Single-player games like Long Way Home
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Long Way Home, 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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Airlock
Single-player alternative to Long Way Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Long Way Home.
Explore a ruined city, rescue survivors, and build a thriving underground sanctuary. Every survivor unlocks new professions, technologies, and opportunities as you rebuild humanity beneath the surface while surviving the horrors above.
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Sur: Wheelchair Horror
Single-player alternative to Long Way Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Long Way Home.
Sur is a horror and survival game inspired by genre classics. Help Vanessa, in her wheelchair, explore Uroko Hospital and escape the creatures hunting her, while facing a plot full of twists and turns.
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Steel Ark
Single-player alternative to Long Way Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Long Way Home.
A first-person survival sandbox game where you explore a post-apocalyptic world, scavenge resources, craft production chains, and keep your train base running against all odds.
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Foul
Single-player alternative to Long Way Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Long Way Home.
Foul is a survival game with story elements. Alone, you must face everything that comes your way. Contaminated animals, hunger, and darkness are just some of the dangers awaiting you.
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Terra Taker
Single-player alternative to Long Way Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Long Way Home.
Terra Taker is an open-world survival crafting game where you build megastructures to terraform a fantasy planet. Gather resources, build automated bases, and transform floating islands, tornadoes, snowfields, lava zones, and lightning-scorched lands into a new paradise for humanity.
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The Alters
Single-player alternative to Long Way Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Long Way Home.
Explore an emotional sci-fi game with a unique blend of survival, adventure, and base-building elements. Help Jan Dolski, the sole survivor of an ill-fated space expedition, create alternative versions of himself to escape a hostile planet and tackle personal turmoils with this unconventional crew.
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CRAFTLANDER
Single-player alternative to Long Way Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Long Way Home.
Fight, explore, and sail across dangerous islands with discovery around every corner. Harvest rare materials and craft special gear to help you as you battle menacing fantastical creatures, build up your ship, and conquer a high-stakes final boss in a compact first-person island adventure.
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GreenMars: Expedition 744
Single-player alternative to Long Way Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Long Way Home.
A sci-fi survival game where you explore a full planet, gather resources, build your base, deploy terraforming machines and drones, and begin turning hostile Martian terrain into the foundation of a new civilisation.