Single-player games like Nettle
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Nettle, 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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Terrafort
Single-player alternative to Nettle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Nettle.
A procedurally generated sandbox survival game with RTS elements.
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Kings Town
Single-player alternative to Nettle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Nettle.
Build up your own civilization in the time of kings and kingdoms. Become the manager of a little town and make it to a great city. Defend it from other kingdoms and destroy them.
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Gateworlds
Single-player alternative to Nettle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Nettle.
Gateworlds is a colony sim about exploring and surviving a fantasy wilderness. Find your way in a world of floating islands, strange creatures, and fickle gods.
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Alien Marauder
Single-player alternative to Nettle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Nettle.
“Alien Marauder” is a real-time strategy game with survival and confrontation theme. In this game, you will be the leader to a treacherous alien planet, build and defend base to survive against the vexan waves. Make the right decision!
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Freaking Meatbags
Single-player alternative to Nettle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Nettle.
Land on a planet, pick up some rocks, leave before the solar system explodes. Oh, and don't die in the nightly robot attacks! Freaking Meatbags is a humorous real-time strategy game that's all about building a base, mixing meatbag DNA, then convincing those dolts to help you gather resources.
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Aliens: Dark Descent
Single-player alternative to Nettle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Nettle.
Drop into the gripping journey of Aliens: Dark Descent, a squad-based, single-player action game in the iconic Alien franchise. Lead your soldiers in real-time to stop a new and terrifying kind of Xenomorph outbreak on Planet Lethe.
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From Glory To Goo
Single-player alternative to Nettle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Nettle.
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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Ascent of Ashes
Single-player alternative to Nettle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Nettle.
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