Single-player games like ExoColony: Planet Survival
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to ExoColony: Planet Survival, 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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Surviving Mars
Single-player alternative to ExoColony: Planet Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with ExoColony: Planet Survival.
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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Space Haven
Single-player alternative to ExoColony: Planet Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with ExoColony: Planet Survival.
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
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Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
Single-player alternative to ExoColony: Planet Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with ExoColony: Planet Survival.
Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game. With unique vertical and horizontal base-building gameplay, settle on 10 hostile alien planets and build your own thriving colony. Get enough materials to build a physics-based Spaceship and try to escape from disasters.
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The Final Earth 2
Single-player alternative to ExoColony: Planet Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with ExoColony: Planet Survival.
The Final Earth 2 is a vertical sci-fi city builder. Earth is unlivable, so you decide to create a space colony. Gather resources, then build and research your way to a better future! Grow your city from an exploration ship to a huge metropolis, full of advanced technology. What will you build?
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The Last Starship
Single-player alternative to ExoColony: Planet Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with ExoColony: Planet Survival.
The Last Starship is a 2D space construction game where you design and upgrade your starship. Choose your path: pirate hunter, miner, engineer, spacebus driver, and more, whilst exploring vibrant star systems. Enjoy a growing sandbox world, with regular free updates. Your cosmic adventure awaits!
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Planetbase
Single-player alternative to ExoColony: Planet Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with ExoColony: Planet Survival.
Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.
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RimWorld
Single-player alternative to ExoColony: Planet Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with ExoColony: Planet Survival.
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
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Captain of Industry
Single-player alternative to ExoColony: Planet Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with ExoColony: Planet Survival.
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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Oxygen Not Included
Single-player alternative to ExoColony: Planet Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with ExoColony: Planet Survival.
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
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Banished
Single-player alternative to ExoColony: Planet Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with ExoColony: Planet Survival.
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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Factorio
Single-player alternative to ExoColony: Planet Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with ExoColony: Planet Survival.
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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Dwarf Fortress
Single-player alternative to ExoColony: Planet Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with ExoColony: Planet Survival.
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
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Territory: Animals Genetic Strategy
Single-player alternative to ExoColony: Planet Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with ExoColony: Planet Survival.
Strategy game about genes and animal species. Evolve, reproduce, expand to new territories, survive, and fight to achieve various goals like biodiversity or dominance in the ecosystem.