Single-player games like Reshaping Mars
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Reshaping Mars, 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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Surviving Mars
Single-player alternative to Reshaping Mars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Reshaping Mars.
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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Plan B: Terraform
Single-player alternative to Reshaping Mars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Reshaping Mars.
Terraform a lifeless rock into a lush and habitable world. Build trucks, trains, and sprawling factories on an enormous hexagonal planet. Grow its population to millions. Enjoy a dynamic simulation of atmosphere, temperature, water, and forests.
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Per Aspera
Single-player alternative to Reshaping Mars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Reshaping Mars.
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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Terraformers
Single-player alternative to Reshaping Mars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Reshaping Mars.
Terraform Mars in this turn-based colony builder and resource management game with roguelike elements. Explore the planet, develop spectacular cities, spread life and turn the Red Planet into a green one!
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Farlanders
Single-player alternative to Reshaping Mars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Reshaping Mars.
Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.
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Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
Single-player alternative to Reshaping Mars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Reshaping Mars.
Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game. With unique vertical and horizontal base-building gameplay, settle on 10 hostile alien planets and build your own thriving colony. Get enough materials to build a physics-based Spaceship and try to escape from disasters.
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Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
Single-player alternative to Reshaping Mars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Reshaping Mars.
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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Aven Colony
Single-player alternative to Reshaping Mars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Reshaping Mars.
Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.
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SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition
Single-player alternative to Reshaping Mars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Reshaping Mars.
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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RimWorld
Single-player alternative to Reshaping Mars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Reshaping Mars.
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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Factorio
Single-player alternative to Reshaping Mars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Reshaping Mars.
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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Typing Break
Single-player alternative to Reshaping Mars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Reshaping Mars.
If you can type, you can fire a gun.