Single-player games like The Survivalists
Below are 19 single-player Steam games similar to The Survivalists, 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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Green Hell
Single-player alternative to The Survivalists — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Survivalists.
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
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Grounded
Single-player alternative to The Survivalists — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Survivalists.
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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Terraria
Single-player alternative to The Survivalists — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Survivalists.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
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Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to The Survivalists — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Survivalists.
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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Core Keeper
Single-player alternative to The Survivalists — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Survivalists.
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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Starbound
Single-player alternative to The Survivalists — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Survivalists.
You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...
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Voidtrain
Single-player alternative to The Survivalists — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Survivalists.
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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ASTRONEER
Single-player alternative to The Survivalists — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Survivalists.
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.
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Stardew Valley
Single-player alternative to The Survivalists — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Survivalists.
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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The Escapists
Single-player alternative to The Survivalists — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Survivalists.
The Escapists provides players the opportunity of experiencing a light-hearted insight into everyday prison life with the main objective being that of escaping!
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Cannibal Crossing
Single-player alternative to The Survivalists — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Survivalists.
Cannibal Crossing is an action-survival game where you explore the randomly generated town of Earlsboro while scavenging, fighting hordes of enemies, building a base, and searching for a way to escape! Meet survivors with new abilities and lots of cannibals. Includes a co-op mode for 1-4 players!
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V Rising
Single-player alternative to The Survivalists — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Survivalists.
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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Conan Exiles
Single-player alternative to The Survivalists — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Survivalists.
An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.
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Valheim
Single-player alternative to The Survivalists — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Survivalists.
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!
- 15
Overcooked! 2
Single-player alternative to The Survivalists — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Survivalists.
Overcooked returns with a brand-new helping of chaotic cooking action! Journey back to the Onion Kingdom and assemble your team of chefs in classic couch co-op or online play for up to four players. Hold onto your aprons… it’s time to save the world again!
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Golf With Your Friends
Single-player alternative to The Survivalists — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The Survivalists.
Why have friends if not to play Golf... With Your Friends! Nothing is out of bounds as you take on courses filled with fast paced, exciting, simultaneous mini golf for up to 12 players!
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The Escapists 2
Single-player alternative to The Survivalists — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Survivalists.
Craft, Steal, Brawl and Escape! It’s time to bust out of the toughest prisons in the world as you return to the life of an inmate in The Escapists 2, now with multiplayer! Have you got what it takes to escape?
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Worms W.M.D
Single-player alternative to The Survivalists — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Survivalists.
The worms are back in their most destructive game yet. With a gorgeous, hand-drawn 2D look, brand new weapons, the introduction of crafting, vehicles and buildings plus the return of some much-loved classic weapons and gameplay, Worms W.M.D is the best worms experience ever.
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Killer Frequency
Single-player alternative to The Survivalists — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Survivalists.
Killer Frequency is a first-person horror puzzle game set in 1987, that puts you in the role of a late-night radio talk show host in small town America whose callers are being stalked by a mysterious killer.