Single-player games like Deadburg
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Deadburg, 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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CastleMiner Z
Single-player alternative to Deadburg — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Deadburg.
CastleMiner Z is an infinite world filled with deep places to explore, and horrifying monsters to slay. Build structures out of blocks, craft weapons and tools from raw materials, and explore the vast and frightening world around you.
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Don't Starve Together
Single-player alternative to Deadburg — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Deadburg.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
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DeadPoly
Single-player alternative to Deadburg — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Deadburg.
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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Zombie Survival Game Online
Single-player alternative to Deadburg — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Deadburg.
Zombie Survival Game Online is an open-world, post-apocalyptic, looter shooter. Craft, quest, explore, build, and fight for survival. Parkour up a mountainside, ramp a truck over a horde, and grab a gasmask to explore the sewers. Can you survive? Doubtful.
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The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™
Single-player alternative to Deadburg — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Deadburg.
A survival crafting adventure set in the Fourth Age of Middle-earth. Lead the Dwarves to reclaim Moria - mine, build, and battle through procedurally generated depths alone or with up to 8 players in co-op. It is time to return to Moria!
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How to Survive 2
Single-player alternative to Deadburg — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Deadburg.
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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Project Zomboid
Single-player alternative to Deadburg — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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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Valheim
Single-player alternative to Deadburg — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Deadburg.
A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
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7 Days to Die
Single-player alternative to Deadburg — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Deadburg.
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!