Single-player games like ISLANDERS
Below are 15 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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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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Dorfromantik
Single-player alternative to ISLANDERS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with ISLANDERS.
Dorfromantik is a peaceful building strategy and puzzle game where you create a beautiful and ever-growing village landscape by placing tiles. Explore a variety of colorful biomes, discover and unlock new tiles and complete quests to fill your world with life!
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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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Pan'orama
Single-player alternative to ISLANDERS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with ISLANDERS.
Relax and unleash your creativity in this new city building puzzle game. Create amazing landscapes and discover wide range of structures with special abilities. Enter the world of beauty and tranquility with the panoramas of your own creation and don't forget to pet your new animal friends!
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Foundation
Single-player alternative to ISLANDERS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with ISLANDERS.
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
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Banished
Single-player alternative to ISLANDERS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with ISLANDERS.
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
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Tile Cities
Single-player alternative to ISLANDERS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with ISLANDERS.
Tile Cities turns city-building experience into a simple relaxing puzzle game and does so with style
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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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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.