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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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.
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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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Northgard: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to The Colonists — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Colonists.
Northgard: Definitive Edition is a critically acclaimed real-time strategy game based on Norse mythology. Lead your clan, uncover the secrets of a mysterious newfound continent and defeat your enemies to conquer the Throne!
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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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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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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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Offworld Trading Company
Single-player alternative to The Colonists — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Colonists.
Mars has been colonized, and Earth's corporate titans fight to dominate this new market. Competition is fierce in this fast-paced economic RTS from Civilization IV Lead Designer, Soren Johnson.
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Stronghold: Warlords
Single-player alternative to The Colonists — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with The Colonists.
Besiege Great Khans, Imperial warlords and Shōgun commanders in Stronghold: Warlords, the latest 'castle sim' from Firefly Studios. Command AI warlords across the battlefield as you build a castle economy and new gunpowder-fuelled siege engines!
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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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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.