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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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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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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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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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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Occupy Mars: The Game
Single-player alternative to Penkura — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Indie with Penkura.
Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.
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Forever Skies
Single-player alternative to Penkura — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Penkura.
A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.
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Abiotic Factor
Single-player alternative to Penkura — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Penkura.
Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.
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Planetaries
Single-player alternative to Penkura — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Penkura.
Experience a vast Sci-fi open-world survival TD game set on a distant planet deep in the universe. Craft, build, mine, trade, explore, and survive in this alien world. Collect Data and defend against waves of enemies seeking to banish you. Enjoy the adventure in Singleplayer or Multiplayer.
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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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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.
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Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition
Single-player alternative to Penkura — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Penkura.
Unreal Tournament is the original King of the Hill in the frag-or-be-fragged multiplayer gaming world. As the undisputed 1999 Game of the Year, Unreal Tournament grabbed the first person shooter genre by the soiled seat of its pants and knocked it around the room with its never-before-seen graphics, brutal edge-of-your-seat gameplay and...