Single-player games like Basement
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Basement, 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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Cartel Tycoon
Single-player alternative to Basement — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Basement.
Cartel Tycoon is a survival business sim inspired by the ‘80s and '90s narco trade. Expand and conquer, fight off rival thugs and evade the authorities. Earn people's loyalty and strive to overcome the doomed fate of a power-hungry drug lord.
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Schedule I
Single-player alternative to Basement — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Basement.
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
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Cataclismo
Single-player alternative to Basement — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Strategy with Basement.
Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.
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Prison Architect
Single-player alternative to Basement — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Basement.
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
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Oxygen Not Included
Single-player alternative to Basement — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Basement.
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
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Sheltered
Single-player alternative to Basement — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Strategy with Basement.
Sheltered is a deep and emotional survival management game. You take on the role of protecting four family members who, after a global apocalypse, have found their way to a deserted shelter.
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Drug Lord Tycoon
Single-player alternative to Basement — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Basement.
Start from nothing and rise to the top as you expand your criminal empire in Drug Lord Tycoon.
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Farthest Frontier
Single-player alternative to Basement — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Basement.
Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.
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Terraria
Single-player alternative to Basement — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Basement.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
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Undead Inc.
Single-player alternative to Basement — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Basement.
Undead Inc. is a high-risk, high-reward resource management simulator where you establish and manage a local subsidiary of the Endswell Medical Corporation. Build, manage staff, conduct research, and trade in both cutting edge medical treatments and bleeding edge bioweapons.