Single-player games like Sol 0: Mars Colonization
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Sol 0: Mars Colonization, 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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Surviving Mars
Single-player alternative to Sol 0: Mars Colonization — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Sol 0: Mars Colonization.
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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Planetbase
Single-player alternative to Sol 0: Mars Colonization — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sol 0: Mars Colonization.
Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.
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Aven Colony
Single-player alternative to Sol 0: Mars Colonization — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sol 0: Mars Colonization.
Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.
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Mars Colony:Challenger
Single-player alternative to Sol 0: Mars Colonization — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sol 0: Mars Colonization.
Mars Colony: Challenger is a 3D first / third person game that offers you the challenge of setting up a remote base on the surface of Mars. At its core, the game was derived from a simulator where everything is interactively tied together.
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Per Aspera
Single-player alternative to Sol 0: Mars Colonization — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sol 0: Mars Colonization.
Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.
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Mars Horizon
Single-player alternative to Sol 0: Mars Colonization — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sol 0: Mars Colonization.
Lead a major space agency as you guide humanity to Mars in this strategy simulation game. Construct a base, design and build rockets, conduct missions throughout the Solar System, and write your own history of Space exploration. Created with support from the European Space Agency.
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Offworld Trading Company
Single-player alternative to Sol 0: Mars Colonization — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sol 0: Mars Colonization.
Mars has been colonized, and Earth's corporate titans fight to dominate this new market. Competition is fierce in this fast-paced economic RTS from Civilization IV Lead Designer, Soren Johnson.
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Oxygen Not Included
Single-player alternative to Sol 0: Mars Colonization — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sol 0: Mars Colonization.
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
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Banished
Single-player alternative to Sol 0: Mars Colonization — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sol 0: Mars Colonization.
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.