Single-player games like Cliff Empire
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Cliff Empire, 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 Cliff Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cliff Empire.
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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Foundation
Single-player alternative to Cliff Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cliff Empire.
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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Kingdoms and Castles
Single-player alternative to Cliff Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cliff Empire.
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
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Planetbase
Single-player alternative to Cliff Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cliff Empire.
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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Surviving Mars
Single-player alternative to Cliff Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Cliff Empire.
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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Ostriv
Single-player alternative to Cliff Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cliff Empire.
Ostriv is a city-building game that puts you in a role of a governor of an 18th century Ukrainian town to challenge your creative skills and management abilities.
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Anno 2205™
Single-player alternative to Cliff Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Cliff Empire.
In Anno 2205™, you join humankind‘s next step into the future with the promise to build a better tomorrow. You conquer Earth, establishing rich, bustling cities and grand industrial complexes, but to secure the prosperity of your people, you must travel into space.
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They Are Billions
Single-player alternative to Cliff Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Cliff Empire.
They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?
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Mad Max
Single-player alternative to Cliff Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Play as Mad Max, a reluctant hero and survivor who wants nothing more than to leave the madness behind and find solace.
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Frostpunk
Single-player alternative to Cliff Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Cliff Empire.
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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Мухосранск | Russian City Sim
Single-player alternative to Cliff Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cliff Empire.
The atmosphere of the nuclear wasteland.
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NieR:Automata™
Single-player alternative to Cliff Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
NieR: Automata tells the story of androids 2B, 9S and A2 and their battle to reclaim the machine-driven dystopia overrun by powerful machines.
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Manor Lords
Single-player alternative to Cliff Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Cliff Empire.
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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Cities: Skylines
Single-player alternative to Cliff Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Cliff Empire.
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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AI Olympius
Single-player alternative to Cliff Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Cliff Empire.
Join the rebels in a third-person shooter with RPG elements and base-building mode. Fight against various combat drone models under the control of the supreme AI.