Single-player games like Grounded
Below are 21 single-player Steam games similar to Grounded, 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 2
Single-player alternative to Grounded — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grounded.
Shrunk again, but the world is much larger. In this open-world, single-player or co-op survival adventure, craft weapons and armor, build your base, and traverse the playground on your buggy. But something else is out there—and it hasn’t forgotten you.
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Subnautica
Single-player alternative to Grounded — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Grounded.
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
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Valheim
Single-player alternative to Grounded — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grounded.
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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The Forest
Single-player alternative to Grounded — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grounded.
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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Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to Grounded — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Grounded.
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 Grounded — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grounded.
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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Abiotic Factor
Single-player alternative to Grounded — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grounded.
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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Smalland: Survive the Wilds
Single-player alternative to Grounded — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grounded.
Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.
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Don't Starve
Single-player alternative to Grounded — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Grounded.
Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.
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Windrose
Single-player alternative to Grounded — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grounded.
Embark on a PvE survival adventure in the Age of Piracy. Fight on land and sea, solo or with friends. Build, craft and explore vast open world filled with dark secrets. Master soulslite combat and take on challenging bosses, command your ship and plunder unspoken treasures!
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Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
Single-player alternative to Grounded — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Grounded.
A strategy/action RPG. Create a character, engage in diplomacy, craft, trade and conquer new lands in a vast medieval sandbox. Raise armies to lead into battle and command and fight alongside your troops in massive real-time battles using a deep but intuitive skill-based combat system.
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Terraria
Single-player alternative to Grounded — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grounded.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
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Raft
Single-player alternative to Grounded — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Grounded.
Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!
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No Man's Sky
Single-player alternative to Grounded — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grounded.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Single-player alternative to Grounded — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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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Fallout: New Vegas
Single-player alternative to Grounded — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Grounded.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
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South Park™: The Stick of Truth™
Single-player alternative to Grounded — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grounded.
From the perilous battlefields of the fourth-grade playground, a young hero will rise, destined to be South Park’s savior. From the creators of South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, comes an epic quest to become… cool. Introducing South Park™: The Stick of Truth™.For a thousand years, the battle has been waged.
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The Outer Worlds
Single-player alternative to Grounded — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The Outer Worlds is an award-winning single-player RPG from Obsidian Entertainment and Private Division. As you explore a space colony, the character you decide to become will determine how this player-driven story unfolds. In the colony's corporate equation, you are the unplanned variable.
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STAR WARS™ Knights of the Old Republic™ II - The Sith Lords™
Single-player alternative to Grounded — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
5 years after the events of the award winning original, the Sith are on the verge of crushing the Old Republic. As a lone Jedi, will you follow the light side or succumb to the dark?
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Pillars of Eternity
Single-player alternative to Grounded — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Prepare to be enchanted by a world where the choices you make and the paths you choose shape your destiny. Obsidian Entertainment, the developer of Fallout: New Vegas™ and South Park: The Stick of Truth™, together with Paradox Interactive is proud to present Pillars of Eternity.
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Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire
Single-player alternative to Grounded — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Patch 5.0 - Turn-based mode and The Ultimate challenge out now! Pursue a rogue god over land and sea in the sequel to the multi-award-winning RPG Pillars of Eternity. Captain your ship on a dangerous voyage of discovery across the vast unexplored archipelago region of the Deadfire.