Single-player games like Kenshi
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Kenshi, 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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RimWorld
Single-player alternative to Kenshi — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kenshi.
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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Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
Single-player alternative to Kenshi — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kenshi.
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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Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville
Single-player alternative to Kenshi — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kenshi.
Rebuild a ruined city in this post-apocalyptic mix of strategy and simulation. Manage survivors, scavenge for food and supplies, deal with rival gangs, illness, interpersonal strife and zombie attacks.
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Dwarf Fortress
Single-player alternative to Kenshi — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kenshi.
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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The Last Haven
Single-player alternative to Kenshi — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kenshi.
The world after a nuclear war. Manage the settlement, learn technology, make decisions, produce weapons, ammunition, organize defense, raid for supplies on other areas, do not let residents die, survive the nuclear winter.
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Sheltered
Single-player alternative to Kenshi — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kenshi.
Sheltered is a deep and emotional survival management game. You take on the role of protecting four family members who, after a global apocalypse, have found their way to a deserted shelter.
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Dream Engines: Nomad Cities
Single-player alternative to Kenshi — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kenshi.
A survival city-building game with flying cities. Build, automate, and defend a flying city that travels between procedurally generated maps to survive in a wacky, nightmare-infested, post-apocalyptic world full of strange science and dreams.
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Endzone - A World Apart
Single-player alternative to Kenshi — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kenshi.
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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Mount & Blade
Single-player alternative to Kenshi — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Kenshi.
Calradia is a land at war, offering great riches and even greater dangers to adventurers and mercenaries that flock to shed their blood on its soil. With courage and a strong sword, an unknown stranger can make a name as a warrior. Free-form sand-box gameplay.
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Elin
Single-player alternative to Kenshi — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kenshi.
Successor to the roguelike RPG "Elona". Adventure, survival, crafting, home-building, myths passed down, and stories of humans and Elea spun. What scars will you leave on the land of Ylva?
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Starvector
Single-player alternative to Kenshi — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Kenshi.
Eat a snack while you watch an entire planet burn in your image.
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The Matchless Kungfu
Single-player alternative to Kenshi — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kenshi.
The Matchless Kungfu is an open world sandbox RPG game based on a WuXia background. You can play any martial arts role you imagine in this wild world. Travel through the great wilderness, or be the leader of the group. The most important thing is, build your own story and live the experience!
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The Sims™ Legacy Collection
Single-player alternative to Kenshi — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Kenshi.
The original game you know and love. For Windows 10/11. Create a neighborhood of Sims and guide their lives through careers and romance. Or create chaos with open-ended gameplay that lets you shape their destinies.
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The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition
Single-player alternative to Kenshi — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Kenshi.
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition includes Morrowind plus all of the content from the Bloodmoon and Tribunal expansions. The original Mod Construction Set is not included in this package. An epic, open-ended single-player RPG, Morrowind allows you to create and play any kind of character imaginable.