Single-player games like Surviving Mars
Below are 23 single-player Steam games similar to Surviving Mars, 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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Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving Mars.
Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game. With unique vertical and horizontal base-building gameplay, settle on 10 hostile alien planets and build your own thriving colony. Get enough materials to build a physics-based Spaceship and try to escape from disasters.
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Space Haven
Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving Mars.
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
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Planetbase
Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving Mars.
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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The Final Earth 2
Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving Mars.
The Final Earth 2 is a vertical sci-fi city builder. Earth is unlivable, so you decide to create a space colony. Gather resources, then build and research your way to a better future! Grow your city from an exploration ship to a huge metropolis, full of advanced technology. What will you build?
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Oxygen Not Included
Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Surviving Mars.
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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Aven Colony
Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving Mars.
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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Dyson Sphere Program
Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving Mars.
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
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Frostpunk
Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving Mars.
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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Stellaris
Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving Mars.
Explore a galaxy full of wonders in this sci-fi grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studios. Interact with diverse alien races, discover strange new worlds with unexpected events and expand the reach of your empire. Each new adventure holds almost limitless possibilities.
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SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition
Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving Mars.
SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition includes the bestselling SimCity 4 and the all-new SimCity 4 Rush Hour Expansion Pack. Create the most massive region of cities ever, with a farming town, bedroom community, high-tech commercial center, and industrial backbone.
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Outpost
Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
this is a tower defence game,we need upgrade our weapons to fight waves of enemies,robots can mining diamonds,and we need spent those in many aspect，features of this game: 1 return back before dager comes,2tempory upgrade are important but permanent upgrade are better
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
EPIC FANTASY REBORN The next chapter in the highly anticipated Elder Scrolls saga arrives from the makers of the 2006 and 2008 Games of the Year, Bethesda Game Studios. Skyrim reimagines and revolutionizes the open-world fantasy epic, bringing to life a complete virtual world open for you to explore any way you choose.
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RimWorld
Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving Mars.
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
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Cities: Skylines
Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving Mars.
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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Per Aspera
Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving Mars.
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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Jagged Alliance 3
Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Surviving Mars.
The country of Grand Chien is thrown into chaos when the elected president goes missing and the paramilitary force known as “the Legion” seizes control. Hire mercs, meet interesting characters, and fight in tactically deep turn-based combat in this true successor to a beloved franchise.
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Tropico 5
Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving Mars.
Return to the remote island nation of Tropico and expand your Dynasty’s reign from the early colonial period to beyond the 21st Century, facing new challenges including advanced trading mechanics, technology and scientific research, as well as cooperative and competitive MULTIPLAYER.
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Stranded: Alien Dawn
Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving Mars.
Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.
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Tropico 4
Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving Mars.
The world is changing and Tropico is moving with the times - geographical powers rise and fall and the world market is dominated by new players with new demands and offers - and you, as El Presidente, face a whole new set of challenges.
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Victor Vran ARPG
Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Victor Vran is the isometric action-RPG where your skill is just as essential as your character build and gear. Experience intense combat action: dodge, jump and unleash powerful skills to finish off your enemies!
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Surviving Mars: Relaunched
Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving Mars.
The award-winning sci-fi city builder is back - remastered, expanded and even more stunning. Colonize Mars and survive the process, from exploration and infrastructure to welcoming colonists and achieving long-term stability. Are you ready? Mars is waiting.
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Omerta - City of Gangsters
Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving Mars.
Omerta - City of Gangsters is a simulation game with tactical turn-based combat. Taking the role of a fresh-from-the-boat immigrant, with dreams of the big life, the player will work his way up the criminal hierarchy of 1920’s Atlantic City.
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Tropico 3
Single-player alternative to Surviving Mars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving Mars.
Become the dictator of a remote island during the Cold War. Charm, persuade, intimidate, oppress, or cheat your people to stay in power! Are you a kind and generous leader? A corrupt and ruthless tyrant ruling with an iron fist?