Single-player games like Screeps: Arena
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Screeps: Arena, 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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Screeps: World
Single-player alternative to Screeps: Arena — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Screeps: Arena.
Screeps: World is an open source MMO strategy sandbox game for programming enthusiasts. You control your colony by writing JavaScript code that operates 24/7 in the huge persistent online open world.
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GLADIABOTS - AI Combat Arena
Single-player alternative to Screeps: Arena — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Screeps: Arena.
Assemble your robot squad, construct their AI and send them in the battle arena to see your strategy play out. Iterate, improve and repeat until you outsmart all your opponents and friends online.
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Desynced
Single-player alternative to Screeps: Arena — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Screeps: Arena.
Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.
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Factorio
Single-player alternative to Screeps: Arena — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Screeps: Arena.
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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Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation
Single-player alternative to Screeps: Arena — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Screeps: Arena.
A massive-scale real-time strategy game where you command entire armies on a dynamic battlefield. Conquer multiple worlds across several single-player campaigns; or play with your friends in multiplayer combat.
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Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to Screeps: Arena — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Screeps: Arena.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
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Stormgate
Single-player alternative to Screeps: Arena — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Screeps: Arena.
Stormgate is a free-to-play real-time strategy game with a full single-player campaign, 3-player co-op, and PvP versus modes on over 60 maps. Our Editor is also freely available for you to craft just about any custom game mode you can imagine. Join our development journey today!
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Athena Crisis
Single-player alternative to Screeps: Arena — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Screeps: Arena.
Athena Crisis is a modern retro turn-based strategy game that places you in command of 40+ units in your journey across the multiverse. Embark on a challenging single-player quest or dive into the thrill of ranked or casual multiplayer modes to become the best Athena Crisis player!