Single-player games like Stranded: Alien Dawn
Below are 22 single-player Steam games similar to Stranded: Alien Dawn, 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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Grandiose
Single-player alternative to Stranded: Alien Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Grandiose is a calming and creative base builder game full of botany, building and strategy. Land on the island that will become your domain in a universe soon to be borrowed from the ingenious and creative abilities of your mind.
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Hammerting
Single-player alternative to Stranded: Alien Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Stranded: Alien Dawn.
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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Survival Vacancy
Single-player alternative to Stranded: Alien Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Stranded: Alien Dawn.
In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.
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Arctic Motel Simulator
Single-player alternative to Stranded: Alien Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Stranded: Alien Dawn.
Have you ever been to the Arctic? Do you want to open a motel in the Arctic? With the company of aurora, blizzards, polar days and nights, primeval forests, and wild animals, can you turn a run-down motel into a landmark in the Arctic?
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The Rule of Land: Pioneers
Single-player alternative to Stranded: Alien Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Stranded: Alien Dawn.
This is a survival game. After the coronation, human beings had to move into the underground. Fifty years later, some people thought the disaster was over and organized a survival competition on the surface. Some brave people took part in the competition . You are one of them.
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Surviving Mars
Single-player alternative to Stranded: Alien Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Stranded: Alien Dawn.
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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Frostpunk
Single-player alternative to Stranded: Alien Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Stranded: Alien Dawn.
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
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Endzone - A World Apart
Single-player alternative to Stranded: Alien Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Stranded: Alien Dawn.
Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.
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RimWorld
Single-player alternative to Stranded: Alien Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Stranded: Alien Dawn.
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
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The Sims™ 4
Single-player alternative to Stranded: Alien Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Stranded: Alien Dawn.
Play with life and discover the possibilities. Unleash your imagination and create a world of Sims that’s wholly unique. Explore and customize every detail from Sims to homes–and much more.
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Banished
Single-player alternative to Stranded: Alien Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Stranded: Alien Dawn.
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
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Oxygen Not Included
Single-player alternative to Stranded: Alien Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Stranded: Alien Dawn.
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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Tropico 6
Single-player alternative to Stranded: Alien Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Stranded: Alien Dawn.
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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Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to Stranded: Alien Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Stranded: Alien Dawn.
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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Tropico 4
Single-player alternative to Stranded: Alien Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Stranded: Alien Dawn.
The world is changing and Tropico is moving with the times - geographical powers rise and fall and the world market is dominated by new players with new demands and offers - and you, as El Presidente, face a whole new set of challenges.
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Subnautica
Single-player alternative to Stranded: Alien Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
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Jagged Alliance 3
Single-player alternative to Stranded: Alien Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Stranded: Alien Dawn.
The country of Grand Chien is thrown into chaos when the elected president goes missing and the paramilitary force known as “the Legion” seizes control. Hire mercs, meet interesting characters, and fight in tactically deep turn-based combat in this true successor to a beloved franchise.
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Tropico 5
Single-player alternative to Stranded: Alien Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Stranded: Alien Dawn.
Return to the remote island nation of Tropico and expand your Dynasty’s reign from the early colonial period to beyond the 21st Century, facing new challenges including advanced trading mechanics, technology and scientific research, as well as cooperative and competitive MULTIPLAYER.
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Victor Vran ARPG
Single-player alternative to Stranded: Alien Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Victor Vran is the isometric action-RPG where your skill is just as essential as your character build and gear. Experience intense combat action: dodge, jump and unleash powerful skills to finish off your enemies!
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Surviving Mars: Relaunched
Single-player alternative to Stranded: Alien Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Stranded: Alien Dawn.
The award-winning sci-fi city builder is back - remastered, expanded and even more stunning. Colonize Mars and survive the process, from exploration and infrastructure to welcoming colonists and achieving long-term stability. Are you ready? Mars is waiting.
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Omerta - City of Gangsters
Single-player alternative to Stranded: Alien Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Stranded: Alien Dawn.
Omerta - City of Gangsters is a simulation game with tactical turn-based combat. Taking the role of a fresh-from-the-boat immigrant, with dreams of the big life, the player will work his way up the criminal hierarchy of 1920’s Atlantic City.
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Tropico 3
Single-player alternative to Stranded: Alien Dawn — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Stranded: Alien Dawn.
Become the dictator of a remote island during the Cold War. Charm, persuade, intimidate, oppress, or cheat your people to stay in power! Are you a kind and generous leader? A corrupt and ruthless tyrant ruling with an iron fist?