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Single-player games like Grounded

Below are 22 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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    Green Hell — Steam game cover

    Green Hell

    Single-player alternative to Grounded — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grounded.

    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.

    2019ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Grounded 2 — Steam game cover

    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.

    2025ActionAdventureEarly Access29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Raft — Steam game cover

    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!

    2022IndieAdventureSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Forest — Steam game cover

    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.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Valheim — Steam game cover

    Valheim

    Single-player alternative to Grounded — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grounded.

    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!

    2021ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Voidtrain — Steam game cover

    Voidtrain

    Single-player alternative to Grounded — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grounded.

    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.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Satisfactory — Steam game cover

    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!

    2024StrategyIndieAdventure39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Sons Of The Forest — Steam game cover

    Sons Of The Forest

    Single-player alternative to Grounded — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Grounded.

    Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure29.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Subnautica — Steam game cover

    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.

    2018IndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Smalland: Survive the Wilds — Steam game cover

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure34.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Don't Starve — Steam game cover

    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.

    2013IndieAdventureSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Abiotic Factor — Steam game cover

    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.

    2025ActionAdventureSimulation27.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Windrose — Steam game cover

    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!

    2026ActionAdventureRPG29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord — Steam game cover

    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.

    2022ActionStrategyIndie49.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series — Steam game cover

    Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series

    Single-player alternative to Grounded — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Grounded.

    Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.

    2015AdventureDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Fallout: New Vegas — Steam game cover

    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!

    2010ActionRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    South Park™: The Stick of Truth™ — Steam game cover

    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.

    2014ActionAdventureRPG29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Outer Worlds — Steam game cover

    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.

    2020RPG29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    STAR WARS™ Knights of the Old Republic™ II - The Sith Lords™ — Steam game cover

    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?

    2012RPG2.49 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Pillars of Eternity — Steam game cover

    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.

    2015RPG39.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire — Steam game cover

    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.

    2018RPG39.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Fallout: New Vegas — Steam game cover

    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!

    2010ActionRPGSingle-playerSimilar games →