Single-player games like Hobo: Tough Life
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Hobo: Tough Life, 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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Green Hell
Single-player alternative to Hobo: Tough Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hobo: Tough Life.
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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Bum Simulator
Single-player alternative to Hobo: Tough Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hobo: Tough Life.
Bum Simulator is a sandbox game bursting with inappropriate humor and memorable characters. You live on the streets of Bumsville. Do you have what it takes to adapt, survive and become an urban legend?
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Medieval Dynasty
Single-player alternative to Hobo: Tough Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hobo: Tough Life.
Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.
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This War of Mine
Single-player alternative to Hobo: Tough Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hobo: Tough Life.
In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle.
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Kenshi
Single-player alternative to Hobo: Tough Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hobo: Tough Life.
A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.
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Don't Starve Together
Single-player alternative to Hobo: Tough Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hobo: Tough Life.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
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Survivalist
Single-player alternative to Hobo: Tough Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hobo: Tough Life.
It's one year after the collapse of civilization and self-centered hedge fund manager Joe Wheeler emerges from his specially constructed bunker in search of food. This is a huge open-world RPG where you have the freedom to play how you want - but your choices have consequences.
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Sheltered
Single-player alternative to Hobo: Tough Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Hobo: Tough Life.
Sheltered is a deep and emotional survival management game. You take on the role of protecting four family members who, after a global apocalypse, have found their way to a deserted shelter.
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POSTAL 2
Single-player alternative to Hobo: Tough Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hobo: Tough Life.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Single-player alternative to Hobo: Tough Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Hobo: Tough Life.
EPIC FANTASY REBORN The next chapter in the highly anticipated Elder Scrolls saga arrives from the makers of the 2006 and 2008 Games of the Year, Bethesda Game Studios. Skyrim reimagines and revolutionizes the open-world fantasy epic, bringing to life a complete virtual world open for you to explore any way you choose.
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CHANGE: A Homeless Survival Experience
Single-player alternative to Hobo: Tough Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hobo: Tough Life.
CHANGE is an award nominated homeless survival experience set in a randomly created city with rogue-like elements. Explore, survive, earn perks, find items & kindness to develop your character & escape to a new life. Over 7 years of development & over 200 updates so far!
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Obenseuer
Single-player alternative to Hobo: Tough Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Hobo: Tough Life.
Obenseuer is an urban survival RPG game, where you become a property manager of a rundown unfinished tenement building, in an isolated quarantine district of Obenseuer. Maintain and upgrade your tenement for rent, uncover the secrets of this infamous district and grow your wealth with your craft.
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Keep Driving
Single-player alternative to Hobo: Tough Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hobo: Tough Life.
An atmospheric management RPG about life on the open road. Pick up hitchhikers, work odd jobs, customize and repair your car, and map your route across the country. Use upgrades, skills and items to overcome challenges. And remember to take it easy. You’re young. You have time.
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Plains of Pain
Single-player alternative to Hobo: Tough Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hobo: Tough Life.
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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Kvark
Single-player alternative to Hobo: Tough Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Hobo: Tough Life.
Kvark is an FPS game set in a fictional version of the 80s Czech Republic. The player finds themselves in an underground facility that is falling apart as they travel through it. They will have to navigate through dark tunnels and will encounter many obstacles and enemies that will test their skills
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Kromlech
Single-player alternative to Hobo: Tough Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Hobo: Tough Life.
Kromlech is an action-adventure RPG with rogue-lite elements, set in a dark fantasy world of swords and sorcery. Play as an adventurer whose quest for glory and gold takes an unexpected turn when he finds himself at the center of a world-ending calamity.