Single-player games like Gateworlds
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Gateworlds, 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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Settletopia
Single-player alternative to Gateworlds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Gateworlds.
Grow a small colony into a vast, world-spanning civilization. Play solo or with friends as you gather resources, build cities, manage colonist needs, explore uncharted lands, establish logistics, raise armies, forge alliances, and wage wars—all in a living world.
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Icetwine
Single-player alternative to Gateworlds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Gateworlds.
Icetwine is an ice-age city builder where you combine raw materials to craft tools, weapons, machines, and structures. Build cozy huts, thriving farms, and tame dodos and mammoths. Defend your village from enemies and strike back to help your people survive and thrive.
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Dwarf Things
Single-player alternative to Gateworlds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Gateworlds.
Manage and expand a colony of dwarves. Decide where to dig and how to build a settlement. Choose what items to craft and what skills to learn and master. Keep your dwarves alive and survive goblin attacks, famine, harsh winters and wild beasts.
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Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
Single-player alternative to Gateworlds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gateworlds.
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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Ascent of Ashes
Single-player alternative to Gateworlds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gateworlds.
A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs
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After Long Night
Single-player alternative to Gateworlds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gateworlds.
After Long Night is a sandbox survival RTS. Build and fortify your base, scavenge every corner for vital resources, craft deadly weapons, and raise a militia to fight off relentless zombie hordes that strike every night. In this world, scavenging isn't just survival—it's strategy, power and war.
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Ground of Aces
Single-player alternative to Gateworlds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Gateworlds.
Take command of a remote military air base during World War II. Build your own airfield, manage iconic aircraft and oversee your crew’s well-being. Prepare them against air raids and send your pilots on dangerous missions. Survive and help your nation win the war!
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The Last Haven
Single-player alternative to Gateworlds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gateworlds.
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.