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Single-player games like Smalland: Survive the Wilds

Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Smalland: Survive the Wilds, 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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    Enshrouded — Steam game cover

    Enshrouded

    Single-player alternative to Smalland: Survive the Wilds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Smalland: Survive the Wilds.

    You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure23.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Grounded — Steam game cover

    Grounded

    Single-player alternative to Smalland: Survive the Wilds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Smalland: Survive the Wilds.

    The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?

    2022ActionAdventure39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™ — Steam game cover

    The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™

    Single-player alternative to Smalland: Survive the Wilds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Smalland: Survive the Wilds.

    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!

    2024ActionAdventureRPG29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Voidtrain — Steam game cover

    Voidtrain

    Single-player alternative to Smalland: Survive the Wilds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Smalland: Survive the Wilds.

    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.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Soulmask — Steam game cover

    Soulmask

    Single-player alternative to Smalland: Survive the Wilds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Smalland: Survive the Wilds.

    Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.

    2026IndieAdventureSimulation29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper — Steam game cover

    Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper

    Single-player alternative to Smalland: Survive the Wilds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Smalland: Survive the Wilds.

    Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper offers incredible adventures full of mystery, danger, exploration and magic. This game combines the genres of Survival, Sandbox, Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Resource Management

    2021ActionStrategyIndie15.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Valheim — Steam game cover

    Valheim

    Single-player alternative to Smalland: Survive the Wilds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Smalland: Survive the Wilds.

    A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!

    2021ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Nightingale — Steam game cover

    Nightingale

    Single-player alternative to Smalland: Survive the Wilds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Smalland: Survive the Wilds.

    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.

    2024ActionAdventureRPG29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition — Steam game cover

    The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition

    Single-player alternative to Smalland: Survive the Wilds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Smalland: Survive the Wilds.

    The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition includes Morrowind plus all of the content from the Bloodmoon and Tribunal expansions. The original Mod Construction Set is not included in this package. An epic, open-ended single-player RPG, Morrowind allows you to create and play any kind of character imaginable.

    2009RPG14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim — Steam game cover

    The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

    Single-player alternative to Smalland: Survive the Wilds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Smalland: Survive the Wilds.

    EPIC FANTASY REBORN The next chapter in the highly anticipated Elder Scrolls saga arrives from the makers of the 2006 and 2008 Games of the Year, Bethesda Game Studios. Skyrim reimagines and revolutionizes the open-world fantasy epic, bringing to life a complete virtual world open for you to explore any way you choose.

    2011RPG19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Forest — Steam game cover

    The Forest

    Single-player alternative to Smalland: Survive the Wilds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Smalland: Survive the Wilds.

    As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    SOULS — Steam game cover

    SOULS

    Single-player alternative to Smalland: Survive the Wilds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Smalland: Survive the Wilds.

    One day, the boy meets a monster, with whom he builds a strange relationship that is neither friend, nor family, nor owner and pet. How will the boy's future change?

    2017IndieAdventure7.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Wish — Steam game cover

    Wish

    Single-player alternative to Smalland: Survive the Wilds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Smalland: Survive the Wilds.

    Soma, driven by destiny, begins his quest to save his home, Israfil Continent, which trembles in fear of an evil empress… Elf Pontifex, princess knight, the first vampire, etc , with the many beautiful women waiting for their stories to unravel, what will happen in the end of this adventure...?

    2020ActionIndieAdventure2.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Sons Of The Forest — Steam game cover

    Sons Of The Forest

    Single-player alternative to Smalland: Survive the Wilds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Smalland: Survive the Wilds.

    Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure29.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →