Single-player games like Lost Cities
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Lost Cities, 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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Wyrmspan
Single-player alternative to Lost Cities — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost Cities.
Wyrmspan is an engine-building, card-driven strategy game for 1 to 5 players. Play as an amateur dracologist discovering a world of dragons. Excavate caves and explore your sanctuary. Entice dragons and chain their abilities to create powerful combos.
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Wingspan
Single-player alternative to Lost Cities — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost Cities.
Wingspan is a relaxing, award-winning strategy card game about birds for 1 to 5 players. Each bird you play extends a chain of powerful combinations in one of your three habitats. Your goal is to discover and attract the best birds to your network of wildlife preserves.
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Chai
Single-player alternative to Lost Cities — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Lost Cities.
Chai is the digital adaptation of the card game of the same name created by Dan and Connie Kazmaier developed by "Steeped Games". It can be played with 1-5 players.
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Everdell
Single-player alternative to Lost Cities — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost Cities.
Harvest resources to build a village of woodland critters in this adaptation of the award-winning tabletop board game!
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Root
Single-player alternative to Lost Cities — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost Cities.
Might makes right in the wild wood! The award-winning board game of asymmetrical woodland warfare comes to cross-platform digital play! Combine subtle strategy and bold daring to guide your forest faction to victory!
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Concordia: Digital Edition
Single-player alternative to Lost Cities — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost Cities.
Concordia is a strategic, Euro-style board game. 🏺 Players take the roles of powerful Roman merchants and follow the Roman expansion with their trade routes, franchises, and production houses. 🏛️
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Gaia Project
Single-player alternative to Lost Cities — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost Cities.
Gaia Project is the digital adaptation of the boardgame Gaia Project created by Helge Ostertag and Jens Drögemüller and published by "Feuerland Verlag". It is a 1-4 player strategy game. It plays in the same universe as Terra Mystica and continues the adventure in the far future.
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Carcassonne - Tiles & Tactics
Single-player alternative to Lost Cities — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Lost Cities.
The official adaptation of the famous board game Carcassonne! A modern classic tile-placement game based on the award winning game in which the players draw and place a tile with a piece of southern French landscape on it. The player can then decide to place one of his followers, called Meeples.
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Hive
Single-player alternative to Lost Cities — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost Cities.
Officially licensed version of the "Mensa Select" award-winning board game! Hive is a board game with a difference. There is no board! The pieces are added to the playing area thus creating the board.
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Khet 2.0
Single-player alternative to Lost Cities — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost Cities.
Officially licensed version of the “Mensa Select” award-winning board game! The Laser Game Khet 2.0: Mind blowing laser fun for players ages 9-99. Using simple rules that can be learned in minutes players alternate turns moving Egyptian themed mirrored pieces, after which they fire their laser with the goal of blasting their opponents...
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Othello
Single-player alternative to Lost Cities — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost Cities.
The classic abstract strategy game comes to Steam! Othello is an ageless game that takes a minute to learn and a lifetime to master. Place tiles surrounding your opponents tiles to flip them to your color. Get to the end with more tiles of your color and you are the winner!
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Simply Chess
Single-player alternative to Lost Cities — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost Cities.
The classic board game comes to Steam with asynchronous online play and 100 levels of AI. If you are a chess enthusiast or someone who just likes to play a game now and again, this is what you've been looking for. This is Simply Chess.
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Tatsu
Single-player alternative to Lost Cities — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lost Cities.
Japanese legend tells of a great battle between two mighty Dragon Lord armies, locked in combat on the peaks of Mount Hotaka, competing to win the hand of the Princess Kushinada, the last and most beautiful of eight sisters.