Single-player games like Scorchlands
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Scorchlands, 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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Imagine Earth
Single-player alternative to Scorchlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Scorchlands.
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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Pan'orama
Single-player alternative to Scorchlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Scorchlands.
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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Astro Colony
Single-player alternative to Scorchlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Scorchlands.
Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.
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Farlanders
Single-player alternative to Scorchlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Scorchlands.
Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.
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TerraScape
Single-player alternative to Scorchlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Scorchlands.
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 Scorchlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Scorchlands.
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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Before We Leave
Single-player alternative to Scorchlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Scorchlands.
Before We Leave is a city building game set in a cozy corner of the universe. Nurture your Peeps and their surroundings while rebuilding and rediscovering civilisation. Settle new lands and planets while avoiding hungry Space Whales.
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Mini Settlers
Single-player alternative to Scorchlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Scorchlands.
Mini Settlers is a minimalistic city builder! Settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.
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shapez
Single-player alternative to Scorchlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Scorchlands.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
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Factorio
Single-player alternative to Scorchlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Scorchlands.
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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ISLANDERS
Single-player alternative to Scorchlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Scorchlands.
ISLANDERS is a minimalist strategy game about building cities on colorful islands.
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Dorfromantik
Single-player alternative to Scorchlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Scorchlands.
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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Blue Prince
Single-player alternative to Scorchlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Scorchlands.
Welcome to Mt. Holly, where every dawn unveils a new mystery. Navigate through shifting corridors and ever-changing chambers in this genre-defying strategy puzzle adventure. But will your unpredictable path lead you to the rumored Room 46?