Single-player games like The Riftbreaker
Below are 18 single-player Steam games similar to The Riftbreaker, 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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The Riftbreaker: Prologue
Single-player alternative to The Riftbreaker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Riftbreaker.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
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Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to The Riftbreaker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Riftbreaker.
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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Dig or Die
Single-player alternative to The Riftbreaker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Riftbreaker.
Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.
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Factorio
Single-player alternative to The Riftbreaker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Riftbreaker.
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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They Are Billions
Single-player alternative to The Riftbreaker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with The Riftbreaker.
They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?
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Grim Dawn
Single-player alternative to The Riftbreaker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Riftbreaker.
Enter an apocalyptic fantasy world where humanity is on the brink of extinction, iron is valued above gold and trust is hard earned. This ARPG features complex character development, hundreds of unique items, crafting and quests with choice & consequence.
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V Rising
Single-player alternative to The Riftbreaker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Riftbreaker.
Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.
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Abiotic Factor
Single-player alternative to The Riftbreaker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Riftbreaker.
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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Dyson Sphere Program
Single-player alternative to The Riftbreaker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Riftbreaker.
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
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Mindustry
Single-player alternative to The Riftbreaker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with The Riftbreaker.
An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.
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SC2VN - The eSports Visual Novel
Single-player alternative to The Riftbreaker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Indie with The Riftbreaker.
SC2VN is a visual novel about the South Korean StarCraft 2 scene. You play as Mach, a foreign semi-pro trying to make it in eSports who soon learns that success in StarCraft takes more than in-game strategy.
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Path of Exile 2
Single-player alternative to The Riftbreaker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Riftbreaker.
Path of Exile 2 is a next generation Action RPG from Grinding Gear Games, featuring co-op for up to six players. Set years after the original Path of Exile, you will return to the dark world of Wraeclast and seek to end the corruption that is spreading.
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Age of Darkness: Final Stand
Single-player alternative to The Riftbreaker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with The Riftbreaker.
Age of Darkness: Final Stand is a dark fantasy survival RTS where you must illuminate, build and defend humanity’s last bastion against hordes of Nightmares. Set in the remnants of a kingdom consumed by a deadly fog, you decide. Will you hide in the light? Or take back your world.
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Tribes of Midgard
Single-player alternative to The Riftbreaker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Riftbreaker.
A vibrant blend of survival and action RPG for 1-10 players! Craft legendary items, grow your home base and embark on an epic journey through procedural realms to face towering creatures hel-bent on unleashing Ragnarök. Valhalla can wait, Einherjar!
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Colony Survival
Single-player alternative to The Riftbreaker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with The Riftbreaker.
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
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Dream Engines: Nomad Cities
Single-player alternative to The Riftbreaker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Strategy with The Riftbreaker.
A survival city-building game with flying cities. Build, automate, and defend a flying city that travels between procedurally generated maps to survive in a wacky, nightmare-infested, post-apocalyptic world full of strange science and dreams.
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X-Morph: Defense
Single-player alternative to The Riftbreaker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Riftbreaker.
Unique fusion of a top-down shooter and tower defense strategy. You are the invader! Use destructive weapons or lead your enemies into a maze of towers. Strategize in the build mode by carefully selecting various types of alien towers or throw yourself right into the heat of the battle.
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Zombie Driver HD
Single-player alternative to The Riftbreaker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Riftbreaker.
Insane mix of cars, speed, explosions, blood and zombies! Fight through an epic narrative campaign or test yourself in the Slaughter and Blood Race modes.