Single-player games like Making it Home
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Making it Home, 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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Autonauts
Single-player alternative to Making it Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Making it Home.
In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.
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Desynced
Single-player alternative to Making it Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Making it Home.
Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.
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Hydroneer
Single-player alternative to Making it Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Making it Home.
Hydroneer is a mining and base building sandbox. Dig for gold and other resources to turn a profit and enhance your mining operation. Build a base of operations, forge weapons, go fishing, and dig deep!
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Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to Making it Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Making it Home.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
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FortressCraft Evolved!
Single-player alternative to Making it Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Making it Home.
FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.
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Factorio
Single-player alternative to Making it Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Making it Home.
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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Stormworks: Build and Rescue
Single-player alternative to Making it Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Making it Home.
Join a world where you design, create and pilot your own air sea rescue service. Release your inner hero as you battle fierce storms out at sea to rescue those in need.
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Bone's Cafe
Single-player alternative to Making it Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Making it Home.
Bone's Cafe is a fast paced, 1-4 Players couch co-op, cooking game. Customize the layout of your kitchen to guarantee your success. Specialize your menu in ingredients and recipes to design your ultimate cafe. Put your necromancy skills to the test and raise your own undead kitchen staff.
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Intelligent Design: An Evolutionary Sandbox
Single-player alternative to Making it Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Making it Home.
A toy ecosystem with fully simulated genetics and evolution. Will you tinker with DNA or sit back, relax, and see if life finds a way?
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Cycle 28
Single-player alternative to Making it Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Cycle 28 is an intense momentum-based space shooter driven by a cinematic orchestral soundtrack. A game where the physics, the music, and the fight to survive combine to pull you into a place where nothing else exists... just you, your ship, and the need to do better.
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Captain Contraption's Chocolate Factory
Single-player alternative to Making it Home — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Making it Home.
A contraption building game. Design and build your own machines to combine ingredients to make chocolates. Automate production using simple components to create ingenious contraptions, which are as satisfying to watch as they are to optimise.