Single-player games like Common'hood
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Common'hood, 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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JUNKPUNK
Single-player alternative to Common'hood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Common'hood.
JUNKPUNK is a factory management, base building, exploration game where a New World Robotics ship has crash landed. You and any survivors must restore this ruined planet and prepare it for habitable life. Craft, build, explore, discover, and grow to terraform the planet.
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ALL WILL FALL
Single-player alternative to Common'hood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Common'hood.
Build massive ocean cities and lead your people to prosperity in this post-apocalyptic survival colony sim. Featuring a physics-based 3D construction system, complex resource management, exploration, difficult political decisions, supply chains, and a robust sandbox mode.
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Timberborn
Single-player alternative to Common'hood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Common'hood.
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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Factorio
Single-player alternative to Common'hood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Common'hood.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
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Going Medieval
Single-player alternative to Common'hood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Common'hood.
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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Frostpunk
Single-player alternative to Common'hood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Common'hood.
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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Occupy Mars: The Game
Single-player alternative to Common'hood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Common'hood.
Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.
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Endzone - A World Apart
Single-player alternative to Common'hood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Common'hood.
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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Block'hood
Single-player alternative to Common'hood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Common'hood.
Block’hood is a neighborhood-building simulator that celebrates the diversity and experimentation of cities and the unique ecosystems within them. Budding city planners will have access to 200+ building blocks to combine and to create unique neighborhoods and discover the implications of their designs.