Single-player games like City 20
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to City 20, 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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Plains of Pain
Single-player alternative to City 20 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with City 20.
Survive a brutal open world alone or with friends. Explore a procedural wasteland scorched by chaos. Build and defend your base, trade for what you need, complete deadly quests, and fight to claim faction outposts before someone else does.
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Stranded: Alien Dawn
Single-player alternative to City 20 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with City 20.
Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.
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My Time at Sandrock
Single-player alternative to City 20 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with City 20.
Travel to the desert community of Sandrock and take on the role of a fledgling Builder. Use your trusty toolset to gather resources, construct machines, and turn your run-down workshop into a well-oiled production facility to save the town from the jaws of economic ruin!
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This War of Mine
Single-player alternative to City 20 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with City 20.
In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle.
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Mirthwood
Single-player alternative to City 20 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with City 20.
Embark on an enchanting journey and brave ferocious creatures in an immersive medieval fantasy world. Will you settle a new homestead to live a life of farming and trade, or pick up the sword and take up the adventurers' path?
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Frostpunk
Single-player alternative to City 20 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with City 20.
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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Survive the Fall
Single-player alternative to City 20 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with City 20.
Explore, loot and fight in an open world action game set in a post-apocalyptic future after a devastating meteor strike. Assemble your team and take the fight to the enemy or choose a stealthy approach to gain the upper hand. Expand your base to research new gear and get ready to survive the fall.
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Heat Death: Survival Train
Single-player alternative to City 20 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with City 20.
Heat Death is a sci-fi survival game where you can build, upgrade, and customize your battle train to explore and survive a frozen world! This train is not only your shelter and vehicle, but also your weapon and ally to face hostile drones, deadly storms, and hidden mysteries of an unknown world!
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Kenshi
Single-player alternative to City 20 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with City 20.
A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.
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Loading Human: Chapter 1
Single-player alternative to City 20 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with City 20.
In this VR adventure, your dying father - an esteemed scientist - summons you to his Antarctic base to undergo an intensive interstellar quest: retrieve the Quintessence, an elusive energy source that will help reverse the aging process.
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Fantasy Kommander: Eukarion Wars
Single-player alternative to City 20 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Immerse yourself in the epic battles of Fantasy Kommander, a turn-based tactical game set in a European fantasy world. Lead your armies, master the battle system, and unravel the captivating storyline across four campaigns filled with heroes, quests, and powerful enemies.