Single-player games like By My Side
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to By My Side, 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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Island Beekeeper
Single-player alternative to By My Side — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with By My Side.
Build your apiary on islands above the clouds, travel on your medocycle, crossbreed bees with unique traits and create a cozy home in the sky. Grow plants, explore islands and send healing honey down to Earth, where people still hope for your help.
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Coastless
Single-player alternative to By My Side — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with By My Side.
Survival crafting game: build your raft, explore procedurally generated islands, feed the monster that powers your ship, and clean the black waters to expand and save the world. Solo or co-op.
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Witchspire
Single-player alternative to By My Side — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with By My Side.
Step into the ultimate open-world witch adventure. Befriend and battle creatures, and conjure up a sanctuary alongside other witches in co-op or single-player.
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Windpunk
Single-player alternative to By My Side — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with By My Side.
A cozy survival craft adventure. Build a walking fortress to survive the winds of a fallen world. ♻️ Recycle ⛏️ Refine, 🔧 Rebuild, and ⛺ survive the shifting biomes. Ride the wind, heal the land, and recruit quirky survivors to help rebuild the future. (Previosly known as Wasteland Waste Disposal)
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Solarpunk™
Single-player alternative to By My Side — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with By My Side.
Solarpunk is a survival game in a technically advanced world of floating islands. Alone or together with your friends, you can construct buildings, grow food, craft gadgets and hop on your airship to explore distant islands in the sky.
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Shorekeeper
Single-player alternative to By My Side — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with By My Side.
You washed ashore on a mysterious island. Now what? Build a shelter, find food, and explore the unknown. Or just sit by the campfire and watch the sunset. Farm, craft, and manage your new island life entirely at your own pace.
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Road Survival: Bigger on the Inside
Single-player alternative to By My Side — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with By My Side.
In a toxic, zombie-ridden wasteland, survival is brutal. Upgrade your RV into a foldable-space mobile base—farm, craft, gather resources, and fend off the undead to build your last safe haven.
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Brightfall
Single-player alternative to By My Side — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with By My Side.
Brightfall is an isometric open-world survival-craft for 1-4 players where light is your last defence against a living darkness. Explore cursed Celtic islands, craft powerful weapons, build a safe haven, and fight to keep your flame alive - because when it dies, your sanity follows.
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Tidewrack
Single-player alternative to By My Side — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with By My Side.
A few logs, one harpoon, no land in sight. Pull driftwood from the sea, turn your raft into a floating town, and rise from lone survivor to leader of a colony. Dive to the ocean floor. Raiders strike at night, sharks circle, and somewhere out there, a leviathan is waiting.
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SlapGains
Single-player alternative to By My Side — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with By My Side.
Train in a neon gym, walk into the arena, slap your way through five leagues. Every rep is on the beat, every slap counts. Your body visibly grows with you: thicker arms, broader shoulders, stronger legs, depending on what you train. Bronze to Diamond. One hit decides it.
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PARRYGON
Single-player alternative to By My Side — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with By My Side.
Pong, folded into a closed polygon. You hold one run of the wall and every other side belongs to somebody else. Parry inside a tight window to charge the orb. Lose a wall and the arena drops that side for good and rebuilds smaller, so the room closes in on whoever is left.
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INKBORN
Single-player alternative to By My Side — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with By My Side.
You wake up in a comic nobody finished, and an eraser is eating the world from the edge of the page. You have a sketchbook: trace an axe and you are holding an axe. Everything costs ink. Colour the page back in before it is gone. Up to four.