Single-player games like Trappist
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Trappist, 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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Captain of Industry
Single-player alternative to Trappist — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Trappist.
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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Deep Space Outpost
Single-player alternative to Trappist — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Trappist.
Deep Space Outpost is a space station building & survival game, involving resource and base management. Build your space station tile by tile, mine asteroids, refine materials and keep your station operational.
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Wild West Miner Simulator
Single-player alternative to Trappist — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Trappist.
You've become the major of a town that... doesn't exist. Nobody lives here, the governor's stupid joke. It's time to get to work and turn this NOWHERE into a bustling metropolis. Mine coal, ore, and gold. Build houses, find oil, bring in new residents, create a paradise in the middle of nowhere.
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Pioneers of Pagonia
Single-player alternative to Trappist — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Trappist.
Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.
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Cattails: Wildwood Story
Single-player alternative to Trappist — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Trappist.
Become a cat! In this cozy life sim RPG, you'll lead your colony into the mysterious Wildwood. Hunt prey, harvest herbs, collect magical treasures, & defend your new home from intruders. Build a thriving town to recruit new cats. Get to know the residents, fall in love, & raise a litter of kittens!
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Corsair Cove
Single-player alternative to Trappist — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Trappist.
Build a sprawling pirate haven, raise a fleet to explore the high seas, and take on the Crown to keep the Age of Piracy alive! From ale to flintlock pistols, and from scallywags to swashbucklers, you’ll need to manage complex production chains and govern a rowdy crew to reign supreme over the seas!
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RAILGRADE
Single-player alternative to Trappist — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Trappist.
RAILGRADE is the train RTS game! Construct dense vertical railroads, build cities, construct vast factory chains with train automation! Restore an off world colony's economy all in the intense story driven campaign or relaxing sandbox mode!
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RimWorld
Single-player alternative to Trappist — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Trappist.
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
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Frostpunk
Single-player alternative to Trappist — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Trappist.
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
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Factorio
Single-player alternative to Trappist — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Trappist.
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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IXION
Single-player alternative to Trappist — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Trappist.
IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?
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Alien
Single-player alternative to Trappist — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Trappist.
Alien is a visual novel exclusively for adults! This story is about a guy who has been dreaming of having sex with an alien woman for a very long time. At some point, this dream comes true and the guy finally fucked an alien woman!
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Annor
Single-player alternative to Trappist — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Annor is a puzzle adventure where the player incarnate an explorer progressing through a city mined by hidden enemies to reach the stone of Annor. Illuminate your environment with your scepter to detect the keys of the puzzle and the threat in order to fight it.