Single-player games like Survival Vacancy
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Survival Vacancy, 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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Factorio
Single-player alternative to Survival Vacancy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Survival Vacancy.
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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Hammerting
Single-player alternative to Survival Vacancy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Survival Vacancy.
Manage a Dwarven mining colony in the unexplored mountains of Mara. As conflict rages in the Overworld, you will need to craft, explore and fight as you provide the allies of your choice with the finest weapons and gear to assist them in the battle for glory.
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Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to Survival Vacancy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Survival Vacancy.
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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Per Aspera
Single-player alternative to Survival Vacancy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Survival Vacancy.
Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.
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Sapiens
Single-player alternative to Survival Vacancy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Survival Vacancy.
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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First Feudal
Single-player alternative to Survival Vacancy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Survival Vacancy.
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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Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
Single-player alternative to Survival Vacancy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Survival Vacancy.
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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Autonauts
Single-player alternative to Survival Vacancy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Survival Vacancy.
In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.
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Oxygen Not Included
Single-player alternative to Survival Vacancy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Survival Vacancy.
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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Factory Engineer
Single-player alternative to Survival Vacancy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Survival Vacancy.
Factory Engineer is a factory simulation game which is about creating a huge automated factory by building production lines to create products and make money. Start with simple products,make money,unlock technologies then create the most sophisticated products.
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Apocalypse Factory
Single-player alternative to Survival Vacancy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Survival Vacancy.
Automate production, defend your machines, and build the Escape Ark to save what’s left of humanity.