Single-player games like Catizens
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Catizens, 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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Havendock
Single-player alternative to Catizens — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Catizens.
Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.
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Founders' Fortune
Single-player alternative to Catizens — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Catizens.
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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Dwarf Fortress
Single-player alternative to Catizens — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Catizens.
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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Timberborn
Single-player alternative to Catizens — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Catizens.
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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Sapiens
Single-player alternative to Catizens — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Catizens.
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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Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
Single-player alternative to Catizens — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Catizens.
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
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Settlement Survival
Single-player alternative to Catizens — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Catizens.
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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RimWorld
Single-player alternative to Catizens — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Catizens.
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
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The Sims™ 4
Single-player alternative to Catizens — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Casual with Catizens.
Play with life and discover the possibilities. Unleash your imagination and create a world of Sims that’s wholly unique. Explore and customize every detail from Sims to homes–and much more.
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The Sims™ Legacy Collection
Single-player alternative to Catizens — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Casual with Catizens.
The original game you know and love. For Windows 10/11. Create a neighborhood of Sims and guide their lives through careers and romance. Or create chaos with open-ended gameplay that lets you shape their destinies.