Single-player games like Settlement Survival
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Settlement Survival, 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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Banished
Single-player alternative to Settlement Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Settlement Survival.
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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Foundation
Single-player alternative to Settlement Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Settlement Survival.
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
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Kingdoms and Castles
Single-player alternative to Settlement Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Settlement Survival.
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
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Endzone - A World Apart
Single-player alternative to Settlement Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Settlement Survival.
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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Founders' Fortune
Single-player alternative to Settlement Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Settlement Survival.
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
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Patron
Single-player alternative to Settlement Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Settlement Survival.
Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.
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Farthest Frontier
Single-player alternative to Settlement Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Settlement Survival.
Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.
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Against the Storm
Single-player alternative to Settlement Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Settlement Survival.
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
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Tropico 4
Single-player alternative to Settlement Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Settlement Survival.
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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Loot of Baal
Single-player alternative to Settlement Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Settlement Survival.
Recruit, manage, and send your hireling crew to conquer demons and gather treasure—all from the corner of your screen. "Loot of Baal" is an idle desktop game where adventure runs alongside your daily tasks. Can your heroes save the world from chaos?