I — Steam game cover

    The Last of Us™ Part I

    Single-player alternative to Airlock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Airlock.

    Discover the award-winning game that inspired the critically acclaimed television show. Guide Joel and Ellie through a post-apocalyptic America, and encounter unforgettable allies and enemies in The Last of Us™.

    2023ActionAdventure59.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    ATOM RPG 2 — Steam game cover

    ATOM RPG 2

    Single-player alternative to Airlock — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    A New Open-World Era of ATOM Begins! 1,225 km² of the Caspian Wastes! Open-world survival game with a story-rich CRPG soul, co-op or alone, vehicles, sandbox, crafting, and strange encounters.

    RPGSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Technocene: Down and Out on Ganymede — Steam game cover

    Technocene: Down and Out on Ganymede

    Single-player alternative to Airlock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Airlock.

    A story-rich survival sim where every object reacts to what you do. Manipulate, combine, improvise! You escaped your family's cage into space — now broke, undocumented, and wildly unprepared to live down and out. Keep fed, keep a roof over your head, keep yourself alive — and your new friends too.

    ActionIndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    AETHUS — Steam game cover

    AETHUS

    Single-player alternative to Airlock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Airlock.

    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.

    2026StrategyIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Blossom: The Seed of Life — Steam game cover

    Blossom: The Seed of Life

    Single-player alternative to Airlock — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Airlock.

    Terraform a dead planet back to life in this open world survival crafting game. Explore ruins, gather resources, print machines, drive modular vehicles, grow forests, biomes, and ecosystems. Create life and make it thrive with your own hands.

    2026IndieAdventure13.59 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →