Single-player games like Left to Your Own Devices
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Left to Your Own Devices, 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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Scavengers of Mars - Rover Survival Simulator
Single-player alternative to Left to Your Own Devices — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Left to Your Own Devices.
SCAVENGERS OF MARS is an exploration-survival adventure set on the cold, desolate surface of Mars. Guide a Mars Rover to aid survivors of a catastrophic disaster as they await rescue from Earth. Explore, gather resources, craft and ensure their survival against the planet's harsh conditions.
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Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to Left to Your Own Devices — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Left to Your Own Devices.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
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Factorio
Single-player alternative to Left to Your Own Devices — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Left to Your Own Devices.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
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Against the Storm
Single-player alternative to Left to Your Own Devices — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Left to Your Own Devices.
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
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AETHUS
Single-player alternative to Left to Your Own Devices — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Left to Your Own Devices.
Explore a vast underground world to mine and craft hundreds of items while building up your modular Outpost on the surface, to prospect for gems, refine resources and farm hydroponic crops in this top-down sci-fi survival-crafter where the story always provides a reason to dig deeper.
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Blossom: The Seed of Life
Single-player alternative to Left to Your Own Devices — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Left to Your Own Devices.
Terraform a dead planet back to life in this open world survival crafting game. Explore ruins, gather resources, print machines, drive modular vehicles, grow forests, biomes, and ecosystems. Create life and make it thrive with your own hands.
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Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
Single-player alternative to Left to Your Own Devices — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Left to Your Own Devices.
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
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Valheim
Single-player alternative to Left to Your Own Devices — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Left to Your Own Devices.
A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!