Single-player games like Hold Your Own
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Hold Your Own, 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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Subsistence
Single-player alternative to Hold Your Own — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Early Access with Hold Your Own.
Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).
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Mist Survival
Single-player alternative to Hold Your Own — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hold Your Own.
MIST SURVIVAL is a Single-player, survival stealth sandbox game Players will experience the Apocalypse stimulation in the form of virus pandemic, the players have to deal with it to survive through the difficulties such as finding shelter and food, threats from the environment and climate: wild animals, bandits, infected, and dense mist t
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The Infected
Single-player alternative to Hold Your Own — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hold Your Own.
The Infected is a sandbox, first-person, open-world survival game. Build bases, craft, farm, hunt, and survive changing seasons. Choose whether to face the hybrid “Vambies” or turn them off for a pure survival experience.
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Rising World
Single-player alternative to Hold Your Own — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hold Your Own.
Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.
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Sunkenland
Single-player alternative to Hold Your Own — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hold Your Own.
Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?
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Night of the Dead
Single-player alternative to Hold Your Own — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hold Your Own.
'Night of the Dead' is an open-world game that combines elements of exploration, tower defense, survival, and crafting. Traverse a world dominated by zombies while collecting various resources and powerful equipment. Build a fortress to survive the hordes of zombies that swarm every night!
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Rem Survival
Single-player alternative to Hold Your Own — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hold Your Own.
Scavenge abandoned ruins, craft gear from scrap and salvaged materials, and fight the environment itself as hunger, exposure, and exhaustion push you to your limits. There are no second chances—only adaptation or death.
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Outbreak Island
Single-player alternative to Hold Your Own — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Hold Your Own.
Survive on a remote Island, where a mysterious Outbreak awakens bloodthirsty monsters at night. Craft, build and defend your base in the brutal world of Outbreak Island, an open-world sandbox survival horror game.