Single-player games like Before We Leave
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Before We Leave, 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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Let Them Trade
Single-player alternative to Before We Leave — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Before We Leave.
Build a network of cities that produce and trade resources, upgrade your castle, and protect the cities from cheeky bandits. Tinker with the economy at your own pace, and watch the charming wooden world grow into a lively and thriving kingdom.
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Imagine Earth
Single-player alternative to Before We Leave — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Before We Leave.
Build your own global colonies on distant worlds. Manage energy and resource supplies and produce goods for space trade. Form economic and diplomatic alliances or take over competing corporations. Conduct research to protect your colonists from disasters and avoid a climate crisis.
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City Tales - Medieval Era
Single-player alternative to Before We Leave — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Before We Leave.
City Tales is a medieval city builder, allowing you to unleash your creativity and shape vast cities that break outside a traditional grid. Plan each district for your citizens needs and aid your companions in their tales, creating a city to be proud of!
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Foundation
Single-player alternative to Before We Leave — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Before We Leave.
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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Airborne Kingdom
Single-player alternative to Before We Leave — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Before We Leave.
The sky city builder awaits. Create your own flying kingdom and lead it on a quest across an expansive world. Explore the varied landscape, build up a floating metropolis, aid struggling people below, uncover lost secrets and, ultimately, bring back the Airborne Kingdom legend.
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TerraScape
Single-player alternative to Before We Leave — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Before We Leave.
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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Surviving Mars
Single-player alternative to Before We Leave — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Before We Leave.
There will be challenges to overcome. Execute your strategy and improve your colony’s chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world. Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.
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Banished
Single-player alternative to Before We Leave — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Before We Leave.
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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Factorio
Single-player alternative to Before We Leave — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Before We Leave.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
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Save the settlers
Single-player alternative to Before We Leave — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Before We Leave.
This is a tower defense game in which you have to defend a settlement from bloodthirsty creatures.
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The Settlers: New Allies
Single-player alternative to Before We Leave — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Before We Leave.
The Settlers®: New Allies is a strategy game with an in-depth build-up experience and real-time strategic battles.
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Beyond These Stars
Single-player alternative to Before We Leave — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Before We Leave.
Build a city on the back of a Space Whale and learn to coexist as you journey through the stars. Manage intricate supply chains and the needs of your people as you build outposts, meet aliens, and uncover the mysteries of the universe.