Single-player games like Meer's: Escape
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Meer's: Escape, 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: Relaunched
Single-player alternative to Meer's: Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Meer's: Escape.
The award-winning sci-fi city builder is back - remastered, expanded and even more stunning. Colonize Mars and survive the process, from exploration and infrastructure to welcoming colonists and achieving long-term stability. Are you ready? Mars is waiting.
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Timberborn
Single-player alternative to Meer's: Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Meer's: Escape.
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
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Havendock
Single-player alternative to Meer's: Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Meer's: Escape.
Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.
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Captain of Industry
Single-player alternative to Meer's: Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Meer's: Escape.
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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Land of the Vikings
Single-player alternative to Meer's: Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Meer's: Escape.
Land of the Vikings is a survival colony sim game. Build and lead your village, and expand it into a thriving city. A wise Jarl must manage resources, survive harsh conditions, and guide their fellow Vikings to work together through social conflict. Skál!
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Wildmender
Single-player alternative to Meer's: Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Meer's: Escape.
A desert gardening survival game. Start from a tiny spring and cultivate a blooming garden. Explore a vast world amid the sands and uncover its mysteries. Can you defend against the relentless forces of nature and mysterious wraith corruption, to bring life to a dying world?
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Prison Architect
Single-player alternative to Meer's: Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Meer's: Escape.
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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Frostpunk
Single-player alternative to Meer's: Escape — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Meer's: Escape.
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?