Single-player games like Exile
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Exile, 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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Seeds of Resilience
Single-player alternative to Exile — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Exile.
Ready to start anew? Build a village from scratch in Seeds of Resilience. Learn to choose the right items, understand nature's patterns, use real life-based constructions and craft techniques in this turn-based tycoon game.
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Settlements Rising
Single-player alternative to Exile — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Exile.
Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.
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RimWorld
Single-player alternative to Exile — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Exile.
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
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Dwarf Fortress
Single-player alternative to Exile — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Exile.
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.
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Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
Single-player alternative to Exile — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Exile.
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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Endzone 2
Single-player alternative to Exile — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Exile.
Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.
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Endzone - A World Apart
Single-player alternative to Exile — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Exile.
Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.
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Frostpunk
Single-player alternative to Exile — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Exile.
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?