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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TimbrianGuard
Single-player alternative to Gateworlds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gateworlds.
Satus (Latin for beginning/sowing) is a voxel-based sand box colony management sim. Players will be tasked with overseeing their colony as they fight for survival while expanding their colony's influence, creating new outposts, and attracting new colonists in the process.
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Stone to Stars
Single-player alternative to Gateworlds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gateworlds.
Stone to Stars is a colony sim and ruler simulator set at the dawn of civilization. Settle an uncharted continent, build a thriving settlement, discover new technologies, trade or wage war with your neighbors—and hold on to power as you guide your dynasty through the ages.
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Insect Empires
Single-player alternative to Gateworlds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Gateworlds.
Choose between 4 factions and wage war against your enemies in this real-time strategy game. Insect Empires is a cartoon style Isometric real-time strategy game about colony type insects. Choose your faction and wage war against any foe!
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Bread & Bravery
Single-player alternative to Gateworlds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Gateworlds.
Return to the era of knights and castles in a uniquely satisfying mix of Settlement Building, RTS and Castle Simulation genres. Manage complex and realistic medieval production chains, build your army and defences, satisfy the King and lead your people to prosperity. Will you succeed as a new lord?
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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