Single-player games like Per Aspera
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Per Aspera, 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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Surviving Mars
Single-player alternative to Per Aspera — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Per Aspera.
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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Plan B: Terraform
Single-player alternative to Per Aspera — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Per Aspera.
Terraform a lifeless rock into a lush and habitable world. Build trucks, trains, and sprawling factories on an enormous hexagonal planet. Grow its population to millions. Enjoy a dynamic simulation of atmosphere, temperature, water, and forests.
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Endzone - A World Apart
Single-player alternative to Per Aspera — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Per Aspera.
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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Aven Colony
Single-player alternative to Per Aspera — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Per Aspera.
Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.
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Timberborn
Single-player alternative to Per Aspera — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Per Aspera.
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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Foundation
Single-player alternative to Per Aspera — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Per Aspera.
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 Per Aspera — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Per Aspera.
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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Planetbase
Single-player alternative to Per Aspera — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Per Aspera.
Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.
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Mindustry
Single-player alternative to Per Aspera — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Per Aspera.
An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.
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Terra Nil
Single-player alternative to Per Aspera — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Per Aspera.
Terra Nil is an intricate environmental strategy game about transforming a barren wasteland into a thriving, balanced ecosystem. Bring life back to a lifeless world by purifying soil, cleaning oceans, planting trees, and reintroducing wildlife, then leave without a trace.
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Synergy
Single-player alternative to Per Aspera — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Per Aspera.
An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.
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Wildmender
Single-player alternative to Per Aspera — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Per Aspera.
A desert gardening survival game. Start from a tiny spring and cultivate a blooming garden. Explore a vast world amid the sands and uncover its mysteries. Can you defend against the relentless forces of nature and mysterious wraith corruption, to bring life to a dying world?
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Imagine Earth
Single-player alternative to Per Aspera — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Per Aspera.
Build your own global colonies on distant worlds. Manage energy and resource supplies and produce goods for space trade. Form economic and diplomatic alliances or take over competing corporations. Conduct research to protect your colonists from disasters and avoid a climate crisis.
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Pioneers of Pagonia
Single-player alternative to Per Aspera — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Per Aspera.
Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.