Single-player games like PostCollapse
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to PostCollapse, 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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Animallica
Single-player alternative to PostCollapse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with PostCollapse.
In Animallica you are racing against extinction after a deadly virus ravaged the world. As the lone survivor of the last conservation center on Earth, the fate of every single animal and plant species lies in your hands.
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The Forest
Single-player alternative to PostCollapse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with PostCollapse.
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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Mist Survival
Single-player alternative to PostCollapse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with PostCollapse.
MIST SURVIVAL is a Single-player, survival stealth sandbox game Players will experience the Apocalypse stimulation in the form of virus pandemic, the players have to deal with it to survive through the difficulties such as finding shelter and food, threats from the environment and climate: wild animals, bandits, infected, and dense mist t
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Don't Starve Together
Single-player alternative to PostCollapse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with PostCollapse.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
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Vortex: The Gateway
Single-player alternative to PostCollapse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with PostCollapse.
Vortex: The Gateway is an open world survival horror game with two game modes. If you want to survive then be alert, sneak, build and fight. Meanwhile life back on Earth changes dramatically. What changes? You will get bits of information through your adventure. Prepare for the worst!
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Whisper of the Swallows
Single-player alternative to PostCollapse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with PostCollapse.
Brave a savage, unforgiving procedurally generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark will hunt you down. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to turn a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.
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Hold Your Own
Single-player alternative to PostCollapse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with PostCollapse.
A single player open world sandbox, crafting and survival FPS game set in a multi-island land where you'll fight to survive. Build your base, hunt and craft to defend yourself from aggressive wildlife, enemies or friends. Do you have what it takes to Hold Your Own?
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Zelter
Single-player alternative to PostCollapse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with PostCollapse.
All the horrors of zombie apocalypse in adorable pixelated form! Craft, explore and rescue people in a city overrun by the zombie horde. Good luck, survivors!
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7 Days to Die
Single-player alternative to PostCollapse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with PostCollapse.
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
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Fallout 4
Single-player alternative to PostCollapse — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
From Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of Starfield and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, comes Fallout 4. A landmark in open-world RPG design and winner of over 200 ‘Best Of’ honors, including the DICE and BAFTA Game of the Year.
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Business Magnate
Single-player alternative to PostCollapse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with PostCollapse.
Business Magnate is a tycoon business simulation game where you can create all types of businesses: Cars, rockets, phones, tanks, trucks, airplanes, computers, and ships. Design, produce, market and sell them. You can even run multiple companies at the same time.
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Government Simulator
Single-player alternative to PostCollapse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with PostCollapse.
Government Simulator is a is a simple economic and political simulation game based on real-world data. Take control of a whole country, like the USA, Germany, France, Russia, or Austria. Change laws, taxes and budgets based on real world statistics and data, and see what happens.
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Smart City Plan
Single-player alternative to PostCollapse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with PostCollapse.
Smart City Plan is a modern old-school style city builder game: Plan zones, roads, public transport like trains, trams, buses, subways and even the hypertube. Set taxes and policies and implement smart city technologies.
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Cargo Company
Single-player alternative to PostCollapse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with PostCollapse.
Cargo Company is a transport simulation tycoon game where you make money by transporting passengers, wood, steel, goods, cars, tanks and more - using trains, trucks, busses, and even rockets between planets.