Single-player games like The Riftbreaker
Below are 17 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 Strategy 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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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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Factorio
Single-player alternative to The Riftbreaker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie 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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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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Machine Mind
Single-player alternative to The Riftbreaker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with The Riftbreaker.
Machine Mind is an action game in a post-apocalyptic setting with elements of survival and RTS. You will fight, craft modules, build your transport, develop and protect your base. You can control other vehicles to automate operations. Discover all the secrets of the destroyed world!
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Monster Outbreak
Single-player alternative to The Riftbreaker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with The Riftbreaker.
The King's dimensional orb has malfunctioned, bringing hordes of monsters into the Kingdom. Defend your safeground against the monsters by gathering resources, building defenses, upgrading your arsenal, and surviving long enough to find the source of monsters and destroy it.
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Dig or Die
Single-player alternative to The Riftbreaker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy 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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Beyond the Map
Single-player alternative to The Riftbreaker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with The Riftbreaker.
Isometric survival ARPG set in a procedurally generated fantasy world. Build your base, gear up, and venture out, chasing stronger enemies and better loot.
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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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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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Dyson Sphere Program
Single-player alternative to The Riftbreaker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie 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 Indie and Adventure 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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X-Morph: Defense
Single-player alternative to The Riftbreaker — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy 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.