Single-player games like Imagine Earth
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Imagine Earth, 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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Cliff Empire
Single-player alternative to Imagine Earth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Imagine Earth.
After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!
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Synergy
Single-player alternative to Imagine Earth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Imagine Earth.
An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.
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Factory Town
Single-player alternative to Imagine Earth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Imagine Earth.
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
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The Colonists
Single-player alternative to Imagine Earth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Imagine Earth.
Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.
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Anno 2205™
Single-player alternative to Imagine Earth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Imagine Earth.
In Anno 2205™, you join humankind‘s next step into the future with the promise to build a better tomorrow. You conquer Earth, establishing rich, bustling cities and grand industrial complexes, but to secure the prosperity of your people, you must travel into space.
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Timberborn
Single-player alternative to Imagine Earth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Imagine Earth.
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
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Offworld Trading Company
Single-player alternative to Imagine Earth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Imagine Earth.
Mars has been colonized, and Earth's corporate titans fight to dominate this new market. Competition is fierce in this fast-paced economic RTS from Civilization IV Lead Designer, Soren Johnson.
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Per Aspera
Single-player alternative to Imagine Earth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Imagine Earth.
Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.
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Spacebase Startopia
Single-player alternative to Imagine Earth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Imagine Earth.
Spacebase Startopia captivates with its original mixture of economic simulation and empire building strategy paired with classic RTS skirmishes and a good dose of humor.
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Stellaris
Single-player alternative to Imagine Earth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Imagine Earth.
Explore a galaxy full of wonders in this sci-fi grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studios. Interact with diverse alien races, discover strange new worlds with unexpected events and expand the reach of your empire. Each new adventure holds almost limitless possibilities.
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Distant Worlds 2
Single-player alternative to Imagine Earth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Imagine Earth.
Distant Worlds 2 is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game.
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Power the Future
Single-player alternative to Imagine Earth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Imagine Earth.
Power the Future is a strategy game that allows you to take control of Germany, the USA, China, India, Australia, Japan or the UK. Develop and deploy technology and lead your country into the future. Compete to be the World Leader or focus on three other possible Victory Paths for each country.
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Sid Meier's Civilization® V
Single-player alternative to Imagine Earth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Imagine Earth.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
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Sid Meier's Civilization VII
Single-player alternative to Imagine Earth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Imagine Earth.
The award-winning strategy game franchise returns with a revolutionary new chapter. Sid Meier's Civilization® VII empowers you to build the greatest empire the world has ever known!