Single-player games like Red Dust Colony
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Red Dust Colony, 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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Plan B: Terraform
Single-player alternative to Red Dust Colony — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Red Dust Colony.
Terraform a lifeless rock into a lush and habitable world. Build trucks, trains, and sprawling factories on an enormous hexagonal planet. Grow its population to millions. Enjoy a dynamic simulation of atmosphere, temperature, water, and forests.
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Blossom: The Seed of Life
Single-player alternative to Red Dust Colony — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Terraform a dead planet back to life in this open world survival crafting game. Explore ruins, gather resources, print machines, drive modular vehicles, grow forests, biomes, and ecosystems. Create life and make it thrive with your own hands.
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Steel Artery: Train City Builder
Single-player alternative to Red Dust Colony — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Red Dust Colony.
Build a living city on rails in this steampunk fantasy train-city builder. Manage multiracial colonies with thousands of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, manage the economy, and create logistics as you explore distant regions to ensure the prosperity of your Empire.
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Whiskerwood
Single-player alternative to Red Dust Colony — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Red Dust Colony.
Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.
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Captain of Industry
Single-player alternative to Red Dust Colony — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Red Dust Colony.
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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Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
Single-player alternative to Red Dust Colony — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Red Dust Colony.
Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game. With unique vertical and horizontal base-building gameplay, settle on 10 hostile alien planets and build your own thriving colony. Get enough materials to build a physics-based Spaceship and try to escape from disasters.
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Factorio
Single-player alternative to Red Dust Colony — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Red Dust Colony.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
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Nova Roma
Single-player alternative to Red Dust Colony — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Red Dust Colony.
The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.