Single-player games like Terrahold
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Terrahold, 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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Colonization Simulator
Single-player alternative to Terrahold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Terrahold.
Colonize rich planets with vegetation or deserted moons. Build a functional and prosperous colony. Take care of your colonists. Experience adventures on distant worlds or build a colony on planets in our solar system.
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Exoplanet Outpost
Single-player alternative to Terrahold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Terrahold.
Establish a base on a distant planet. In this immersive sci-fi colony building sim, you'll balance economic growth, tourism, and defense against hostile alien forces. Your decisions shape the fate of your settlement and its inhabitants. Are you ready to thrive on the frontier of space?
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Cube Kingdoms
Single-player alternative to Terrahold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Terrahold.
Build a medieval settlement in a fantasy world, manage economy and defense, and fight battles against goblins, undead, demons, and epic boss monsters in auto‑battle style.
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Gold Gold Adventure Gold
Single-player alternative to Terrahold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Terrahold.
In this world, it’s all about the gold! Use it to build up a fantasy town, recruit heroes, give quests, raise a Godbeast, cast powerful spells, and expand your influence—all one gold coin at a time.
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Here Comes The Swarm
Single-player alternative to Terrahold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Terrahold.
Here Comes the Swarm is a survival RTS with a pause button! Create your strategy, build, manage, and defend your settlements at your own pace. Take the fight to the hive mind and lead expeditions to deliver a deadly blow and eradicate your foes. Will you reclaim Ulora from the relentless Swarm?
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Stronghold: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Terrahold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Terrahold.
Greetings sire! Your stronghold awaits you. Build a castle economy, besiege unforgettable villains and return to the 'castle sim' that started it all. Experience this classic RTS with upgraded visuals, modernised gameplay, Steam multiplayer and a new campaign.
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After Long Night
Single-player alternative to Terrahold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Terrahold.
After Long Night is a sandbox survival RTS. Build and fortify your base, scavenge every corner for vital resources, craft deadly weapons, and raise a militia to fight off relentless zombie hordes that strike every night. In this world, scavenging isn't just survival—it's strategy, power and war.
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Stronghold HD (2012)
Single-player alternative to Terrahold — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Terrahold.
The original castle sim, Stronghold HD allows you to design, build and destroy historical castles. Engage in medieval warfare against the AI in one of two single player campaigns or online with up to 8 players.
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Glass Monsters
Single-player alternative to Terrahold — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Glass Monsters is a single-player first-person 3D survival shooter where you fight off waves of monsters on beautiful and varied procedural glass arenas, using different weapons, destructible environments, and constant repositioning to survive.