Single-player games like The Colonists
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to The Colonists, 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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Factory Town
Single-player alternative to The Colonists — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Colonists.
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
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Autonauts
Single-player alternative to The Colonists — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Colonists.
In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.
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Colony Survival
Single-player alternative to The Colonists — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Colonists.
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
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Sapiens
Single-player alternative to The Colonists — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Colonists.
Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.
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Kingdoms Reborn
Single-player alternative to The Colonists — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Colonists.
A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.
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Per Aspera
Single-player alternative to The Colonists — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Colonists.
Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.
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Timberborn
Single-player alternative to The Colonists — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Colonists.
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
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Astro Colony
Single-player alternative to The Colonists — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Colonists.
Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.
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RimWorld
Single-player alternative to The Colonists — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Colonists.
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.
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Sky Settlers
Single-player alternative to The Colonists — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Colonists.
Sky Settlers is a minimalistic city building card game in which you build on islands in the sky and encounter different events, disasters and much more. Use different cards, complete quests and unlock new tiles as you progress.
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The Settlers: New Allies
Single-player alternative to The Colonists — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with The Colonists.
The Settlers®: New Allies is a strategy game with an in-depth build-up experience and real-time strategic battles.