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Single-player games like Hard landing: Arrival

Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Hard landing: Arrival, 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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    Death By FrostByte — Steam game cover

    Death By FrostByte

    Single-player alternative to Hard landing: Arrival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hard landing: Arrival.

    Build up your company to mine resources and manufacture parts, research new technologies, build up your industry with limited resources. Can you survive the harsh arctic climates of a new ice age?

    2021StrategyIndieCasual3.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Avian Colony — Steam game cover

    Avian Colony

    Single-player alternative to Hard landing: Arrival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hard landing: Arrival.

    Avian Colony is a survival simulation game that places you in the role of the ruler of a floating colony in a harsh sky world. Your main goal is to ensure the survival and prosperity of your colony by managing resources, planning strategically, and defending against threats.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Urban Entrepreneur — Steam game cover

    Urban Entrepreneur

    Single-player alternative to Hard landing: Arrival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hard landing: Arrival.

    Manage inventory, staff, prices and more while creating a monopoly!

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Space Architect — Steam game cover

    Space Architect

    Single-player alternative to Hard landing: Arrival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hard landing: Arrival.

    Design your dream space station in Space Architect! Master the power of automation or 'hire' an army of crewmates to handle your ever-growing production. Mine asteroids, fabricate goods, and engage in interstellar trade to pay off the menacing Big Evil Corp. Will you thrive in the vastness of space?

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Founders Legacy — Steam game cover

    Founders Legacy

    Single-player alternative to Hard landing: Arrival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hard landing: Arrival.

    A relaxing idle-colony builder that sits at the bottom of your screen while you do other things,Design Your Ultimate colony.

    StrategyIndieSimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    STARIO: Haven Tower — Steam game cover

    STARIO: Haven Tower

    Single-player alternative to Hard landing: Arrival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Hard landing: Arrival.

    A vertical kingdom in the sky! Plan your ascent from the harsh Sand Zone, rising layer by layer as you and your Towertizens stand together against looming disasters. Build trade ports and vertical supply networks. Perform Rituals to shape miracles, and witness the prosperity of this rising nation.

    2025StrategySimulationCasual12.59 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Captain of Industry — Steam game cover

    Captain of Industry

    Single-player alternative to Hard landing: Arrival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hard landing: Arrival.

    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.

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation34.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Craftlings — Steam game cover

    Craftlings

    Single-player alternative to Hard landing: Arrival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hard landing: Arrival.

    Inspired by legendary classics from the ’90s, Craftlings will take you on a journey full of strategic decisions and test your skills in optimizing automated production chains and Craftlings’ paths. Gather, deliver, build, and fight for wealth and glory in the unique, nostalgic world of Craftlings.

    2026StrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Survival Maze — Steam game cover

    Survival Maze

    Single-player alternative to Hard landing: Arrival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hard landing: Arrival.

    A visual novel-clicker. You are the mayor, choosing laws under pressure from a dictator. Illustrated reforms, a social simulator of society, and a story that changes with your clicks. Can you save the city and your conscience?

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation3.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →