Single-player games like Night is Coming
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Night is Coming, 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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Towers & Goblins: The Last Stand
Single-player alternative to Night is Coming — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Night is Coming.
Build towers, manage resources, and lead units to defend your kingdom against goblins. Every decision you make determines your kingdom's fate.
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Clanfolk
Single-player alternative to Night is Coming — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Night is Coming.
Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.
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They Are Billions
Single-player alternative to Night is Coming — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Night is Coming.
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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Northgard: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Night is Coming — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Night is Coming.
Northgard: Definitive Edition is a critically acclaimed real-time strategy game based on Norse mythology. Lead your clan, uncover the secrets of a mysterious newfound continent and defeat your enemies to conquer the Throne!
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Pioneers of Pagonia
Single-player alternative to Night is Coming — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Night is Coming.
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.
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Stronghold: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Night is Coming — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Night is Coming.
Greetings sire! Your stronghold awaits you. Build a castle economy, besiege unforgettable villains and return to the 'castle sim' that started it all. Experience this classic RTS with upgraded visuals, modernised gameplay, Steam multiplayer and a new campaign.
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Kingdom Two Crowns
Single-player alternative to Night is Coming — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Night is Coming.
Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.
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Phoenix Hope
Single-player alternative to Night is Coming — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Night is Coming.
Phoenix Hope is a pixel art 2D real-time, side-view strategy game in which you must develop your colony during the day and repel waves of monsters at night.
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Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)
Single-player alternative to Night is Coming — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Night is Coming.
The highly anticipated sequel to the best-selling Stronghold, Stronghold Crusader HD throws you into historic battles and castle sieges from the Crusades with fiendish AI opponents, new units, 4 historical campaigns and over 100 unique skirmish missions.
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RimWorld
Single-player alternative to Night is Coming — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Night is Coming.
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.