Single-player games like Survive the Nights
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Survive the Nights, 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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ORMOD: Directive
Single-player alternative to Survive the Nights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Survive the Nights.
Shape your own survival experience in an infinite open-world sandbox. Customize world difficulty, rules, and playstyle. Play solo, co-op, or on 24/7 MMO-style servers across PvP, PvE, Hardcore, or Creative modes as you build, automate, fight, and survive. The choice is yours.
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7 Days to Die
Single-player alternative to Survive the Nights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Survive the Nights.
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
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Rain Station Z
Single-player alternative to Survive the Nights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Survive the Nights.
Multiplayer Open World Zombie Survival. The acid rain never stops, neither do the dead. Survive the apocalypse alone or with friends.
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Unturned
Single-player alternative to Survive the Nights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Survive the Nights.
You're a survivor in the zombie infested ruins of society, and must work with your friends and forge alliances to remain among the living.
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SCUM
Single-player alternative to Survive the Nights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Survive the Nights.
Traverse punishing environments, looting, crafting and evading the constant threats to your life. The unprecedented levels of character customization and progression are your ultimate tools for survival.
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Contagion
Single-player alternative to Survive the Nights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Survive the Nights.
Contagion isn't your average Zombie Shooter but instead takes a more realistic and different approach to the popular genre with unique characters, environments, weapons, items, and a built in system that makes every round completely unpredictable with resources, objectives, and paths ever changing.
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Plains of Pain
Single-player alternative to Survive the Nights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Survive the Nights.
Survive a brutal open world alone or with friends. Explore a procedural wasteland scorched by chaos. Build and defend your base, trade for what you need, complete deadly quests, and fight to claim faction outposts before someone else does.
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VEIN
Single-player alternative to Survive the Nights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Simulation with Survive the Nights.
VEIN is a post-apocalyptic survival multiplayer sandbox game. Gather supplies to survive, explore abandoned buildings, defend your home, and rebuild society, whether alone or with friends.
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Project Zomboid
Single-player alternative to Survive the Nights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Survive the Nights.
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..