Single-player games like Malignus
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Malignus, 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 Malignus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Malignus.
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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Mountainhall
Single-player alternative to Malignus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Malignus.
The dwarves have chosen you. Will you lead them? A new land, a new start, and a mountain waiting to become a home. Dig it out from the inside, lead a colony of dwarves with lives of their own, and stand with them when the goblins come. Build a settlement, a fortress, a Mountainhall.
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Stellar Shipyard
Single-player alternative to Malignus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Malignus.
Stellar Shipyard is a space colony sandbox where you design modular ships and stations, and automate resource production using drones and workers. Let the automated systems fly even the most improvised designs. Face rival factions and threats solo, or alongside friends as allies or rivals.
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TimbrianGuard
Single-player alternative to Malignus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Malignus.
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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Scherbenmark: The Old Mine
Single-player alternative to Malignus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Malignus.
You are the Steiger, the foreman responsible for the mine and everyone who works beneath the earth. Hire and manage miners, expand the tunnels, secure valuable ore, trade your resources and keep the mine running. The deeper you dig, the greater the rewards and the greater the dangers waiting below.
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GearTopia
Single-player alternative to Malignus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Malignus.
Supply a war you don't fight. A steampunk factory with no wires anywhere: water, steam, shafts and gears. When flat ground runs out, build downward. Fill the orders of dwarven fortresses — they hold only as long as you keep shipping.
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Mithril
Single-player alternative to Malignus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Malignus.
Explore and mine in procedural caves. Master using struts to delve deeper and support the ceiling before it falls. Build automation chains to process ores. Then manipulate lava and trigger Dormancy to crystallise new ore where lava once flowed. Same world. New cave. New dangers. The world remembers.
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CryoFall
Single-player alternative to Malignus — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Malignus.
CryoFall is a sci-fi colony simulation survival game set on a forgotten planet in a distant future. Master technology, agriculture, trading, industry, cybernetics, exploration, and more!