Single-player games like New Cycle
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to New Cycle, 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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The Crust
Single-player alternative to New Cycle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with New Cycle.
Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.
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Endzone - A World Apart
Single-player alternative to New Cycle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with New Cycle.
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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Industries of Titan
Single-player alternative to New Cycle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with New Cycle.
Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with other rival corporations on Titan for resources, territory, and power. Seek victory via technology, influence, warfare, or the wealth extracted from your citizens. Stake your claim to the Industries of Titan in this innovative sim/strategy game!
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Endzone 2
Single-player alternative to New Cycle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with New Cycle.
Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.
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Laysara: Summit Kingdom
Single-player alternative to New Cycle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with New Cycle.
Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?
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Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
Single-player alternative to New Cycle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with New Cycle.
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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Clanfolk
Single-player alternative to New Cycle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with New Cycle.
Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.
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Against the Storm
Single-player alternative to New Cycle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with New Cycle.
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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Mad Max
Single-player alternative to New Cycle — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Play as Mad Max, a reluctant hero and survivor who wants nothing more than to leave the madness behind and find solace.
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RimWorld
Single-player alternative to New Cycle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with New Cycle.
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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Frostpunk
Single-player alternative to New Cycle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with New Cycle.
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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Factorio
Single-player alternative to New Cycle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with New Cycle.
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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Annor
Single-player alternative to New Cycle — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Annor is a puzzle adventure where the player incarnate an explorer progressing through a city mined by hidden enemies to reach the stone of Annor. Illuminate your environment with your scepter to detect the keys of the puzzle and the threat in order to fight it.