Single-player games like Against the Storm
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Against the Storm, 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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Timberborn
Single-player alternative to Against the Storm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Against the Storm.
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
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RimWorld
Single-player alternative to Against the Storm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Against the Storm.
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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Frostpunk
Single-player alternative to Against the Storm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Against the Storm.
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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Dwarf Fortress
Single-player alternative to Against the Storm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Against the Storm.
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
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They Are Billions
Single-player alternative to Against the Storm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Against the Storm.
They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?
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Endzone - A World Apart
Single-player alternative to Against the Storm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Against the Storm.
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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Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
Single-player alternative to Against the Storm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Against the Storm.
Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.
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Northgard: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Against the Storm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Against the Storm.
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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Cities: Skylines
Single-player alternative to Against the Storm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Against the Storm.
Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.
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Surviving Mars
Single-player alternative to Against the Storm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Against the Storm.
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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Banished
Single-player alternative to Against the Storm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Against the Storm.
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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IXION
Single-player alternative to Against the Storm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Against the Storm.
IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?
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The Settlers: New Allies
Single-player alternative to Against the Storm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Against the Storm.
The Settlers®: New Allies is a strategy game with an in-depth build-up experience and real-time strategic battles.
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Slay the Spire
Single-player alternative to Against the Storm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Against the Storm.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
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SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition
Single-player alternative to Against the Storm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Against the Storm.
SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition includes the bestselling SimCity 4 and the all-new SimCity 4 Rush Hour Expansion Pack. Create the most massive region of cities ever, with a farming town, bedroom community, high-tech commercial center, and industrial backbone.
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Pharaoh™: A New Era
Single-player alternative to Against the Storm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Against the Storm.
The legendary city-builder returns! Lead the creation of one of the greatest civilizations the world has ever seen in this HD remake with modernized UI. Build monuments, manage your population and explore 4,000 years of history through over a hundred hours of gameplay.