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Single-player games like Novus Terminus: First Flags

Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Novus Terminus: First Flags, 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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    Solar Kingdoms: Human Survival — Steam game cover

    Solar Kingdoms: Human Survival

    Single-player alternative to Novus Terminus: First Flags — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Novus Terminus: First Flags.

    Solar Kingdoms is a real-time strategy game where you command forces across solar systems, engaging in large battles both in space and on the surfaces planets. Establish colonies, find resources and artifacts, and fight up to 8 factions in skirmish, large campaign, missions, and multiplayer.

    2024ActionStrategySimulation14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    TRIBAL "The 12 Gates" — Steam game cover

    TRIBAL "The 12 Gates"

    Single-player alternative to Novus Terminus: First Flags — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Novus Terminus: First Flags.

    TRIBAL is a Persistent Online Multiplayer Real Time 2D Strategy game where you take the role of Tribe Chieftain and lead your medieval tribe to global domination… or not. The fight for survival goes on with or without you. Prepare your Tribe for greatness and try not to sleep too much.

    2022ActionStrategySimulation24.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Folklands — Steam game cover

    Folklands

    Single-player alternative to Novus Terminus: First Flags — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Novus Terminus: First Flags.

    Folklands is a relaxing settlement builder with a retro look and feel set in a fantasy Nordic-inspired world. Harvest, produce and trade resources from multiple production chains as you grow your settlement. Keep your folks happy and safe and tend to their needs in a living and changing world.

    2026StrategySimulation10.49 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Dummynation — Steam game cover

    Dummynation

    Single-player alternative to Novus Terminus: First Flags — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Novus Terminus: First Flags.

    Geopolitical management game with real-time shifting borders and a streamlined gameplay, designed to minimize all burdensome chores while allowing an absolute strategic control, from military recruitment and deployment, to diplomatic and economic management.

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation11.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Sins of a Solar Empire®: Rebellion — Steam game cover

    Sins of a Solar Empire®: Rebellion

    Single-player alternative to Novus Terminus: First Flags — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Novus Terminus: First Flags.

    Command a space-faring empire in Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion, the new stand-alone expansion that combines 4X depth with real-time strategy gameplay.

    2012ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Castle Story — Steam game cover

    Castle Story

    Single-player alternative to Novus Terminus: First Flags — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Novus Terminus: First Flags.

    Castle Story is a creative voxel-based strategy game in which you can build castles one brick at a time using an army of little creatures called Bricktrons. Design and build your own castles, expand your territory in a vast landscape and defend your Bricktrons against onslaughts of hostile creatures.

    2017StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    AI War 2 — Steam game cover

    AI War 2

    Single-player alternative to Novus Terminus: First Flags — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Novus Terminus: First Flags.

    The most devious and acclaimed artificial intelligence in strategy gaming is better than ever. A grand strategy/RTS hybrid that reverses many conventions of both genres. Take territory without attracting attention, build your empire with care, and adapt to an ever-evolving galactic battleground.

    2019StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Attack on Toys — Steam game cover

    Attack on Toys

    Single-player alternative to Novus Terminus: First Flags — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Novus Terminus: First Flags.

    Relive Your Childhood Toys comes to life! Build your Army Toys, make battle scenario, watch the Toys battling each other, and customize your play with Attack on Toys Toy Box. Command your Army Toys to fight againts another toys strategically and keep them alive during battle!

    2021ActionStrategyIndie6.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →