Single-player games like The Quiet Cold
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Quiet Cold, 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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PlanetSmith
Single-player alternative to The Quiet Cold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Early Access with The Quiet Cold.
A sandbox survival RPG set on fully spherical hex worlds. Crash-land on an uncharted planet, craft and build to survive, uncover what infected the solar system, then build a ship and fly seamlessly to other planets. No loading screens. No edges.
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Astromine
Single-player alternative to The Quiet Cold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Quiet Cold.
Astromine is a survival mining game about scavenging fully destructible planets. Designed for 1 to 4 players. Land on planets and gather enough materials to fight off alien creatures, fight robot factions, build structures and spaceships, and conquer the solar system
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Hollowstride
Single-player alternative to The Quiet Cold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Early Access with The Quiet Cold.
Explore, build, and survive in a living, procedural world. Hollowstride is a multiplayer voxel sandbox in early development, offering a moddable foundation for your next great adventure.
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The Forest
Single-player alternative to The Quiet Cold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Quiet Cold.
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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Creativerse
Single-player alternative to The Quiet Cold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Quiet Cold.
A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.
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Lay of the Land
Single-player alternative to The Quiet Cold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Quiet Cold.
Lay of the Land is a sandbox adventure game set in a fantasy world where everything is physically simulated. Use the environment to your advantage and Explore, Fight, Loot and Build your way through mysterious lands.
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No Man's Sky
Single-player alternative to The Quiet Cold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Quiet Cold.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
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V Rising
Single-player alternative to The Quiet Cold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Quiet Cold.
Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.