Single-player games like Frostpunk 2
Below are 21 single-player Steam games similar to Frostpunk 2, 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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Frostpunk
Single-player alternative to Frostpunk 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Frostpunk 2.
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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MEMORIAPOLIS
Single-player alternative to Frostpunk 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Frostpunk 2.
Memoriapolis is a historical city builder where your city grows organically across 5 ages, from Antiquity to the Industrial Revolution. Manage resources, interact with factions, and shape your dynasty toward building a final Wonder with easy, normal, or hard difficulty levels.
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Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
Single-player alternative to Frostpunk 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Frostpunk 2.
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
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Dream Engines: Nomad Cities
Single-player alternative to Frostpunk 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Frostpunk 2.
A survival city-building game with flying cities. Build, automate, and defend a flying city that travels between procedurally generated maps to survive in a wacky, nightmare-infested, post-apocalyptic world full of strange science and dreams.
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They Are Billions
Single-player alternative to Frostpunk 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Frostpunk 2.
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 Frostpunk 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Frostpunk 2.
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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Floodland
Single-player alternative to Frostpunk 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Frostpunk 2.
A society survival game set in a world destroyed by climate change. Explore, scavenge and build a city to unite the clans. Conflicting cultures and limited resources mean you need to make tough choices; have you got what it takes to lead your people into a new era of humanity?
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Against the Storm
Single-player alternative to Frostpunk 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Frostpunk 2.
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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IXION
Single-player alternative to Frostpunk 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Frostpunk 2.
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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Banished
Single-player alternative to Frostpunk 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Frostpunk 2.
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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Surviving the Aftermath
Single-player alternative to Frostpunk 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Frostpunk 2.
Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.
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Timberborn
Single-player alternative to Frostpunk 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Frostpunk 2.
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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This War of Mine
Single-player alternative to Frostpunk 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Frostpunk 2.
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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Manor Lords
Single-player alternative to Frostpunk 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Frostpunk 2.
Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.
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New Cycle
Single-player alternative to Frostpunk 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Frostpunk 2.
New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.
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The Alters
Single-player alternative to Frostpunk 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Explore an emotional sci-fi game with a unique blend of survival, adventure, and base-building elements. Help Jan Dolski, the sole survivor of an ill-fated space expedition, create alternative versions of himself to escape a hostile planet and tackle personal turmoils with this unconventional crew.
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Anomaly: Warzone Earth
Single-player alternative to Frostpunk 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Frostpunk 2.
Lead an armored squad through the perils of this reversed tower defense action-strategy game!
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Anomaly 2
Single-player alternative to Frostpunk 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Frostpunk 2.
Anomaly 2 is a sequel to the critically acclaimed Anomaly Warzone Earth. Maintaining the core elements of the original, Anomaly 2 adds plenty of new features: unit morphing, over million tactical combinations, post-apo world and tower defense vs tower offense multiplayer mode.
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Anomaly Defenders
Single-player alternative to Frostpunk 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Frostpunk 2.
Anomaly Defenders is the closing installment of the Anomaly series. The original incarnation of the Tower Offense sub-genre had players controlling humans fighting alien invaders. Now, the tables have turned. The human counterattack is underway and the alien homeworld is under threat.
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Anomaly Korea
Single-player alternative to Frostpunk 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Frostpunk 2.
Exclusively brought to Steam for PC, Mac and Linux in Anomaly Bundle, Anomaly Korea is an expansion campaign to Anomaly Warzone Earth. The alien robots are back and this time they’ve got Korea in their sights. It’s your job to lead a squad into fierce fire-fights and fend off the alien invasion.
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Anomaly Warzone Earth Mobile Campaign
Single-player alternative to Frostpunk 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Frostpunk 2.
Anomaly Warzone Earth Mobile Campaign continues Steam's Anomaly Warzone Earth in an extra 15-level campaign. Originally released on mobile devices, the campaign is brought to Steam for PC, Mac and Linux exclusively in Anomaly Bundle. AWE Mobile Campaign turns tower defense on its head.