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Single-player games like Mythos: Build & Survive

Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Mythos: Build & Survive, 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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    Dynasty of the Sands — Steam game cover

    Dynasty of the Sands

    Single-player alternative to Mythos: Build & Survive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mythos: Build & Survive.

    Be the architect of your own Egyptian empire in this meditative survival city builder, where every decision, no matter how small, has lasting consequences. Survive alongside your people, expand your influence across the Nile and create a grand Dynasty to rival the gods themselves. Paradise awaits.

    ActionStrategyIndieSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    VIKING - Sagas of the Norse Lands — Steam game cover

    VIKING - Sagas of the Norse Lands

    Single-player alternative to Mythos: Build & Survive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Mythos: Build & Survive.

    VIKING - Sagas of the Norse Lands is a city-builder where you forge your legend. Become a Jarl, transform a camp into a thriving city, manage your people's expansion, and build your legacy. Explore, fight, and erect monuments to etch your saga in history!

    StrategyEarly AccessSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Routes and Forges — Steam game cover

    Routes and Forges

    Single-player alternative to Mythos: Build & Survive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mythos: Build & Survive.

    A unique blend of RTS, Tycoon, and Tower Defense, where you are the architect, mayor, and commander of a growing village (and conurbation of villages). Your goals are simple: build a prosperous community, optimize production chains, and survive the horrors that emerge from the dark.

    2026StrategySimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    TimbrianGuard — Steam game cover

    TimbrianGuard

    Single-player alternative to Mythos: Build & Survive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mythos: Build & Survive.

    Satus (Latin for beginning/sowing) is a voxel-based sand box colony management sim. Players will be tasked with overseeing their colony as they fight for survival while expanding their colony's influence, creating new outposts, and attracting new colonists in the process.

    StrategyIndieSimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Mandate Order — Steam game cover

    Mandate Order

    Single-player alternative to Mythos: Build & Survive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mythos: Build & Survive.

    Mandate Order is a Warring States war city-builder set in ancient China. Build a stronghold, manage industries and logistics, recruit scholars from the Hundred Schools of Thought, raise armies, and command real-time tactical battles with thousands of soldiers.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation16.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Last King — Steam game cover

    The Last King

    Single-player alternative to Mythos: Build & Survive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Mythos: Build & Survive.

    Command a fearless Greek army against Persian invasion. Recruit, train, and promote your army. Build marching camp, resource gathering stations, trade outposts and REBUILD your razed city. Master ancient war tactics and strategies to defeat your enemies

    2025ActionStrategyRPG14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    After Long Night — Steam game cover

    After Long Night

    Single-player alternative to Mythos: Build & Survive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mythos: Build & Survive.

    After Long Night is a sandbox survival RTS. Build and fortify your base, scavenge every corner for vital resources, craft deadly weapons, and raise a militia to fight off relentless zombie hordes that strike every night. In this world, scavenging isn't just survival—it's strategy, power and war.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation7.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Here Comes The Swarm — Steam game cover

    Here Comes The Swarm

    Single-player alternative to Mythos: Build & Survive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mythos: Build & Survive.

    Here Comes the Swarm is a survival RTS with a pause button! Create your strategy, build, manage, and defend your settlements at your own pace. Take the fight to the hive mind and lead expeditions to deliver a deadly blow and eradicate your foes. Will you reclaim Ulora from the relentless Swarm?

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation15.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    WW2 Rebuilder — Steam game cover

    WW2 Rebuilder

    Single-player alternative to Mythos: Build & Survive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mythos: Build & Survive.

    Build the new future of Europe! Flip, renovate, repair and rebuild places destroyed during World War 2. Get to know the history and stories of civilians. Play an immersive building simulator with grappling storytelling.

    2023ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Photography Simulator — Steam game cover

    Photography Simulator

    Single-player alternative to Mythos: Build & Survive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mythos: Build & Survive.

    Learn and explore the world of a professional photography. Join adventure of the wild life. Hunt and shoot best pictures. Sell your photos to magazines, buy and upgrade your gear, and whenever you get tired of waiting for a perfect shot there are ways to brighten your day waiting for you.

    ActionSportsStrategySingle-playerSimilar games →
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    WW2 Rebuilder: Germany Prologue — Steam game cover

    WW2 Rebuilder: Germany Prologue

    Single-player alternative to Mythos: Build & Survive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Mythos: Build & Survive.

    Visit a part of war-torn Hamburg in the FREE Germany Prologue! Flip, renovate, repair and rebuild places destroyed during World War 2. Get to know the history and stories of civilians. Play an immersive building simulator with grappling storytelling.

    2022AdventureSimulationFreeSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Medieval Builders: Strongholds & Castles — Steam game cover

    Medieval Builders: Strongholds & Castles

    Single-player alternative to Mythos: Build & Survive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Mythos: Build & Survive.

    Craft, hunt, and survive in fantasy medieval world. Build your village, manage and defend castles and whole kingdoms. Become a local lord and a builder. Strongholds & Castles are waiting for you to manage them - alone or with your friends!

    ActionAdventureSimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Heavy Duty Construction — Steam game cover

    Heavy Duty Construction

    Single-player alternative to Mythos: Build & Survive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mythos: Build & Survive.

    Become a construction worker - demolish, design and build using heavy machinery. Expand your abilities and unlock a variety of vehicles to build your construction company empire. Renovate and manage cities in this heavy machines simulation game.

    IndieAdventureSimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Photography Simulator Wildlife Prologue — Steam game cover

    Photography Simulator Wildlife Prologue

    Single-player alternative to Mythos: Build & Survive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mythos: Build & Survive.

    Begin your journey with professional photography. Learn new skills or polish old ones while trying to hunt and shoot the best pictures. Prepare for greater adventure with Wildlife Prologue.

    ActionSportsIndieFreeSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    30 Days on Ship — Steam game cover

    30 Days on Ship

    Single-player alternative to Mythos: Build & Survive — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mythos: Build & Survive.

    Take on the role of a castaway on a wrecked container ship. Survive for 30 days, battle storms, hunt animals, build shelter, and maintain your mental health, attempting to endure isolation and pirates in the middle of the Pacific. Can you stay alive?

    ActionIndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →