Single-player games like After Long Night
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to After Long Night, 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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The Blighted Frontier
Single-player alternative to After Long Night — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with After Long Night.
Rebuild civilization in a world consumed by the blight. Manage survivors, defend against the dead, and transform a fragile camp into a thriving frontier settlement.
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Powerplay
Single-player alternative to After Long Night — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with After Long Night.
Powerplay is an RTS with a focus on resources and industry. Create supply chains, transport, and explore in this thrilling base builder. Grow into a powerful industrial nation, but don't spread too thin! Resources are finite and "the others" can reclaim what is theirs at any time.
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Undead Defense TD
Single-player alternative to After Long Night — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with After Long Night.
Zombies are coming! Build your defenses and expand your settlement to create a safe space for humanity. Use turrets, walls and light towers to keep the darkness safe. Expand your settlement to find abandoned settlements and additional resources.
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Starship Colony
Single-player alternative to After Long Night — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with After Long Night.
A deep starship colony sim. Build your starship, manage air, water, food, fuel, energy, temperature and psychology to keep your crew alive across vast distances. Closed-loop system in space. Mining, wiring, plumbing, in-ship factory, (alien?) radio signals & translation, diplomacy, combat, and more.
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They Are Billions
Single-player alternative to After Long Night — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with After Long Night.
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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Infection Free Zone
Single-player alternative to After Long Night — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with After Long Night.
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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Rebirth evolution
Single-player alternative to After Long Night — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with After Long Night.
2D pixel style simulation business strategy game Build and operate your own survivor base, recruit and cultivate various professional combatants. Clear zombie strongholds, reduce regional infections, survive in the apocalypse, and establish your own power.
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The Wandering Village
Single-player alternative to After Long Night — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with After Long Night.
The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?