Single-player games like Frostpunk
Below are 21 single-player Steam games similar to Frostpunk, 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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Frostpunk 2
Single-player alternative to Frostpunk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Frostpunk.
Develop, expand, and advance your city in a society survival game set 30 years after an apocalyptic blizzard ravaged Earth. In Frostpunk 2, you face not only the perils of never-ending winter, but also the powerful factions that watch your every step inside the Council Hall.
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Endzone - A World Apart
Single-player alternative to Frostpunk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Frostpunk.
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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They Are Billions
Single-player alternative to Frostpunk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Frostpunk.
They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?
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Endzone 2
Single-player alternative to Frostpunk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Frostpunk.
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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Oxygen
Single-player alternative to Frostpunk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Frostpunk.
Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!
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Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
Single-player alternative to Frostpunk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Frostpunk.
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
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Northgard: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Frostpunk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Frostpunk.
Northgard: Definitive Edition is a critically acclaimed real-time strategy game based on Norse mythology. Lead your clan, uncover the secrets of a mysterious newfound continent and defeat your enemies to conquer the Throne!
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Surviving Mars
Single-player alternative to Frostpunk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Frostpunk.
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.
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Kingdoms and Castles
Single-player alternative to Frostpunk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Frostpunk.
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
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SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition
Single-player alternative to Frostpunk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Frostpunk.
SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition includes the bestselling SimCity 4 and the all-new SimCity 4 Rush Hour Expansion Pack. Create the most massive region of cities ever, with a farming town, bedroom community, high-tech commercial center, and industrial backbone.
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This War of Mine
Single-player alternative to Frostpunk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Frostpunk.
In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle.
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FTL: Faster Than Light
Single-player alternative to Frostpunk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Frostpunk.
This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.
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Hive
Single-player alternative to Frostpunk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Frostpunk.
Officially licensed version of the "Mensa Select" award-winning board game! Hive is a board game with a difference. There is no board! The pieces are added to the playing area thus creating the board.
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Slay the Spire
Single-player alternative to Frostpunk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Frostpunk.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
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Solitaire
Single-player alternative to Frostpunk — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The classic card game is back in a digital version that everyone can play! Enjoy a quick game or chase after points to climb up the world rankings. 4 different settings and 3 popular game modes. Quite simply, Solitaire.
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The Alters
Single-player alternative to Frostpunk — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Explore an emotional sci-fi game with a unique blend of survival, adventure, and base-building elements. Help Jan Dolski, the sole survivor of an ill-fated space expedition, create alternative versions of himself to escape a hostile planet and tackle personal turmoils with this unconventional crew.
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Anomaly: Warzone Earth
Single-player alternative to Frostpunk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Frostpunk.
Lead an armored squad through the perils of this reversed tower defense action-strategy game!
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Anomaly 2
Single-player alternative to Frostpunk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Frostpunk.
Anomaly 2 is a sequel to the critically acclaimed Anomaly Warzone Earth. Maintaining the core elements of the original, Anomaly 2 adds plenty of new features: unit morphing, over million tactical combinations, post-apo world and tower defense vs tower offense multiplayer mode.
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Anomaly Defenders
Single-player alternative to Frostpunk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Frostpunk.
Anomaly Defenders is the closing installment of the Anomaly series. The original incarnation of the Tower Offense sub-genre had players controlling humans fighting alien invaders. Now, the tables have turned. The human counterattack is underway and the alien homeworld is under threat.
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Anomaly Korea
Single-player alternative to Frostpunk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Frostpunk.
Exclusively brought to Steam for PC, Mac and Linux in Anomaly Bundle, Anomaly Korea is an expansion campaign to Anomaly Warzone Earth. The alien robots are back and this time they’ve got Korea in their sights. It’s your job to lead a squad into fierce fire-fights and fend off the alien invasion.
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Anomaly Warzone Earth Mobile Campaign
Single-player alternative to Frostpunk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Frostpunk.
Anomaly Warzone Earth Mobile Campaign continues Steam's Anomaly Warzone Earth in an extra 15-level campaign. Originally released on mobile devices, the campaign is brought to Steam for PC, Mac and Linux exclusively in Anomaly Bundle. AWE Mobile Campaign turns tower defense on its head.