Single-player games like Paragon Pioneers
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Paragon Pioneers, 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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Foundation
Single-player alternative to Paragon Pioneers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Paragon Pioneers.
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
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Founders' Fortune
Single-player alternative to Paragon Pioneers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Paragon Pioneers.
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
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Prison Architect
Single-player alternative to Paragon Pioneers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Paragon Pioneers.
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
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Imagine Earth
Single-player alternative to Paragon Pioneers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Paragon Pioneers.
Build your own global colonies on distant worlds. Manage energy and resource supplies and produce goods for space trade. Form economic and diplomatic alliances or take over competing corporations. Conduct research to protect your colonists from disasters and avoid a climate crisis.
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Pioneers of Pagonia
Single-player alternative to Paragon Pioneers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Paragon Pioneers.
Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.
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Banished
Single-player alternative to Paragon Pioneers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Paragon Pioneers.
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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Stronghold: Warlords
Single-player alternative to Paragon Pioneers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Paragon Pioneers.
Besiege Great Khans, Imperial warlords and Shōgun commanders in Stronghold: Warlords, the latest 'castle sim' from Firefly Studios. Command AI warlords across the battlefield as you build a castle economy and new gunpowder-fuelled siege engines!
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Northgard: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Paragon Pioneers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Paragon Pioneers.
Northgard: Definitive Edition is a critically acclaimed real-time strategy game based on Norse mythology. Lead your clan, uncover the secrets of a mysterious newfound continent and defeat your enemies to conquer the Throne!
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The Settlers Online
Single-player alternative to Paragon Pioneers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Paragon Pioneers.
Build a medieval kingdom in The Settlers Online!
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Sky Settlers
Single-player alternative to Paragon Pioneers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Paragon Pioneers.
Sky Settlers is a minimalistic city building card game in which you build on islands in the sky and encounter different events, disasters and much more. Use different cards, complete quests and unlock new tiles as you progress.
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The Settlers: New Allies
Single-player alternative to Paragon Pioneers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Paragon Pioneers.
The Settlers®: New Allies is a strategy game with an in-depth build-up experience and real-time strategic battles.
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Paragon Pioneers 2
Single-player alternative to Paragon Pioneers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Paragon Pioneers.
Dive into the captivating world of Paragon Pioneers 2, an engaging city-building idle game filled with extensive content promising months of immersive gameplay. Even with limited playtime, you can delve deep into this simulation, experimenting with various strategies to enhance your realm.