Single-player games like Penkura
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Penkura, 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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Stoneguard
Single-player alternative to Penkura — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Penkura.
To protect the magical Lifestone, you must strategise, manage and build a fortified settlement. Lead your fellow survivors into battle against waves of nocturnal monsters who wish to take this precious Lifestone from your world.
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Last Hope on Earth
Single-player alternative to Penkura — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Penkura.
An single/multiplayer game of survival in a desolated post-war future world. A group of clone challenges the dangers of a forbidden Earth trying to survive against monsters made of pure radiation.
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Heat Death: Survival Train
Single-player alternative to Penkura — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Penkura.
Heat Death is a sci-fi survival game where you can build, upgrade, and customize your battle train to explore and survive a frozen world! This train is not only your shelter and vehicle, but also your weapon and ally to face hostile drones, deadly storms, and hidden mysteries of an unknown world!
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Survivalist: Invisible Strain
Single-player alternative to Penkura — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Penkura.
It's ten years since the infection started. Long-established settlements are collapsing, one by one, for unknown reasons. Survivors are running to the hills to escape, hoping for safety in remote places. As another refugee, you're here to carve out a new life for yourself - by any means necessary.
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Godsworn
Single-player alternative to Penkura — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Penkura.
Godsworn is a classic mythological RTS. Experience an epic fantasy retelling of the Baltic Crusades, where pagan gods and their tribes clash against crusaders and armies of heaven. Choose a divine hero, rally worshippers alongside mythical creatures, and smite the unworthy!
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Nightingale
Single-player alternative to Penkura — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Penkura.
Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.
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Voidtrain
Single-player alternative to Penkura — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Penkura.
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
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Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to Penkura — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Penkura.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
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System Shock
Single-player alternative to Penkura — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Penkura.
A first-person fight to the death in the depths of space!
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SOMA
Single-player alternative to Penkura — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Penkura.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.
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Subnautica
Single-player alternative to Penkura — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Penkura.
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
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DOOM
Single-player alternative to Penkura — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Penkura.
Now includes all three premium DLC packs (Unto the Evil, Hell Followed, and Bloodfall), maps, modes, and weapons, as well as all feature updates including Arcade Mode, Photo Mode, and the latest Update 6.66, which brings further multiplayer improvements as well as revamps multiplayer progression.
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The Planet Crafter
Single-player alternative to Penkura — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Penkura.
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
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Half-Life
Single-player alternative to Penkura — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Penkura.
Named Game of the Year by over 50 publications, Valve's debut title blends action and adventure with award-winning technology to create a frighteningly realistic world where players must think to survive. Also includes an exciting multiplayer mode that allows you to play against friends and enemies around the world.
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Eden Crafters
Single-player alternative to Penkura — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Penkura.
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
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Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition
Single-player alternative to Penkura — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Penkura.
The year is 2052 and the world is a dangerous and chaotic place. Terrorists operate openly - killing thousands; drugs, disease and pollution kill even more. The world's economies are close to collapse and the gap between the insanely wealthy and the desperately poor grows ever wider.