Single-player games like The Wild Eight
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to The Wild Eight, 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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The Long Dark
Single-player alternative to The Wild Eight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Wild Eight.
THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.
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How to Survive 2
Single-player alternative to The Wild Eight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Wild Eight.
Dead or Alive? Make up your mind, stranger. We don’t like that undead business here in Louisiana…Survive solo or with friends as you look to fulfill your basic needs of food, water and shelter, crafting your own tools and weapons while you secure your camp and face flesh hungry zombies.
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Valheim
Single-player alternative to The Wild Eight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Wild Eight.
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!
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Don't Starve Together
Single-player alternative to The Wild Eight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Wild Eight.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
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The Forest
Single-player alternative to The Wild Eight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Wild Eight.
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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ASTRONEER
Single-player alternative to The Wild Eight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Wild Eight.
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.
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Breathedge
Single-player alternative to The Wild Eight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Wild Eight.
Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.
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Voidtrain
Single-player alternative to The Wild Eight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Wild Eight.
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered
Single-player alternative to The Wild Eight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with The Wild Eight.
Explore Cyrodiil like never before with stunning new visuals and refined gameplay in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion™ Remastered.
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Don't Starve
Single-player alternative to The Wild Eight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Wild Eight.
Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.
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Qazaq: Son of the Sun
Single-player alternative to The Wild Eight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Wild Eight.
Qazaq: Son of the Sun - a single-player first-person open-world game with puzzles set in Kazakhstan, where you are the last surviving Qazaq saved by the Sun God.