Single-player games like Tidewrack
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Tidewrack, 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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Occupy Mars: The Game
Single-player alternative to Tidewrack — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tidewrack.
Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.
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Chocolate Factory
Single-player alternative to Tidewrack — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tidewrack.
Build your dream Chocolate Factory among candy cane forests and gumdrop hills to produce the tastiest sweets. A delicious first-person factory automation game with a little exploration and combat. Confectionary conveyor belt heaven awaits!
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Windrose
Single-player alternative to Tidewrack — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Tidewrack.
Embark on a PvE survival adventure in the Age of Piracy. Fight on land and sea, solo or with friends. Build, craft and explore vast open world filled with dark secrets. Master soulslite combat and take on challenging bosses, command your ship and plunder unspoken treasures!
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Sapiens
Single-player alternative to Tidewrack — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Tidewrack.
Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.
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Escape The Pacific
Single-player alternative to Tidewrack — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tidewrack.
Raw, real survival in the Pacific. Build a modular floating base. Master realistic sailing mechanics. Face challenging Pacific-like weather & seasons. Hunt, craft, build & navigate using Sun Dial, Sextant & Triangulation. Explore an endless island cluster-based world. Simulate real life scenarios!
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Salt
Single-player alternative to Tidewrack — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tidewrack.
Salt is an open world exploration game where you sail from island to island looking for loot and new discoveries! Relax and explore at your own pace, picking a direction and setting sail across a vast ocean filled with quests, merchants, ruins, pirates, and other mysterious places.
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Colony Survival
Single-player alternative to Tidewrack — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tidewrack.
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
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Castle Story
Single-player alternative to Tidewrack — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Tidewrack.
Castle Story is a creative voxel-based strategy game in which you can build castles one brick at a time using an army of little creatures called Bricktrons. Design and build your own castles, expand your territory in a vast landscape and defend your Bricktrons against onslaughts of hostile creatures.
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SlapGains
Single-player alternative to Tidewrack — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Tidewrack.
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 Tidewrack — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Tidewrack.
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 Tidewrack — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tidewrack.
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.