Single-player games like Anno 2205™
Below are 20 single-player Steam games similar to Anno 2205™, 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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Anno 2070™
Single-player alternative to Anno 2205™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Anno 2205™.
Build your society of the future, colonize islands, and create sprawling megacities with multitudes of buildings, vehicles, and resources to manage.
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Anno 1800
Single-player alternative to Anno 2205™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 2205™.
Anno 1800™ – Lead the Industrial Revolution! Welcome to the dawn of the Industrial Age. The path you choose will define your world. Are you an innovator or an exploiter? A conqueror or a liberator? How the world remembers your name is up to you.
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Farthest Frontier
Single-player alternative to Anno 2205™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 2205™.
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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Surviving Mars
Single-player alternative to Anno 2205™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 2205™.
There will be challenges to overcome. Execute your strategy and improve your colony’s chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world. Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.
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Age of Wonders: Planetfall
Single-player alternative to Anno 2205™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Anno 2205™.
Age of Wonders: Planetfall is the new strategy game from Triumph Studios, creators of the critically acclaimed Age of Wonders series, bringing all the exciting tactical turn-based combat and in-depth empire building of its predecessors to space in an all-new, sci-fi setting.
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Imagine Earth
Single-player alternative to Anno 2205™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 2205™.
Build your own global colonies on distant worlds. Manage energy and resource supplies and produce goods for space trade. Form economic and diplomatic alliances or take over competing corporations. Conduct research to protect your colonists from disasters and avoid a climate crisis.
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Dawn of Discovery™
Single-player alternative to Anno 2205™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 2205™.
A unique and award-winning combination of construction, economy, discovery, diplomacy, and combat. Create your own nation with a unique blend of simulation and real-time strategy as you journey across the globe to explore, trade, and learn technologies to expand your empire and to make your own history. Meet the Orient!
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Cliff Empire
Single-player alternative to Anno 2205™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 2205™.
After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!
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Cities: Skylines
Single-player alternative to Anno 2205™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 2205™.
Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.
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Tropico 6
Single-player alternative to Anno 2205™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 2205™.
El Presidente is back! Prove yourself once again as a feared dictator or peace-loving statesman on the island state of Tropico and shape the fate of your very own banana republic through four distinctive eras.
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Manor Lords
Single-player alternative to Anno 2205™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 2205™.
Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.
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Frostpunk
Single-player alternative to Anno 2205™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 2205™.
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?
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Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
Single-player alternative to Anno 2205™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 2205™.
Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.
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Sweet Transit
Single-player alternative to Anno 2205™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 2205™.
Sweet Transit is a unique city builder where the railway is king. Build and automate the dream supply chain for your citizens, giving them all they need to expand quaint villages into bustling cities. Progress from steam power to diesel and beyond in this advanced train-driven experience.
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Foundation
Single-player alternative to Anno 2205™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 2205™.
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
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FOR HONOR™
Single-player alternative to Anno 2205™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Fight alone or with friends in For Honor, a third-person hero-based melee fighting game. Enter the chaos of war as a Knight, a Viking, a Samurai, a Wu Lin, or an Outlander. Fight in brutal PvP and team-oriented modes, or play the thrilling story campaign.
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Champions of Anteria™
Single-player alternative to Anno 2205™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Anno 2205™.
Champions of Anteria is a tactical Real Time Strategy Game that will allow players to lead and develop their group of cheerful champions into tactical action battles, to save the legendary Kingdom of Anteria.
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Anno Online
Single-player alternative to Anno 2205™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 2205™.
Anno Online is a free-to-play city-builder game that lets you develop big magnificent metropolises in the medieval times.
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Might & Magic Heroes Online
Single-player alternative to Anno 2205™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Anno 2205™.
Explore this vast fantasy world of Ashan - from the glorious temples of Elrath, the Dragon of Light, to the undead lands of Nar-Heresh.
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The Settlers Online
Single-player alternative to Anno 2205™ — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 2205™.
Build a medieval kingdom in The Settlers Online!