Single-player games like Ark Nova
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Ark Nova, 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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Wingspan
Single-player alternative to Ark Nova — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Ark Nova.
Wingspan is a relaxing, award-winning strategy card game about birds for 1 to 5 players. Each bird you play extends a chain of powerful combinations in one of your three habitats. Your goal is to discover and attract the best birds to your network of wildlife preserves.
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Through the Ages
Single-player alternative to Ark Nova — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Ark Nova.
Legendary board game classic from award winning designer Vlaada Chvátil
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Terraforming Mars
Single-player alternative to Ark Nova — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Ark Nova.
The taming of the Red Planet has begun! Corporations are competing to transform Mars into a habitable planet by spending vast resources and using innovative technology to raise temperature, create a breathable atmosphere, and make oceans of water.
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Concordia: Digital Edition
Single-player alternative to Ark Nova — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Ark Nova.
Concordia is a strategic, Euro-style board game. 🏺 Players take the roles of powerful Roman merchants and follow the Roman expansion with their trade routes, franchises, and production houses. 🏛️
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Root
Single-player alternative to Ark Nova — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Ark Nova.
Might makes right in the wild wood! The award-winning board game of asymmetrical woodland warfare comes to cross-platform digital play! Combine subtle strategy and bold daring to guide your forest faction to victory!
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Gaia Project
Single-player alternative to Ark Nova — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Ark Nova.
Gaia Project is the digital adaptation of the boardgame Gaia Project created by Helge Ostertag and Jens Drögemüller and published by "Feuerland Verlag". It is a 1-4 player strategy game. It plays in the same universe as Terra Mystica and continues the adventure in the far future.
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Everdell
Single-player alternative to Ark Nova — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Ark Nova.
Harvest resources to build a village of woodland critters in this adaptation of the award-winning tabletop board game!
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Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked
Single-player alternative to Ark Nova — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Ark Nova.
A cooperative tactical RPG set in the D&D universe. Embark on a fantasy tabletop adventure. Your quest, on your schedule.
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Clank!
Single-player alternative to Ark Nova — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Ark Nova.
Burgle your way to adventure in the award-winning board game!
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Dune: Imperium
Single-player alternative to Ark Nova — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Ark Nova.
The award-winning board game of strategy and intrigue in the iconic universe of Dune. The Spice must flow.
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A Game of Thrones: The Board Game - Digital Edition
Single-player alternative to Ark Nova — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Ark Nova.
A Game of Thrones: The Board Game – Digital Edition is the digital adaptation of the top-selling strategy board game from Fantasy Flight Games.
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Munchkin Digital
Single-player alternative to Ark Nova — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Ark Nova.
Kill the monsters & grab the loot in the classic card game!
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Sagrada
Single-player alternative to Ark Nova — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Ark Nova.
A game of dice drafting and window crafting.
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Raiders of the North Sea
Single-player alternative to Ark Nova — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Ark Nova.
It's Raiding Season! Plunder your way to Viking adventure in the digital adaptation of the award-winning worker-placement board game!