Single-player games like Risen Kingdom
Below are 20 single-player Steam games similar to Risen Kingdom, 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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Stronghold: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Risen Kingdom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Risen Kingdom.
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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Final Outpost: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Risen Kingdom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Risen Kingdom.
Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse. Assign roles, craft tools, and manage resources carefully. Construct buildings, level up your citizens, and fortify your town against hordes of zombies. How many days can you survive?
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Terminal squad: Swarmites
Single-player alternative to Risen Kingdom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Risen Kingdom.
Terminal squad: swarmites is a game with indirect control where you must erect a chain of buildings, which generate resources for construction or the combat units for destruction of an enemy.
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They Are Billions
Single-player alternative to Risen Kingdom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Risen Kingdom.
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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Stronghold HD (2012)
Single-player alternative to Risen Kingdom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Risen Kingdom.
The original castle sim, Stronghold HD allows you to design, build and destroy historical castles. Engage in medieval warfare against the AI in one of two single player campaigns or online with up to 8 players.
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Phoenix Hope
Single-player alternative to Risen Kingdom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Risen Kingdom.
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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Northgard: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Risen Kingdom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Risen Kingdom.
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 Risen Kingdom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Risen Kingdom.
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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Supreme Commander
Single-player alternative to Risen Kingdom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Risen Kingdom.
For a thousand years, three opposing forces have waged war for what they believe is true. There can be no room for compromise: their way is the only way. Dubbed The Infinite War, this devastating conflict has taken its toll on a once-peaceful galaxy and has only served to deepen the hatred between the factions.
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SC2VN - The eSports Visual Novel
Single-player alternative to Risen Kingdom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Risen Kingdom.
SC2VN is a visual novel about the South Korean StarCraft 2 scene. You play as Mach, a foreign semi-pro trying to make it in eSports who soon learns that success in StarCraft takes more than in-game strategy.
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ValeGuard
Single-player alternative to Risen Kingdom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Risen Kingdom.
ValeGuard is an RTS, Town-Management hybrid game that combines Turn-Based City-Building with Real-Time Combat. Each day you construct your defenses, train troops, and prepare for attack. When enemies come in the night, you defend with towers, troops, and heroes with powerful abilities.
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Thronefall
Single-player alternative to Risen Kingdom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Risen Kingdom.
A minimalist game about building and defending your little kingdom.
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Diabolic
Single-player alternative to Risen Kingdom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Risen Kingdom.
The game is set in a dark pixel fantasy world. Destroy hordes of monsters ruling over what once was a prosperous land. 10 levels filled with various enemies await, you, each requiring a different approach to defeat. Like in any RPG, leveling up is the core element of the game
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The Expedition
Single-player alternative to Risen Kingdom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Risen Kingdom.
The Expedition is a turn-based tactical game with an oppressive atmosphere of underground immersion.
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Sky Survivors
Single-player alternative to Risen Kingdom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Risen Kingdom.
Sky Survivors is an arena shooter roguelite. Choose from a variety of skills, unlock unique characters and weapons. Build «stairway to heaven» — a sky tower, each floor of which gives your character a unique bonus. Create your own overpowered build to survive against hordes of monsters!
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Block Tower TD
Single-player alternative to Risen Kingdom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Risen Kingdom.
Block Tower TD is a roguelike tower defense strategy game with interesting innovations. Build a world out of blocks, choose random upgrades to make every run unique.
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Tiny Battles
Single-player alternative to Risen Kingdom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Risen Kingdom.
Tiny Battles is a tactical action auto-battler where battles take place automatically in the arena.
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Milky Way TD SURVIVORS AUTOBATTLER RTS
Single-player alternative to Risen Kingdom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Risen Kingdom.
Milky Way is a unique mix of Tower Defense, RTS, Auto-Battler and Survivors. Build your base, choose random upgrades and use powerful skills to survive against hordes of enemies.
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Block Tower TD 2
Single-player alternative to Risen Kingdom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Risen Kingdom.
Block Tower TD 2 is a strategic game in the roguelike style with original innovations. Build worlds from blocks, choose random upgrades, each game will be unique.
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Cursor Survival
Single-player alternative to Risen Kingdom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Risen Kingdom.
Prepare for a radical shift in Bullet Hell gameplay! In Cursor Survival, you're not piloting a character - you embody the... CURSOR! Unleash a new, utterly insane way to evade, strike, and endure in a chaotic universe of projectiles and adversaries.