Single-player games like Forager
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Forager, 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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Core Keeper
Single-player alternative to Forager — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Forager.
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
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Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to Forager — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Forager.
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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Survive on Raft
Single-player alternative to Forager — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Forager.
Survive on Raft is a Survival Sandbox Simulator on the Raft in the middle of the ocean! Fight with shark, build base, craft, loot islands, farm and survive. Play solo or with friends.
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Outpath
Single-player alternative to Forager — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Forager.
An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
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Nova Lands
Single-player alternative to Forager — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Forager.
Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!
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Voidtrain
Single-player alternative to Forager — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Forager.
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 Forager — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Forager.
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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Factorio
Single-player alternative to Forager — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Forager.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
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Stardew Valley
Single-player alternative to Forager — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Forager.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
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Vexlands
Single-player alternative to Forager — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Forager.
Vexlands is a realm of surprises. Every newly opened space brings a surprise: loot, resources, dungeons, monsters and disasters! Build your village where you craft new equipment before you explore uncharted areas, and find relics that explain who came before and why these lands are cursed.
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Child of Light
Single-player alternative to Forager — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Aurora, a young girl from 1895 Austria, awakens on the lost fairytale continent of Lemuria. To return home she must fight against the dark creatures of the Queen of the Night, who have stolen the sun, the moon and the stars. At stake is not only Lemuria, but Aurora’s true destiny.
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Terraria
Single-player alternative to Forager — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Forager.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!