Single-player games like Anno 1800
Below are 20 single-player Steam games similar to Anno 1800, 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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Anno 117: Pax Romana
Single-player alternative to Anno 1800 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 1800.
Shape the Roman Empire in this genre-defining strategic builder game. Build cities while expanding your influence through Roman provinces. Govern using your economic prowess, diplomatic skills, or military might.
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Anno 2070™
Single-player alternative to Anno 1800 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Anno 1800.
Build your society of the future, colonize islands, and create sprawling megacities with multitudes of buildings, vehicles, and resources to manage.
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Cities: Skylines
Single-player alternative to Anno 1800 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 1800.
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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Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition
Single-player alternative to Anno 1800 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Anno 1800.
Celebrating its first year of delighting millions of global players, the award-winning and best-selling strategy franchise continues with Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition, putting you at the center of even more epic historical battles that shaped the world.
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Tropico 6
Single-player alternative to Anno 1800 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 1800.
El Presidente is back! Prove yourself once again as a feared dictator or peace-loving statesman on the island state of Tropico and shape the fate of your very own banana republic through four distinctive eras.
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Farthest Frontier
Single-player alternative to Anno 1800 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 1800.
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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Banished
Single-player alternative to Anno 1800 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 1800.
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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Frostpunk
Single-player alternative to Anno 1800 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 1800.
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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Songs of Syx
Single-player alternative to Anno 1800 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 1800.
Songs of Syx is a fantasy city-builder with vast battles simulating thousands of citizens and soldiers. Start off as a small village and build, scheme, and fight your way towards a mighty empire. The mechanics are deep and true to life, where tiny events can spiral into the collapse of kingdoms.
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Victoria 3
Single-player alternative to Anno 1800 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 1800.
Paradox Development Studio invites you to build your ideal society in the tumult of the exciting and transformative 19th century. Balance the competing interests in your society and earn your place in the sun in Victoria 3, one of the most anticipated games in Paradox’s history.
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Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
Single-player alternative to Anno 1800 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 1800.
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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Dwarf Fortress
Single-player alternative to Anno 1800 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 1800.
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
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Foundation
Single-player alternative to Anno 1800 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 1800.
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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KAISERPUNK
Single-player alternative to Anno 1800 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 1800.
Build a city to rule the world in Kaiserpunk, a grand city builder blending production-focused city building with world conquest in an alternate 20th century world. Manage your city, grow industries, build a military, and defeat rivals to become the greatest empire.
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Stonehearth
Single-player alternative to Anno 1800 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 1800.
Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.
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Manor Lords
Single-player alternative to Anno 1800 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 1800.
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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Anno 1404 - History Edition
Single-player alternative to Anno 1800 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 1800.
Relive the captivating gameplay of a true city-building classic with Anno® 1404 History Edition.
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Anno 1602 History Edition
Single-player alternative to Anno 1800 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Anno 1800.
Relive the beginnings of the Anno® series with Anno® 1602 History Edition, updated and optimized for current computers.
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Anno 1701 History Edition
Single-player alternative to Anno 1800 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 1800.
Rediscover the classic gameplay of 1701 A.D. and its expansion The Sunken Dragon in Anno® 1701 History Edition.
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Anno 1503 History Edition
Single-player alternative to Anno 1800 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Anno 1800.
Experience the classic gameplay of 1503 A.D.: The New World, optimized for current computers with resolutions up to 4K.