Single-player games like Mist Survival
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Mist Survival, 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 Infected
Single-player alternative to Mist Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Mist Survival.
The Infected is a sandbox, first-person, open-world survival game. Build bases, craft, farm, hunt, and survive changing seasons. Choose whether to face the hybrid “Vambies” or turn them off for a pure survival experience.
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Subsistence
Single-player alternative to Mist Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Early Access with Mist Survival.
Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).
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Green Hell
Single-player alternative to Mist Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Mist Survival.
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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Night of the Dead
Single-player alternative to Mist Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Mist Survival.
'Night of the Dead' is an open-world game that combines elements of exploration, tower defense, survival, and crafting. Traverse a world dominated by zombies while collecting various resources and powerful equipment. Build a fortress to survive the hordes of zombies that swarm every night!
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The Forest
Single-player alternative to Mist Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Mist Survival.
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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The Long Dark
Single-player alternative to Mist Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mist Survival.
THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.
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Survival: Fountain of Youth
Single-player alternative to Mist Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Mist Survival.
Survival: Fountain of Youth is a challenging single-player open-world adventure game set on the Caribbean islands. Survive as a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer, craft tools and shelter, and uncover the secrets of both an ancient civilization and your own fate.
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SCUM
Single-player alternative to Mist Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Mist Survival.
Traverse punishing environments, looting, crafting and evading the constant threats to your life. The unprecedented levels of character customization and progression are your ultimate tools for survival.
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7 Days to Die
Single-player alternative to Mist Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Mist Survival.
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
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SurrounDead
Single-player alternative to Mist Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Mist Survival.
SurrounDead is an open world survival game. Taking place in a world ravaged by an apocalyptic catastrophe. The dead reign free and will stop at nothing to kill you.
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Dying Light: The Beast
Single-player alternative to Mist Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Mist Survival.
BECOME THE BEAST. SURVIVE THE NIGHT. A terrifying new chapter in the Dying Light universe begins. As Kyle Crane, explore the vast and unpredictable wilderness, uncover a deadly evolution of the infected, and learn to control the beastly powers awakening inside you.
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Project Zomboid
Single-player alternative to Mist Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Mist Survival.
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
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No One Survived
Single-player alternative to Mist Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mist Survival.
This is a multiplayer cooperative open world construction survival sandbox game, where you and your friends must find supplies and build shelters in this world. You have to keep an eye on your character's needs state at all times, a bad state is likely to lead to death.
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State of Decay
Single-player alternative to Mist Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Simulation with Mist Survival.
The end is here. Life as you knew it has gone to hell after the mother of all zombie outbreaks. Now you and the few scattered survivors must band together to survive and rebuild in a 3rd-person action game set in a dynamic open world.
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VEIN
Single-player alternative to Mist Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Simulation with Mist Survival.
VEIN is a post-apocalyptic survival multiplayer sandbox game. Gather supplies to survive, explore abandoned buildings, defend your home, and rebuild society, whether alone or with friends.