Single-player games like Crafting Dead
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Crafting Dead, 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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Zector 7
Single-player alternative to Crafting Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Crafting Dead.
Craft, Build and Fight alongside your friends across this deadly open-world. Use both modern day and sci-fi tech as you Loot, Harvest and Trade for resources, gear and vehicles in order to survive the wasteland.
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Soviet Survival
Single-player alternative to Crafting Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Crafting Dead.
Soviet Survival is an isometric, open-world survival game where you must find your place in the ruined Soviet Union.
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HumanitZ
Single-player alternative to Crafting Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Crafting Dead.
HumanitZ is an isometric, open-world sandbox survival game set in a world ended by a zombie outbreak. Survive alone or with friends by scavenging, crafting, building, and fighting to last as long as ‘humanly’ possible. You can’t change the past, but you can fight for the future of humanity.
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DeadPoly
Single-player alternative to Crafting Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Crafting Dead.
DeadPoly is a polygon arcade zombie survival looter shooter with base building, crafting, scavenging, leveling, questing, and more, but your only goal is survival, everything else is optional.
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PolyZ
Single-player alternative to Crafting Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Crafting Dead.
Imagine DayZ mixed with Escape From Tarkov, but in Low Poly. A persistent world survival game featuring PvP, PvE, crafting, base-building, and zombies infected with a contagious virus.
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7 Days to Die
Single-player alternative to Crafting Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Crafting Dead.
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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VEIN
Single-player alternative to Crafting Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Early Access with Crafting Dead.
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 Crafting Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Early Access with Crafting Dead.
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..
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Left 4 Dead
Single-player alternative to Crafting Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Crafting Dead.
From Valve (the creators of Counter-Strike, Half-Life and more) comes Left 4 Dead, a co-op action horror game for the PC and Xbox 360 that casts up to four players in an epic struggle for survival against swarming zombie hordes and terrifying mutant monsters.
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Unturned
Single-player alternative to Crafting Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Crafting Dead.
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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World War Z
Single-player alternative to Crafting Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Crafting Dead.
World War Z is a heart-pounding coop third-person shooter for up to 4 players featuring massive swarms of hundreds of zombies, focused on fast-paced, gruesomely spectacular action.
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SurrounDead
Single-player alternative to Crafting Dead — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Crafting Dead.
SurrounDead is an open world survival game. Taking place in a world ravaged by an apocalyptic catastrophe. The dead reign free and will stop at nothing to kill you.