Single-player games like Smalland: Survive the Wilds
Below are 13 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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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?
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Valheim
Single-player alternative to Smalland: Survive the Wilds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Smalland: Survive the Wilds.
A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
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Enshrouded
Single-player alternative to Smalland: Survive the Wilds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Smalland: Survive the Wilds.
Enshrouded is a solo and co-op survival action RPG where your freedom and creativity come first. Conquer the Shroud, a corrupting fog devouring the kingdom of Embervale: explore a handcrafted world full of secrets, forge your hero your way, and build anything, anywhere in a fully terraformable land.
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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.
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The Survivalists
Single-player alternative to Smalland: Survive the Wilds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Smalland: Survive the Wilds.
A living world full of surprises, secrets and danger awaits in The Survivalists, an adventure-filled survival sandbox set in The Escapists universe. Explore, build, craft and even train monkeys with up to three friends in a desperate bid to survive. Have you got what it takes to be a Survivalist?
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Sunkenland
Single-player alternative to Smalland: Survive the Wilds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Smalland: Survive the Wilds.
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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Core Keeper
Single-player alternative to Smalland: Survive the Wilds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Smalland: Survive the Wilds.
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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ICARUS
Single-player alternative to Smalland: Survive the Wilds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Smalland: Survive the Wilds.
ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Palworld
Single-player alternative to Smalland: Survive the Wilds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Smalland: Survive the Wilds.
Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!