Single-player games like Mind Over Magic
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Mind Over Magic, 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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Jurassic Clans
Single-player alternative to Mind Over Magic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Mind Over Magic.
Jurassic Clans sets in a world where dinosaurs co-exist with humans. Ensure your people thrive in this dangerous world by surviving and evolving your tribe. Search for resources to expand your village, research technologies, defend your people from predators and prepare for the upcoming apocalypse.
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TFM: The First Men
Single-player alternative to Mind Over Magic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Mind Over Magic.
An open-world colony sim based on stories of the first men. Infinite possibilities await your very own Adam and Eve as they embark on a generation-spanning adventure. How will you shape their future?
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Spellcaster University
Single-player alternative to Mind Over Magic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Mind Over Magic.
Develop a prestigious university of mages. Build rooms, train your students, fight orcs, slay the bureaucrats, manage your budget... a director's life is not a quiet one.
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Outland Kingdoms
Single-player alternative to Mind Over Magic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Mind Over Magic.
Colony building RPG with detailed characters, driven by procedurally generated Stories. Build a hut, a village, a town, a city, a kingdom. 5 different races. Ally with unique factions. Rule an Undead empire. Craft Legendary items. Tame creatures. Enslave enemies. It's all here.
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Sheltered 2
Single-player alternative to Mind Over Magic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Mind Over Magic.
A brutal survival management simulator set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Keep your faction of survivors alive, maintain your shelter and scavenge the ravaged world for resources. Befriend and trade with the factions you meet or conquer them by force.
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Oxygen Not Included
Single-player alternative to Mind Over Magic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Mind Over Magic.
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
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Common'hood
Single-player alternative to Mind Over Magic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Mind Over Magic.
Common’hood is a community building and economy management game with highly customizable base building tools. Scavenge for materials, grow your own food, research new technology, craft new tools, build a home, make friends. Form your community and take it from surviving to thriving!
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Beneath the Mountain
Single-player alternative to Mind Over Magic — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
In Beneath the Mountain, you play as the King of a new Dwarven civilization seeking to find their fortune beneath the mountain. You dig your way through the mountain, encountering many dangerous foes along the way, all while defending your kingdom from periodic Orc invasions.
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Majesty 2
Single-player alternative to Mind Over Magic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Mind Over Magic.
In the world of Majesty, you are the ruler of the kingdom Ardania. At your service are your loyal and somewhat obnoxious subordinates, who have their own minds about how things should be done. In fact, Majesty is the only game where your heroes decide on their own what should be done and when, leaving you to try to control them through...
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RimWorld
Single-player alternative to Mind Over Magic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Mind Over Magic.
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.
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鬼王~Oni
Single-player alternative to Mind Over Magic — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
本作为第三人称动作冒险,战斗为即时制,操作主角伊吹萃香通过近战和远程与敌人战斗,通过击败敌人,还能获得点数,提升自己的实力。按Tab键打开提示菜单。
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ONI : Road to be the Mightiest Oni
Single-player alternative to Mind Over Magic — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Break your enemies' souls to reclaim your pride. On Kisejima, demon warrior Kuuta and his partner Kazemaru challenge these souls to a trial. All in order to defeat Momotaro, who is both human and evil monster… A tale of sky and wind as they embark upon an island quest.