Single-player games like Plan B: Terraform
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Plan B: Terraform, 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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Captain of Industry
Single-player alternative to Plan B: Terraform — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Plan B: Terraform.
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
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Factory Town
Single-player alternative to Plan B: Terraform — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Plan B: Terraform.
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
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shapez 2 - Factory
Single-player alternative to Plan B: Terraform — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Plan B: Terraform.
Dive into a factory-building game with the focus on just that – building huge space factories! Design sprawling multi-level factories and satisfying production lines without limits. Tackle progressively challenging automation goals at your own pace, without the threat of enemies.
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Logistik
Single-player alternative to Plan B: Terraform — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Plan B: Terraform.
Build, schedule, and optimize your rail network, with every track reshaping the world. Balance fuel costs, adapt to the terrain, and fulfill demands. Elevate Trains to the ultimate means of transport!
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Red Dust Colony
Single-player alternative to Plan B: Terraform — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Plan B: Terraform.
The spirit of the space race lives on in this Mars based colony sim. Mine, craft and research in order to build up your initial lander into a self sustaining colony. Keep oxygen levels high and CO₂ levels low. Discover and grow a variety of plants to balance out colonist nutrition.
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Mini Settlers
Single-player alternative to Plan B: Terraform — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Plan B: Terraform.
Mini Settlers is a minimalistic city builder! Settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.
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RAILGRADE
Single-player alternative to Plan B: Terraform — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Plan B: Terraform.
RAILGRADE is the train RTS game! Construct dense vertical railroads, build cities, construct vast factory chains with train automation! Restore an off world colony's economy all in the intense story driven campaign or relaxing sandbox mode!
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InfraSpace
Single-player alternative to Plan B: Terraform — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Plan B: Terraform.
Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.
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The Planet Crafter
Single-player alternative to Plan B: Terraform — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
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Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to Plan B: Terraform — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Plan B: Terraform.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
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Factorio
Single-player alternative to Plan B: Terraform — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Plan B: Terraform.
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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Transport Fever 2
Single-player alternative to Plan B: Terraform — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Plan B: Terraform.
The classic transport simulation genre has a new gold standard with Transport Fever 2. Discover a whole new world by navigating transport routes through land, water and air. May progress and prosperity find their way!
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Dyson Sphere Program
Single-player alternative to Plan B: Terraform — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Plan B: Terraform.
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
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Cities: Skylines
Single-player alternative to Plan B: Terraform — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Plan B: Terraform.
Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.
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Surviving Mars
Single-player alternative to Plan B: Terraform — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Plan B: Terraform.
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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Per Aspera
Single-player alternative to Plan B: Terraform — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Plan B: Terraform.
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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Dig or Die
Single-player alternative to Plan B: Terraform — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Plan B: Terraform.
Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.