Single-player games like Brand New World
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Brand New World, 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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Terrahold
Single-player alternative to Brand New World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Brand New World.
Build an autonomous colony on a living procedural planet. Gather resources, command robots, expand your power grid, and defend the teleporter from an ecosystem that reacts to every step of your growth. Activate the link—or lose everything.
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Ascent of Ashes
Single-player alternative to Brand New World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Brand New World.
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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Infection Free Zone
Single-player alternative to Brand New World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Brand New World.
Choose any real region from the world. Choose your base of operations, then rebuild and readapt the buildings around you to create a self-sustaining settlement. Take charge of a group of survivors from your city. And when the night falls - Defend the zone from the infected!
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Imagine Earth
Single-player alternative to Brand New World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Brand New World.
Build your own global colonies on distant worlds. Manage energy and resource supplies and produce goods for space trade. Form economic and diplomatic alliances or take over competing corporations. Conduct research to protect your colonists from disasters and avoid a climate crisis.
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After Long Night
Single-player alternative to Brand New World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Brand New World.
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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Clanfolk
Single-player alternative to Brand New World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Brand New World.
Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.
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From Glory To Goo
Single-player alternative to Brand New World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Brand New World.
From Glory To Goo is a Sci-Fi survival RTS set on an alien world. Serve as humanity's bulwark by establishing a colony and supporting your colonists still in orbit. But beware, for The Goo, a relentless and shape-shifting force approaches from all sides, even above and below.
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Colony Survival
Single-player alternative to Brand New World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Brand New World.
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!