Single-player games like Take Root
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Take Root, 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 Take Root — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Take Root.
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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The Wuslers
Single-player alternative to Take Root — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Take Root.
Build a cozy settlement and economy where little Wuslers carry every single good on foot along the roads you lay out. Feed your mines, expand your territory with barracks and play solo, against the AI or with up to eight players on PC and Android.
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Oxytopia
Single-player alternative to Take Root — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Take Root.
A co-op colony sandbox where temperature and fluids run on a living cellular-automaton simulation. Terraform a dead world with friends, build a base that runs itself… then watch one leak bring it all down.
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TimbrianGuard
Single-player alternative to Take Root — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Take Root.
Satus (Latin for beginning/sowing) is a voxel-based sand box colony management sim. Players will be tasked with overseeing their colony as they fight for survival while expanding their colony's influence, creating new outposts, and attracting new colonists in the process.
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CircuitVeil
Single-player alternative to Take Root — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Take Root.
CircuitVeil is a Single-player / Multiplayer isometric factory game where you boot an artificial mind. Mine the substrate, build production lines, specialize as Engineer, Defender, or Prospector, and send your factory's output through the off-world transfer beam.
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Last Civilization: Inherited Flame
Single-player alternative to Take Root — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Take Root.
Build a settlement around the last flame. Gather, construct, and research by day, then defend against the Shadows at night. When a village falls, carry its records and memories into the next civilization and endure one night longer.
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Forsaken: Year One
Single-player alternative to Take Root — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Take Root.
Rebuild society as you see fit in this survival community management game. Centered around survivors, their needs and their relationships, you will have to make hard choices to survive and rebuild after the apocalypse.
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After Long Night
Single-player alternative to Take Root — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Take Root.
After Long Night is a sandbox survival RTS. Build and fortify your base, scavenge every corner for vital resources, craft deadly weapons, and raise a militia to fight off relentless zombie hordes that strike every night. In this world, scavenging isn't just survival—it's strategy, power and war.
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Broadcast Paranoia: a horror anthology
Single-player alternative to Take Root — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Take Root.
Tune in to paranoia! Broadcast Paranoia is an anthology of 7 short horror games about radio and conspiracy theories. Decode signals, seek the truth, and try not to lose your mind. Each story takes 15–30 minutes to complete.