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Single-player games like Settletopia

Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Settletopia, 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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    TimbrianGuard — Steam game cover

    TimbrianGuard

    Single-player alternative to Settletopia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Settletopia.

    Satus (Latin for beginning/sowing) is a voxel-based sand box colony management sim. Players will be tasked with overseeing their colony as they fight for survival while expanding their colony's influence, creating new outposts, and attracting new colonists in the process.

    StrategyIndieSimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Colony Survival — Steam game cover

    Colony Survival

    Single-player alternative to Settletopia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Settletopia.

    Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!

    2017ActionStrategyIndie24.95 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Castle Story — Steam game cover

    Castle Story

    Single-player alternative to Settletopia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Settletopia.

    Castle Story is a creative voxel-based strategy game in which you can build castles one brick at a time using an army of little creatures called Bricktrons. Design and build your own castles, expand your territory in a vast landscape and defend your Bricktrons against onslaughts of hostile creatures.

    2017StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Corsair Cove — Steam game cover

    Corsair Cove

    Single-player alternative to Settletopia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Settletopia.

    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!

    2026StrategySimulation39.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Sapiens — Steam game cover

    Sapiens

    Single-player alternative to Settletopia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Settletopia.

    Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation24.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    CryoFall — Steam game cover

    CryoFall

    Single-player alternative to Settletopia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Settletopia.

    CryoFall is a sci-fi colony simulation survival game set on a forgotten planet in a distant future. Master technology, agriculture, trading, industry, cybernetics, exploration, and more!

    2021ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Dwarf Fortress — Steam game cover

    Dwarf Fortress

    Single-player alternative to Settletopia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Settletopia.

    Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation23.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation — Steam game cover

    Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation

    Single-player alternative to Settletopia — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Settletopia.

    Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →