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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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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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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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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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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Good Company
Single-player alternative to The Colonists — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Colonists.
Good Company is an in-depth management sim about building a trail-blazing tech corporation. Assemble complex production lines, manage employee logistics, and sell high-quality products on the market to become the best company in the whole county!
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Spacebase Startopia
Single-player alternative to The Colonists — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with The Colonists.
Spacebase Startopia captivates with its original mixture of economic simulation and empire building strategy paired with classic RTS skirmishes and a good dose of humor.
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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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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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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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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.