Single-player games like Art of the Rail
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Art of the Rail, 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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Settletopia
Single-player alternative to Art of the Rail — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Art of the Rail.
Grow a small colony into a vast, world-spanning civilization. Play solo or with friends as you gather resources, build cities, manage colonist needs, explore uncharted lands, establish logistics, raise armies, forge alliances, and wage wars—all in a living world.
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Unnatural Worlds
Single-player alternative to Art of the Rail — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Art of the Rail.
Innovative yet familiar real-time strategy game in development. Grand-scale RTS game played on maps/planets of any 3D shape. It emphasizes strategy, base building, logistics, and reduces micro-management of individual units.
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Colony Survival
Single-player alternative to Art of the Rail — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Art of the Rail.
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
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Northgard: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Art of the Rail — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Art of the Rail.
Northgard: Definitive Edition is a critically acclaimed real-time strategy game based on Norse mythology. Lead your clan, uncover the secrets of a mysterious newfound continent and defeat your enemies to conquer the Throne!
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Kingdoms Reborn
Single-player alternative to Art of the Rail — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Art of the Rail.
A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.
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CryoFall
Single-player alternative to Art of the Rail — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Art of the Rail.
CryoFall is a sci-fi colony simulation survival game set on a forgotten planet in a distant future. Master technology, agriculture, trading, industry, cybernetics, exploration, and more!
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Rail Route
Single-player alternative to Art of the Rail — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Art of the Rail.
In Rail Route, you will design, construct, upgrade, and automate your railway network in one of the many maps based on real-life cities worldwide. Dispatch the trains to make the traffic flow and the network grow!
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Tropico 6
Single-player alternative to Art of the Rail — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Art of the Rail.
El Presidente is back! Prove yourself once again as a feared dictator or peace-loving statesman on the island state of Tropico and shape the fate of your very own banana republic through four distinctive eras.
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ICARUS
Single-player alternative to Art of the Rail — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Art of the Rail.
ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.
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Stationeers
Single-player alternative to Art of the Rail — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Art of the Rail.
Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!
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Out of Ammo
Single-player alternative to Art of the Rail — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Art of the Rail.
Out of Ammo is an intense VR Tower Defense / FPS hybrid strategy game that will have you constructing defenses, calling in artillery, issuing orders, and taking direct control of your soldiers in order to survive a relentless enemy onslaught.
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Out of Ammo: Death Drive
Single-player alternative to Art of the Rail — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Art of the Rail.
Death Drive is the apocalyptic sequel to Out of Ammo, a hybrid VR Tower Defense / FPS strategy game. Embark on a wild road trip developed exclusively for VR. Build defenses, scavenge scrap and and kill undead zombie hordes using an arsenal of firearms, melee weapons and mounted defenses.