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Single-player games like Alien Land

Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Alien Land, 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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    Alpha Lyrae Discovery — Steam game cover

    Alpha Lyrae Discovery

    Single-player alternative to Alien Land — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Alien Land.

    Alpha Lyrae (Vega) is the brightest star in the northern constellation of Lyra. You were sent to Alpha Lyrae system, and your first object is to discover and to transmit data back. The last and only message from the previous team: "It is a rich and soft planet. They are everywhere."

    2019StrategyIndieSimulation10.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Seven Wonders — Steam game cover

    Seven Wonders

    Single-player alternative to Alien Land — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Alien Land.

    Seven Wonders is an ancient city-building game. It brings you back to ancient times, where you have to build the seven wonders of the ancient world. You have to manage resources and labor to build the wonders.

    2023StrategyIndieSimulation3.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Deisim — Steam game cover

    Deisim

    Single-player alternative to Alien Land — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Alien Land.

    Live the experience of being a powerful god and create the world to see the growth of mankind.

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Venture Towns — Steam game cover

    Venture Towns

    Single-player alternative to Alien Land — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Alien Land.

    Make your own metropolitan utopia! Stores, mansions, towers--anything goes!

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation8.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Your Island -KIMI NO SIMA- — Steam game cover

    Your Island -KIMI NO SIMA-

    Single-player alternative to Alien Land — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Alien Land.

    Your people landed on a virgin forest island. Develop the island, build a house, make fields and barns, develop agriculture, fishery and industry, Let's develop into a wonderful island. It is a box-garden / sandbox-type simulation game that guides people and develops and develops islands. Andy maintenance (c)

    2019IndieSimulation9.09 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Tropical Resort Story — Steam game cover

    Tropical Resort Story

    Single-player alternative to Alien Land — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Alien Land.

    It's vacation time! Try your hand at managing a lush tropical resort!

    2023StrategyIndieSimulation8.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Loafing Town — Steam game cover

    Loafing Town

    Single-player alternative to Alien Land — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Alien Land.

    A relaxing and humorous idle god simulator that stays at the bottom of your screen or on a second monitor while you do other things. With physics-based dragging interactions, it feels just like playing with desk toys.

    2025IndieSimulationCasual6.29 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Universim — Steam game cover

    The Universim

    Single-player alternative to Alien Land — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Alien Land.

    Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →