Single-player games like The Wild Eight
Below are 14 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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Feel The Snow
Single-player alternative to The Wild Eight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Wild Eight.
Choose one of the characters and start your journey. The game has many interesting things in store: building, crafting, puzzles, bosses, mystery, laughs, quests etc.
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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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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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Green Hell
Single-player alternative to The Wild Eight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Wild Eight.
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
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Niffelheim
Single-player alternative to The Wild Eight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Wild Eight.
Your avatar is a brave warrior who has fallen in battle. But instead of well-deserved peace in Asgard, his soul is trapped in the harsh world of Niffelheim. Survive in this hostile world, ransack the neighbor lands, explore dangerous dungeons and find your way to Valhalla
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Starbound
Single-player alternative to The Wild Eight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Wild Eight.
You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...
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Terraria
Single-player alternative to The Wild Eight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Wild Eight.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
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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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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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Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
Single-player alternative to The Wild Eight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Wild Eight.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
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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 brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
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The Sims™ 4
Single-player alternative to The Wild Eight — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with The Wild Eight.
Play with life and discover the possibilities. Unleash your imagination and create a world of Sims that’s wholly unique. Explore and customize every detail from Sims to homes–and much more.
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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.