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Single-player games like They Are Billions

Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to They Are Billions, 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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    Frostpunk — Steam game cover

    Frostpunk

    Single-player alternative to They Are Billions — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with They Are Billions.

    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?

    2018StrategySimulation29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Final Outpost: Definitive Edition — Steam game cover

    Final Outpost: Definitive Edition

    Single-player alternative to They Are Billions — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with They Are Billions.

    Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse. Assign roles, craft tools, and manage resources carefully. Construct buildings, level up your citizens, and fortify your town against hordes of zombies. How many days can you survive?

    2025StrategySimulation9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Against the Storm — Steam game cover

    Against the Storm

    Single-player alternative to They Are Billions — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with They Are Billions.

    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.

    2023StrategySimulation29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation — Steam game cover

    Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation

    Single-player alternative to They Are Billions — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with They Are Billions.

    Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    From Glory To Goo — Steam game cover

    From Glory To Goo

    Single-player alternative to They Are Billions — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with They Are Billions.

    From Glory To Goo is a Sci-Fi survival RTS set on an alien world. Serve as humanity's bulwark by establishing a colony and supporting your colonists still in orbit. But beware, for The Goo, a relentless and shape-shifting force approaches from all sides, even above and below.

    2024StrategySimulationEarly Access8.39 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Zombie Cure Lab — Steam game cover

    Zombie Cure Lab

    Single-player alternative to They Are Billions — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with They Are Billions.

    In a world overrun by the undead, build a lab to fight back with science. Manage survivors, gather vital resources, and turn zombies into allies. Defend your base and research the cure to reclaim humanity.

    2025StrategySimulation8.49 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Freaking Meatbags — Steam game cover

    Freaking Meatbags

    Single-player alternative to They Are Billions — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with They Are Billions.

    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.

    2015ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Infection Free Zone — Steam game cover

    Infection Free Zone

    Single-player alternative to They Are Billions — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with They Are Billions.

    Choose any real region from the world. Choose your base of operations, then rebuild and readapt the buildings around you to create a self-sustaining settlement. Take charge of a group of survivors from your city. And when the night falls - Defend the zone from the infected!

    2024ActionStrategyIndie24.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Age of Darkness: Final Stand — Steam game cover

    Age of Darkness: Final Stand

    Single-player alternative to They Are Billions — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with They Are Billions.

    Age of Darkness: Final Stand is a dark fantasy survival RTS where you must illuminate, build and defend humanity’s last bastion against hordes of Nightmares. Set in the remnants of a kingdom consumed by a deadly fog, you decide. Will you hide in the light? Or take back your world.

    2025Strategy27.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    SC2VN - The eSports Visual Novel — Steam game cover

    SC2VN - The eSports Visual Novel

    Single-player alternative to They Are Billions — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    SC2VN is a visual novel about the South Korean StarCraft 2 scene. You play as Mach, a foreign semi-pro trying to make it in eSports who soon learns that success in StarCraft takes more than in-game strategy.

    2015IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    RimWorld — Steam game cover

    RimWorld

    Single-player alternative to They Are Billions — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with They Are Billions.

    A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation34.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Project Zomboid — Steam game cover

    Project Zomboid

    Single-player alternative to They Are Billions — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..

    2013IndieSimulationRPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville — Steam game cover

    Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville

    Single-player alternative to They Are Billions — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with They Are Billions.

    Rebuild a ruined city in this post-apocalyptic mix of strategy and simulation. Manage survivors, scavenge for food and supplies, deal with rival gangs, illness, interpersonal strife and zombie attacks.

    2015StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Cataclismo — Steam game cover

    Cataclismo

    Single-player alternative to They Are Billions — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with They Are Billions.

    Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.

    2025StrategySimulation29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Lords of Xulima — Steam game cover

    Lords of Xulima

    Single-player alternative to They Are Billions — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    Lords of Xulima is a challenging Role-playing game set on the mythical continent of Xulima, where Gods and humans once walked side by side. Experience a genuine RPG featuring over 100 hours of gameplay, and discover one of the most epic sagas ever told.

    2014RPG19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →