Single-player games like Embark
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Embark, 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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Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
Single-player alternative to Embark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Embark.
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
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Sapiens
Single-player alternative to Embark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Embark.
Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.
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Colony Survival
Single-player alternative to Embark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Embark.
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
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Noble Fates
Single-player alternative to Embark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Embark.
Harness your Demigod powers to lead a group from rags to riches in this 3D Fantasy Kingdom Management Sim with RPG elements. Command from the sky or take control in 3rd Person to BUILD, BATTLE, and RULE. Navigate a world of interesting Nobles, earn their respect, and decide their Fates.
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First Feudal
Single-player alternative to Embark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Embark.
Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.
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Dwarf Fortress
Single-player alternative to Embark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Embark.
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
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Norland
Single-player alternative to Embark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Embark.
Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.
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Founders' Fortune
Single-player alternative to Embark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Embark.
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
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Oxygen Not Included
Single-player alternative to Embark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Embark.
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
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RimWorld
Single-player alternative to Embark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Embark.
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
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Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
Single-player alternative to Embark — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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.
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The Sims™ 4
Single-player alternative to Embark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Embark.
Play with life and discover the possibilities. Unleash your imagination and create a world of Sims that’s wholly unique. Explore and customize every detail from Sims to homes–and much more.
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The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
Single-player alternative to Embark — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The year is 1962 and the Cold War has the nation gripped by fear. A top-secret government unit called The Bureau begins investigating a series of mysterious attacks by an enemy more powerful than communism.
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Minecraft Legends
Single-player alternative to Embark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Embark.
Discover the mysteries of Minecraft Legends, a new action strategy game. Explore a gentle land of rich resources and lush biomes on the brink of destruction. The ravaging piglins have arrived, and it’s up to you to inspire your allies and lead them in strategic battles to save the Overworld!
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Towns
Single-player alternative to Embark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Embark.
The game brings a fresh new take on the city building/management genre by introducing many RPG features. In Towns you manage a settlement on top of an active dungeon. Instead of playing the hero who delves deep into the dungeon, how about playing the town that houses and caters to the hero's needs?