Single-player games like Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey, 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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How to Survive 2
Single-player alternative to Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey.
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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Phoning Home
Single-player alternative to Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey.
A tale of survival about two shipwrecked robots - ION and ANI - on their life-defining journey in this unique genre-mix of exploration, puzzle and survival.
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Far Cry® Primal
Single-player alternative to Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey.
The award-winning Far Cry franchise returns with its innovative open world gameplay, bringing together massive beasts, breathtaking environments, and unpredictable savage encounters. Welcome to the Stone Age, a time of danger and adventure.
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Green Hell
Single-player alternative to Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey.
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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ArkCraft: The Rebirth of the World
Single-player alternative to Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey.
In this open-world crafting and building game, you explore an ancient world full of dangers and secrets. Collect animals and plants, build bases and master the craft as you build your ark and save civilization from destruction by the flood and then rebuild it.
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Grounded
Single-player alternative to Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey.
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
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ARK: Survival Evolved
Single-player alternative to Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey.
Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!
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The Forest
Single-player alternative to Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey.
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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Shelter 2
Single-player alternative to Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey.
As a powerful Lynx, you will make your way through vast open landscapes. In the harsh tundra, you will raise and strengthen your cubs by mastering your skills for hunting prey. Do everything you can to prepare your little ones for the vicious entities dwelling in the wilderness.
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Rain World
Single-player alternative to Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey.
You are a nomadic slugcat, both predator and prey in a broken ecosystem. Grab your spear and brave the industrial wastes, hunting enough food to survive, but be wary— other, bigger creatures have the same plan... and slugcats look delicious.
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Nature & Life - Drunk On Nectar
Single-player alternative to Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey.
Play as Animals, Live in Nature! Multiple game modes include Realistic Lifecycles, Survival, Sandbox, Fantasy and Exploration. Unique gameplay for each species! Currently featuring Monarch Butterfly, Praying Mantis, Jumping Spider and other iconic creatures. Mammals, Birds, Reptiles coming soon!
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Maneater
Single-player alternative to Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey.
Experience the ultimate power fantasy as the apex predator of the seas - a giant Shark! Terrorize the coastal waterways. Tear swimmers and divers limb from limb, give the humans a reason to fear you!
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Fugl
Single-player alternative to Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey.
Soar with the wind as a shape-shifting bird. Explore worlds teeming with life. Discover and morph into hundreds of animal species. Relax and enjoy the freedom of Fugl.
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Unleashed
Single-player alternative to Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey.
Plunge into the brutal Mystria, a corrupt world founded on sorcery and lies. Explore a dense open-world sandbox RPG with a rich history and narrative and a rewarding combat system brought to you by a multi-award-winning team.
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Gecko Gods
Single-player alternative to Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey.
Explore a forgotten land in Gecko Gods, a puzzle-adventure as a tiny gecko. Climb walls, solve ancient puzzles and uncover a lost civilisation in a world full of hidden paths, quiet secrets and natural wonder.
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Stray
Single-player alternative to Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey.
Lost, alone and separated from family, a stray cat must untangle an ancient mystery to escape a long-forgotten cybercity and find their way home.
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1666: Amsterdam
Single-player alternative to Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey.
Every 333 years, something stirs. 1666: Amsterdam is a 3rd person Dark, Story-Led, Action-Adventure where Noa, the Collector, wields witchcraft to uncover demonic entities hiding behind human faces. Investigate by day. Face your demons at night.