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Single-player games like Founders' Fortune

Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Founders' Fortune, 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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    Foundation — Steam game cover

    Foundation

    Single-player alternative to Founders' Fortune — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Founders' Fortune.

    Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation34.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation — Steam game cover

    Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation

    Single-player alternative to Founders' Fortune — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Founders' Fortune.

    Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Endzone - A World Apart — Steam game cover

    Endzone - A World Apart

    Single-player alternative to Founders' Fortune — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Founders' Fortune.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation24.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Settlement Survival — Steam game cover

    Settlement Survival

    Single-player alternative to Founders' Fortune — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Founders' Fortune.

    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.

    2022StrategySimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    First Feudal — Steam game cover

    First Feudal

    Single-player alternative to Founders' Fortune — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Founders' Fortune.

    Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.

    2021ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Banished — Steam game cover

    Banished

    Single-player alternative to Founders' Fortune — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Founders' Fortune.

    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.

    2014StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Factory Town — Steam game cover

    Factory Town

    Single-player alternative to Founders' Fortune — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Founders' Fortune.

    Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Life is Feudal: Forest Village — Steam game cover

    Life is Feudal: Forest Village

    Single-player alternative to Founders' Fortune — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Founders' Fortune.

    LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.

    2017StrategyIndieSimulation24.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    RimWorld — Steam game cover

    RimWorld

    Single-player alternative to Founders' Fortune — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Founders' Fortune.

    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.

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation34.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Factorio — Steam game cover

    Factorio

    Single-player alternative to Founders' Fortune — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Founders' Fortune.

    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.

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation35.00 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Sims™ 4 — Steam game cover

    The Sims™ 4

    Single-player alternative to Founders' Fortune — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Founders' Fortune.

    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.

    2020AdventureSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Sims™ Legacy Collection — Steam game cover

    The Sims™ Legacy Collection

    Single-player alternative to Founders' Fortune — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Founders' Fortune.

    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.

    2025SimulationCasual11.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    InfraSpace — Steam game cover

    InfraSpace

    Single-player alternative to Founders' Fortune — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Founders' Fortune.

    Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.

    2023StrategyIndieSimulation24.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →