Single-player games like ISLANDERS
Below are 18 single-player Steam games similar to ISLANDERS, 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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ISLANDERS: New Shores
Single-player alternative to ISLANDERS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with ISLANDERS.
Welcome to ISLANDERS: New Shores. Build your island retreat in a calm, minimalist world with exciting new features that keep the classic charm while inspiring fresh creativity.
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Planet Pioneers
Single-player alternative to ISLANDERS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with ISLANDERS.
Planet Pioneers is a relaxing building and puzzle game where you prepare new planets for settlers. Build tiles strategically, fulfill quests for your settlers, keep pollution low and enable new buildings along the way. Shape the planet as you wish until it’s time to move on to your next challenge.
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Match Village
Single-player alternative to ISLANDERS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with ISLANDERS.
Match Village is a minimalist puzzle and strategy game about merge buildings to create villages on colorful islands.
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Mini Motorways
Single-player alternative to ISLANDERS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with ISLANDERS.
Mini Motorways is a strategy simulation game about designing the road map for a growing city. Build a traffic network, one road at a time, to create a bustling metropolis. Redesign your roads and place your motorways to get everyone where they need to go. How long can you keep the city moving?
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Glory of Rome
Single-player alternative to ISLANDERS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with ISLANDERS.
Expand the Empire in the name of Rome. Build, manage and grow settlements in this resource driven city builder. You'll create resource, trade goods and cater to the needs of your citizens. The Senate calls administrator, don't keep them waiting.
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Sky Tale
Single-player alternative to ISLANDERS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with ISLANDERS.
Sky Tale is a cute city building game about creating lovely islands using various tiles and buildings.
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Tranquil Isle
Single-player alternative to ISLANDERS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with ISLANDERS.
Tranquil Isle is a lo-fi strategic townbuilder. Create cozy little settlements on the sun-kissed shores of your very own island paradise.
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AstroScaper
Single-player alternative to ISLANDERS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with ISLANDERS.
A relaxing puzzle city builder where you expand colonies on all sides of asteroids. Balance three core stats while placing buildings with proximity synergies. Plan efficient layouts, build train networks, and watch your settlements bloom in space.
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TerraScape
Single-player alternative to ISLANDERS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with ISLANDERS.
Build gorgeous kingdoms on floating islands by strategically placing buildings in this cozy, medieval City-Puzzler. Discover secret combinations, take on weekly challenges and explore randomly generated maps in various single- and multiplayer game modes.
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Stranger Things 3: The Game
Single-player alternative to ISLANDERS — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Stranger Things 3: The Game is the official companion game to Season 3 of the hit original series! Play through familiar events from the series while also uncovering never-before-seen quests, character interactions, and secrets!
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Tiny Civilization
Single-player alternative to ISLANDERS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with ISLANDERS.
This is a historical simulation game that promotes the development of civilization based on the match-3 Game. You'll need to gather resources, use skills, discover new technology, and lead humanbeing through a 10,000-year journey to the cosmos.
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Virtual Karting
Single-player alternative to ISLANDERS — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A ground-up karting simulator built on real racing experience. Authentic chassis flex, VR mimicked body weight shift, and tire dynamics that make a kart feel truly alive.
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Kingdom Two Crowns
Single-player alternative to ISLANDERS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with ISLANDERS.
Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.
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Chip
Single-player alternative to ISLANDERS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with ISLANDERS.
Chip is an isometric puzzle game with robots, electricity and fancy dress! The player must help recharge Chip - a plucky little red robot - who has been imprisoned by the nefarious villain, Rust.
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Shu
Single-player alternative to ISLANDERS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with ISLANDERS.
Shu is a stylish 2.5D platformer set in a beautiful and engrossing world. Guide Shu and a cast of beautifully hand-drawn characters as they run, jump and glide their way across exotic lands, forever pursued by the monstrous and unrelenting Storm. CAN YOU OUTRUN THE END OF THE WORLD?
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ESPER
Single-player alternative to ISLANDERS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with ISLANDERS.
As one of a small number of citizens who have been endowed with the power to move objects with their minds, you have been enrolled by the government to undertake a series of tests to show that you are in control of your powers.
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Astronimo
Single-player alternative to ISLANDERS — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Crash-landed and ill-prepared, you and your friends must build, break, and rebuild to escape. A chaotic co-op puzzler about creativity, comedy, and questionable engineering.
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Augmented Empire
Single-player alternative to ISLANDERS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with ISLANDERS.
Step into New Savannah, 2058 - a city divided by class and corruption, where your tactical choices spark a cyberpunk revolution. Assemble a team of misfits and lead them through 26 intense missions with deep strategy and immersive storytelling. Every decision shapes your rebellion.