Single-player games like Shipolis
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Shipolis, 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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Harvest Village
Single-player alternative to Shipolis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shipolis.
Harvest Village is a resource gathering and crafting paradise. It is a mini city building game where we process resources and try to craft the most valuable items and complete various quests. Upgrade your buildings and become the best miner, cook and toolmaker.
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Imagine Earth
Single-player alternative to Shipolis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shipolis.
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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Anno 1800
Single-player alternative to Shipolis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shipolis.
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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Pioneers of Pagonia
Single-player alternative to Shipolis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shipolis.
Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.
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Fabledom
Single-player alternative to Shipolis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shipolis.
Set in a wholesome fairytale world, Fabledom is a laid-back City builder. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, interact with your neighbors and defend your kingdom from magical creatures. All to find true love and live happily ever after!
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Nebuchadnezzar
Single-player alternative to Shipolis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shipolis.
Create and customize cities in Nebuchadnezzar, a classic isometric city-builder where careful planning and define your rise as a ruler in ancient Mesopotamia.
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Anno 2205™
Single-player alternative to Shipolis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shipolis.
In Anno 2205™, you join humankind‘s next step into the future with the promise to build a better tomorrow. You conquer Earth, establishing rich, bustling cities and grand industrial complexes, but to secure the prosperity of your people, you must travel into space.
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Going Medieval
Single-player alternative to Shipolis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shipolis.
Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.
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Skycliffs
Single-player alternative to Shipolis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Shipolis.
Skycliffs is an action shooter roguelike dungeon crawler with fast-paced top-down platforming. Jump and dash across sky islands, fight loads of monsters, and get upgrades to survive the many dangers of your journey. Will you be strong enough to reach and defeat the keeper of this floating world?
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Destroy The Monoliths
Single-player alternative to Shipolis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shipolis.
Explore. Mine. Build. Fight. Destroy The Monoliths is a single-player real-time mining tower offense roguelike where you explore a randomly generated map, mine the terrain to get resources, and build turrets to both protect your base and fight monoliths that keep spawning ever more minions.
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Comet Force
Single-player alternative to Shipolis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shipolis.
Comet Force is a Space Arena Shooter Action Roguelite. Build your camp, recruit to compose and grow your troop, collect upgrades and unique effects, fight enemies and bosses, and choose how the threat evolves. Keep your troop strong enough to survive all waves and close off the anomaly.