Single-player games like Ostriv
Below are 18 single-player Steam games similar to Ostriv, 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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Foundation
Single-player alternative to Ostriv — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ostriv.
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
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Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
Single-player alternative to Ostriv — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ostriv.
Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.
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Banished
Single-player alternative to Ostriv — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ostriv.
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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Farthest Frontier
Single-player alternative to Ostriv — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ostriv.
Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.
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Manor Lords
Single-player alternative to Ostriv — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ostriv.
Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.
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Timberborn
Single-player alternative to Ostriv — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ostriv.
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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Kingdoms Reborn
Single-player alternative to Ostriv — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ostriv.
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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Sapiens
Single-player alternative to Ostriv — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ostriv.
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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Going Medieval
Single-player alternative to Ostriv — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ostriv.
Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.
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Founders' Fortune
Single-player alternative to Ostriv — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ostriv.
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
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Fabledom
Single-player alternative to Ostriv — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ostriv.
Set in a wholesome fairytale world, Fabledom is a laid-back City builder. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, interact with your neighbors and defend your kingdom from magical creatures. All to find true love and live happily ever after!
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Cities: Skylines
Single-player alternative to Ostriv — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ostriv.
Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.
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Surviving Mars
Single-player alternative to Ostriv — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ostriv.
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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Cities: Skylines II
Single-player alternative to Ostriv — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Ostriv.
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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Settlement Survival
Single-player alternative to Ostriv — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ostriv.
In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.
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Bastide
Single-player alternative to Ostriv — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ostriv.
Build. Survive. Thrive. Bastide is a 13th-century city-building strategy game where you transform a vulnerable peasant village into a fortified town. Manage your workforce and protect your people from the constant threats of starvation, disease, winter, and bandits.
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Tile Cities
Single-player alternative to Ostriv — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Ostriv.
Tile Cities turns city-building experience into a simple relaxing puzzle game and does so with style
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Tile Cities 2
Single-player alternative to Ostriv — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ostriv.
City-building experience reimagined as a simple relaxing puzzle game bringing the original Tile Cities to a new level