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Single-player games like Surviving Mars: Relaunched

Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Surviving Mars: Relaunched, 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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    Surviving Mars — Steam game cover

    Surviving Mars

    Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars: Relaunched — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving Mars: Relaunched.

    There will be challenges to overcome. Execute your strategy and improve your colony’s chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world. Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.

    2018StrategySimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Cloudlings — Steam game cover

    Cloudlings

    Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars: Relaunched — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving Mars: Relaunched.

    Cloudlings is a cute colony sim set amongst the clouds. Guide a small tribe of curious creatures as they build a floating village, merge drifting islands, manage resources, unlock upgrades, and uncover the mysteries hiding beyond the clouds.

    StrategyIndieSimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Corsair Cove — Steam game cover

    Corsair Cove

    Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars: Relaunched — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving Mars: Relaunched.

    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!

    2026StrategySimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Pioneers of Pagonia — Steam game cover

    Pioneers of Pagonia

    Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars: Relaunched — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving Mars: Relaunched.

    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.

    2025StrategySimulation34.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Captain of Industry — Steam game cover

    Captain of Industry

    Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars: Relaunched — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving Mars: Relaunched.

    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.

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation34.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Solargene — Steam game cover

    Solargene

    Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars: Relaunched — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving Mars: Relaunched.

    Take Command of a Space Corporation in the Sci-Fi Simulator Solargene! Manage personnel, design and develop colonies and orbital stations across the solar system! Mine resources, establish logistics, research cutting-edge technologies, trade, and complete missions

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation34.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder — Steam game cover

    Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder

    Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars: Relaunched — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving Mars: Relaunched.

    Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game. With unique vertical and horizontal base-building gameplay, settle on 10 hostile alien planets and build your own thriving colony. Get enough materials to build a physics-based Spaceship and try to escape from disasters.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation4.79 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Whiskerwood — Steam game cover

    Whiskerwood

    Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars: Relaunched — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving Mars: Relaunched.

    Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.

    2025StrategySimulationEarly Access29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    memory® – The Original Matching Game from Ravensburger — Steam game cover

    memory® – The Original Matching Game from Ravensburger

    Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars: Relaunched — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    The original matching game from Ravensburger.

    2022Casual14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Jagged Alliance 3 — Steam game cover

    Jagged Alliance 3

    Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars: Relaunched — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Surviving Mars: Relaunched.

    The country of Grand Chien is thrown into chaos when the elected president goes missing and the paramilitary force known as “the Legion” seizes control. Hire mercs, meet interesting characters, and fight in tactically deep turn-based combat in this true successor to a beloved franchise.

    2023ActionStrategy13.49 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Tropico 5 — Steam game cover

    Tropico 5

    Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars: Relaunched — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving Mars: Relaunched.

    Return to the remote island nation of Tropico and expand your Dynasty’s reign from the early colonial period to beyond the 21st Century, facing new challenges including advanced trading mechanics, technology and scientific research, as well as cooperative and competitive MULTIPLAYER.

    2014StrategySimulationRPG19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Stranded: Alien Dawn — Steam game cover

    Stranded: Alien Dawn

    Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars: Relaunched — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving Mars: Relaunched.

    Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.

    2023StrategySimulation17.49 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Tropico 4 — Steam game cover

    Tropico 4

    Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars: Relaunched — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving Mars: Relaunched.

    The world is changing and Tropico is moving with the times - geographical powers rise and fall and the world market is dominated by new players with new demands and offers - and you, as El Presidente, face a whole new set of challenges.

    2011StrategySimulation14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Victor Vran ARPG — Steam game cover

    Victor Vran ARPG

    Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars: Relaunched — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    Victor Vran is the isometric action-RPG where your skill is just as essential as your character build and gear. Experience intense combat action: dodge, jump and unleash powerful skills to finish off your enemies!

    2015ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Omerta - City of Gangsters — Steam game cover

    Omerta - City of Gangsters

    Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars: Relaunched — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving Mars: Relaunched.

    Omerta - City of Gangsters is a simulation game with tactical turn-based combat. Taking the role of a fresh-from-the-boat immigrant, with dreams of the big life, the player will work his way up the criminal hierarchy of 1920’s Atlantic City.

    2013StrategySimulation14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Tropico 3 — Steam game cover

    Tropico 3

    Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars: Relaunched — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving Mars: Relaunched.

    Become the dictator of a remote island during the Cold War. Charm, persuade, intimidate, oppress, or cheat your people to stay in power! Are you a kind and generous leader? A corrupt and ruthless tyrant ruling with an iron fist?

    2009StrategySimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →