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Single-player games like Bastide

Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Bastide, 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 Bastide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bastide.

    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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    Kingdoms Reborn — Steam game cover

    Kingdoms Reborn

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

    A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Founders' Fortune — Steam game cover

    Founders' Fortune

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

    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.

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation21.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    First Feudal — Steam game cover

    First Feudal

    Single-player alternative to Bastide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Bastide.

    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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    Life is Feudal: Forest Village — Steam game cover

    Life is Feudal: Forest Village

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

    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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    Grand Ages: Medieval — Steam game cover

    Grand Ages: Medieval

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

    Rise from the humble role of a simple mayor governing a small settlement and rule over all of Europe.

    2015StrategySimulation19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Tavern Master — Steam game cover

    Tavern Master

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

    Tavern Master is all about managing your medieval tavern. You start with a very small room, couple of benches and tables and build your way up to a huge successful tavern with a kitchen, rooms for guests, group of loyal staff and much more!

    2021StrategySimulation14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Crust — Steam game cover

    The Crust

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

    Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.

    2024StrategySimulationEarly Access19.49 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Banished — Steam game cover

    Banished

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

    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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    Ostriv — Steam game cover

    Ostriv

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

    Ostriv is a city-building game that puts you in a role of a governor of an 18th century Ukrainian town to challenge your creative skills and management abilities.

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation24.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Farthest Frontier — Steam game cover

    Farthest Frontier

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

    Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation34.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Manor Lords — Steam game cover

    Manor Lords

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

    Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.

    2024StrategySimulationEarly Access39.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →