Single-player games like Skylands
Below are 7 single-player Steam games similar to Skylands, 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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Wilderness: Survival
Single-player alternative to Skylands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Skylands.
Wilderness: Survival is a single or multiplayer survival game. It is a pirate-like game where you can hunt, mine,fightning ,farming,gun crafting,fishing, fight skeletons and evolve. Duel with your friends etc. You can do. The game is still under development, please give constructive criticism.
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Survival Machine
Single-player alternative to Skylands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Skylands.
Build your base on a moving Machine, travel through biomes with different resources, and prepare for the night when a zombie threat is much higher than during the day. Would you go solo or explore this new world with your best friends?
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Starbound
Single-player alternative to Skylands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Skylands.
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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Signs of Life
Single-player alternative to Skylands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Skylands.
Signs of Life is a sci-fi survival sandbox platformer with a combination of procedurally generated and hand-crafted content. You'll explore mysterious locations, Mine blocks for resources, and meet strange (and some familiar) creatures, some of which don't even want to kill you and eat your corpse.
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Wolf Ridge
Single-player alternative to Skylands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Skylands.
Wolf Ridge is a multiplayer objective-based survival game centered around a group of hikers lost in a vast mountain range when they are attacked. The hikers must reach the evac helicopter before it's too late!
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ARK: Survival Evolved
Single-player alternative to Skylands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Skylands.
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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Terraria
Single-player alternative to Skylands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Skylands.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!