Single-player games like I Missed the Apocalypse
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to I Missed the Apocalypse, 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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Action & Automation
Single-player alternative to I Missed the Apocalypse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with I Missed the Apocalypse.
Fight directly as a Commander while your automated base keeps working. Gather physical Nuts, build modules and logistics routes, and master three asymmetric machine species in a 2D action-strategy battlefield.
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Cosmic Robots
Single-player alternative to I Missed the Apocalypse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with I Missed the Apocalypse.
Defend your planet from waves of robot invaders! Build powerful turrets, upgrade your defenses, and command robot units to fight drones, tanks, and massive bosses. Then send your own forces to attack the enemy planet in this action-packed sci-fi tower defense game.
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Freaking Meatbags
Single-player alternative to I Missed the Apocalypse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with I Missed the Apocalypse.
Land on a planet, pick up some rocks, leave before the solar system explodes. Oh, and don't die in the nightly robot attacks! Freaking Meatbags is a humorous real-time strategy game that's all about building a base, mixing meatbag DNA, then convincing those dolts to help you gather resources.
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Diseased
Single-player alternative to I Missed the Apocalypse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with I Missed the Apocalypse.
Build your camp in the freezing cold and make tough choices. Capture walls to widen borders and send your men to explore. Risk it all for vital resources, as surviving the relentless waves of the Diseased emerging from the dark will be harder than you think.
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Golemworks
Single-player alternative to I Missed the Apocalypse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with I Missed the Apocalypse.
A strategic fusion of automation game and tower defense
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Frostliner
Single-player alternative to I Missed the Apocalypse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with I Missed the Apocalypse.
The moon shattered. The world froze. Take command of a nomadic train city hurtling through a war-ravaged frozen wasteland. In this survival city builder on rails, gather survivors, scavenge resources, and do whatever it takes to keep the engine running and stay ahead of the frost.
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Resilient
Single-player alternative to I Missed the Apocalypse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with I Missed the Apocalypse.
Begin with a handful of survivors after a 17th-century zombie apocalypse and build a growing colony. Shape its organic layout, establish production chains, define ideologies, and pass laws. Thrive by day, defend by night, and test your colony’s resilience against the undead.
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Coneworks Scavenger Fleet Protocol
Single-player alternative to I Missed the Apocalypse — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with I Missed the Apocalypse.
Coneworks is an autonomous swarm simulation — part idle game, part engineering diorama, part emergent playground. You watch a lone robot wake up in a procedurally generated post-industrial wasteland, salvage debris, and haul it home. Then you give it friends. Hundreds. Thousands. A million.