Single-player games like Zomboard
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Zomboard, 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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Zombie Cure Lab
Single-player alternative to Zomboard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Zomboard.
In a world overrun by the undead, build a lab to fight back with science. Manage survivors, gather vital resources, and turn zombies into allies. Defend your base and research the cure to reclaim humanity.
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Goblins of Elderstone
Single-player alternative to Zomboard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Zomboard.
This Goblin Tribe Simulator brings a challenging blend of chaos and creativity to the city-building genre. Build dwellings, manage your resources, defend your goblins, and grow your tribe, and please the Gods! Do you have what it takes to control the chaos and rule the unruly?
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They Are Billions
Single-player alternative to Zomboard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Zomboard.
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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First Feudal
Single-player alternative to Zomboard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Zomboard.
Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.
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Final Outpost: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Zomboard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Zomboard.
Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse. Assign roles, craft tools, and manage resources carefully. Construct buildings, level up your citizens, and fortify your town against hordes of zombies. How many days can you survive?
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New Cycle
Single-player alternative to Zomboard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Zomboard.
New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.
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Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
Single-player alternative to Zomboard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Zomboard.
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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The Last Haven
Single-player alternative to Zomboard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Zomboard.
The world after a nuclear war. Manage the settlement, learn technology, make decisions, produce weapons, ammunition, organize defense, raid for supplies on other areas, do not let residents die, survive the nuclear winter.