Single-player games like Ostriv
Below are 15 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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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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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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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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Land of the Vikings
Single-player alternative to Ostriv — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Ostriv.
Land of the Vikings is a survival colony sim game. Build and lead your village, and expand it into a thriving city. A wise Jarl must manage resources, survive harsh conditions, and guide their fellow Vikings to work together through social conflict. Skál!
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Endzone - A World Apart
Single-player alternative to Ostriv — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ostriv.
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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Captain of Industry
Single-player alternative to Ostriv — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ostriv.
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
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Patron
Single-player alternative to Ostriv — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ostriv.
Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.
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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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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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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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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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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