Single-player games like Banished
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Banished, 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 Banished — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Banished.
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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Prison Architect
Single-player alternative to Banished — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Banished.
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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Kingdoms and Castles
Single-player alternative to Banished — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Banished.
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
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Life is Feudal: Forest Village
Single-player alternative to Banished — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Banished.
LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.
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RimWorld
Single-player alternative to Banished — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Banished.
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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Endzone - A World Apart
Single-player alternative to Banished — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Banished.
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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Cities: Skylines
Single-player alternative to Banished — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Banished.
Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.
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Frostpunk
Single-player alternative to Banished — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Banished.
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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Ostriv
Single-player alternative to Banished — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Banished.
Ostriv is a city-building game that puts you in a role of a governor of an 18th century Ukrainian town to challenge your creative skills and management abilities.
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Surviving Mars
Single-player alternative to Banished — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Banished.
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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Dawn of Man
Single-player alternative to Banished — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Banished.
Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.