Single-player games like Aven Colony
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Aven Colony, 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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Surviving Mars
Single-player alternative to Aven Colony — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Aven Colony.
There will be challenges to overcome. Execute your strategy and improve your colony’s chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world. Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.
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Planetbase
Single-player alternative to Aven Colony — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Aven Colony.
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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Endzone - A World Apart
Single-player alternative to Aven Colony — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Aven Colony.
Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.
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Space Haven
Single-player alternative to Aven Colony — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Aven Colony.
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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The Crust
Single-player alternative to Aven Colony — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Aven Colony.
Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.
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Oxygen Not Included
Single-player alternative to Aven Colony — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Aven Colony.
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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Dwarf Fortress
Single-player alternative to Aven Colony — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Aven Colony.
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
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Against the Storm
Single-player alternative to Aven Colony — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Aven Colony.
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
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SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition
Single-player alternative to Aven Colony — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Aven Colony.
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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Frostpunk
Single-player alternative to Aven Colony — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Aven Colony.
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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Tiny Civilization
Single-player alternative to Aven Colony — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Aven Colony.
This is a historical simulation game that promotes the development of civilization based on the match-3 Game. You'll need to gather resources, use skills, discover new technology, and lead humanbeing through a 10,000-year journey to the cosmos.