Single-player games like Imagine Earth
Below are 16 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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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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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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InfraSpace
Single-player alternative to Imagine Earth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Imagine Earth.
Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.
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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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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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Endzone - A World Apart
Single-player alternative to Imagine Earth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Imagine Earth.
Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.
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Endzone 2
Single-player alternative to Imagine Earth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Imagine Earth.
Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.
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Prison Architect
Single-player alternative to Imagine Earth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Imagine Earth.
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
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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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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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Croak Crusader: Spawn of the Spore Spectre
Single-player alternative to Imagine Earth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Imagine Earth.
Embark on an odyssey into the unknown! Behold the tale of Toadman, an enigmatic being born from alien tech and the mysteries of Radiant Verde. Witness his perilous quest through treacherous jungles to confront Captain Croak in an epic showdown! Welcome to "Spawn of the Spore Spectre"!
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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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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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Rise of Nations: Extended Edition
Single-player alternative to Imagine Earth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Imagine Earth.
Rise of Nations is back! Play the updated classic with full Steamworks integration and enhanced features!