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.
Want the full alternatives list (paid + free + Steam Deck + cheaper picks)? See the parent games like Scorchlands page.
Ranked picks
- 1
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.
- 2
Ratopia
Single-player alternative to Scorchlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Scorchlands.
Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.
- 3
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!
- 4
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.
- 5
Reus 2
Single-player alternative to Scorchlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Scorchlands.
Shape worlds with your godly titans. Make symbiotic ecosystems and inspire humanity with your creations. Their achievements unlock new possibilities. Make different planets for different human spirits, and fill the universe with life!
- 6
Prison Architect
Single-player alternative to Scorchlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Scorchlands.
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
- 7
Cliff Empire
Single-player alternative to Scorchlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Scorchlands.
After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!
- 8
Foundation
Single-player alternative to Scorchlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Scorchlands.
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
- 9
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!
- 10
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.
- 11
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.
- 12
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!
- 13
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?