Single-player games like Surviving the Aftermath
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Surviving the Aftermath, 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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Endzone - A World Apart
Single-player alternative to Surviving the Aftermath — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving the Aftermath.
Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.
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Surviving Mars
Single-player alternative to Surviving the Aftermath — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving the Aftermath.
There will be challenges to overcome. Execute your strategy and improve your colony’s chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world. Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.
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Frostpunk
Single-player alternative to Surviving the Aftermath — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving the Aftermath.
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?
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Northgard: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Surviving the Aftermath — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving the Aftermath.
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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Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
Single-player alternative to Surviving the Aftermath — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving the Aftermath.
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
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RimWorld
Single-player alternative to Surviving the Aftermath — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving the Aftermath.
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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Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville
Single-player alternative to Surviving the Aftermath — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving the Aftermath.
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.
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Against the Storm
Single-player alternative to Surviving the Aftermath — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving the Aftermath.
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.
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Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)
Single-player alternative to Surviving the Aftermath — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving the Aftermath.
The highly anticipated sequel to the best-selling Stronghold, Stronghold Crusader HD throws you into historic battles and castle sieges from the Crusades with fiendish AI opponents, new units, 4 historical campaigns and over 100 unique skirmish missions.
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Banished
Single-player alternative to Surviving the Aftermath — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving the Aftermath.
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
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Endzone 2
Single-player alternative to Surviving the Aftermath — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving the Aftermath.
Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.
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Cities: Skylines II
Single-player alternative to Surviving the Aftermath — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Surviving the Aftermath.
Raise a city from the ground up and transform it into a thriving metropolis with the most realistic city builder ever. Push your creativity and problem-solving to build on a scale you've never experienced. With deep simulation and a living economy, this is world-building without limits.
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Ice Lakes
Single-player alternative to Surviving the Aftermath — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Surviving the Aftermath.
Ice Lakes is a modern ice fishing simulator with different single and multiplayer game modes and sandbox approach to wintertime fishing. Use and customize wide selection of fishing gear and learn how changing season, bottom topology, time of day and weather conditions affects fish behavior.
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Race Arcade
Single-player alternative to Surviving the Aftermath — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The ultimate top down racing game with over 100 tracks, online and local multiplayer, extensive single player and a track editor to create and share your own tracks with the others.
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Premium Pool Arena
Single-player alternative to Surviving the Aftermath — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Premium Pool Arena is a modern arcade style pool game with single player, online and local multiplayer modes. If you love a relaxed game of 8 ball, this is the game for you!