Single-player games like Colony Survival
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Colony Survival, 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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Settletopia
Single-player alternative to Colony Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Colony Survival.
Grow a small colony into a vast, world-spanning civilization. Play solo or with friends as you gather resources, build cities, manage colonist needs, explore uncharted lands, establish logistics, raise armies, forge alliances, and wage wars—all in a living world.
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7 Days to Die
Single-player alternative to Colony Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Colony Survival.
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
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Castle Story
Single-player alternative to Colony Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Colony Survival.
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.
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ARK: Survival Ascended
Single-player alternative to Colony Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Colony Survival.
ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!
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Sapiens
Single-player alternative to Colony Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Colony Survival.
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.
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Factorio
Single-player alternative to Colony Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Colony Survival.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
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CryoFall
Single-player alternative to Colony Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Colony Survival.
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!
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Rising World
Single-player alternative to Colony Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Colony Survival.
Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.
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They Are Billions
Single-player alternative to Colony Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Colony Survival.
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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Pixel Piracy
Single-player alternative to Colony Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Colony Survival.
Embark on an epic 2D pirate simulator RPG adventure, where you navigate both land and sea. Upgrade your ship, recruit and level up your crew, and uncover hidden treasures as you become a legendary pirate.
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Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
Single-player alternative to Colony Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Colony Survival.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
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Minecraft Legends
Single-player alternative to Colony Survival — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Colony Survival.
Discover the mysteries of Minecraft Legends, a new action strategy game. Explore a gentle land of rich resources and lush biomes on the brink of destruction. The ravaging piglins have arrived, and it’s up to you to inspire your allies and lead them in strategic battles to save the Overworld!