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Single-player games like Desktop Farm

Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Desktop Farm, 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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    Desktop Farm Remastered — Steam game cover

    Desktop Farm Remastered

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

    A remastered version of our bestseller DESKTOP FARM working as a normal game, it's not 3D live wallpaper. Build your farm in voxel style and make money to expand.

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation2.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Desktop Mars — Steam game cover

    Desktop Mars

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

    Colonize Mars on your wallpaper. A relaxing and interactive game that takes place in the background. It's perfect if you want to change your boring wallpaper.

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation1.94 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
  3. 3
    Little Garden — Steam game cover

    Little Garden

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

    Collect your crops and process them to make various delicious foods to earn coins and make your customers happy in your new restaurant which is about to open. Design the restaurant of your dreams by getting new furniture, decorations, etc for the restaurant with your earned income.

    2023StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
  4. 4
    MuMu get to Work — Steam game cover

    MuMu get to Work

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

    This is a simulation management and home-building game where you can raise all sorts of slimes. These slimes will cultivate farmland, bake bread, and produce various unique goods. Plan your shops to sell goods to customers and earn plenty of coins. As your wealth accumulates, build your own town.

    StrategyIndieSimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Farming Isles — Steam game cover

    Farming Isles

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

    A relaxing farming simulator game that has the player focusing on resource management by maintaining growing crops, watering farmland, building additional structures for extending the stock.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation2.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Terrafarm — Steam game cover

    Terrafarm

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

    Robots emerge from the underground vault to cleanse the surface and restore nature. Replant and restore the wilds while growing food in order to support humans returning to the surface. A new culture of sustainable life and living in harmony with nature will be born.

    2027StrategySimulationCasualSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Elven City Simulator — Steam game cover

    Elven City Simulator

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

    Revive civilization and save it from mysterious darkness. Story-oriented colony simulator with elvish flavor and indirect control. Demo available!

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation10.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Blub Emporium — Steam game cover

    Blub Emporium

    Single-player alternative to Desktop Farm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Casual with Desktop Farm.

    Blub Emporium is an isometric management game where you gather resources from the wild, then build factories to produce things to sell to creatures known as Blubs in your shop. Collect tonnes of unique items, design and decorate your shop, and so much more!

    2021SimulationCasual16.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
  9. 9
    MY FOX - Desktop Wild Pet — Steam game cover

    MY FOX - Desktop Wild Pet

    Single-player alternative to Desktop Farm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Desktop Farm.

    A relaxing game displayed as wallpaper. Adopt a little fox with whom you will explore the new wild world.

    2021IndieAdventureSimulation2.59 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    DESKTOP MONKEY — Steam game cover

    DESKTOP MONKEY

    Single-player alternative to Desktop Farm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Desktop Farm.

    A challenging game where you fight for the best places on Steam Leaderboards. A funny little Monkey living on your screen will prepare you for everything.

    2022ActionCasual2.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →