Single-player games like Blub Emporium
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Blub Emporium, 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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CritterGarden
Single-player alternative to Blub Emporium — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Casual with Blub Emporium.
You are an astrobiologist stranded on a lifeless planet. Breathe new life into this mysterious world by gathering plants, animals, and research upgrades to help it grow back to its full potential. Collect, breed, and evolve over 90 cute and quirky Critters to help you on your journey back home!
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CRUFT
Single-player alternative to Blub Emporium — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Casual with Blub Emporium.
A cozy crafter with tons of things to create, sell, or just have fun making. Every recipe always makes a bit of CRUFT too, so you should probably clean up after yourself!
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Autonauts
Single-player alternative to Blub Emporium — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Casual with Blub Emporium.
In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.
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Plantera 2: Golden Acorn
Single-player alternative to Blub Emporium — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Casual with Blub Emporium.
The round blue Mellows return to tend to the Garden once more. Grow plants, bushes, trees, animals, water features and the great magical oak tree that has been rumored to have placed its seed there. Tend to the oak tree and grow it to the sky to harvest its Golden Acorns.
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Assembly Planter
Single-player alternative to Blub Emporium — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Blub Emporium.
A farming / automation game, that allows you to progress from a poor hard-working farmer with just a few old tools to a lazy rich guy that watches his machines do the work for him while he tries to optimize production.
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Farm Manager 2018
Single-player alternative to Blub Emporium — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Blub Emporium.
Manage your own farm in the game Farm Manager 2018! To expand your farm business, produce cheap and sell your products in high prices. Control the process of land cultivation, employ the best staff, buy the most appropriate farm equipment, raise livestock and process the harvested crops.
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Autonauts vs Piratebots
Single-player alternative to Blub Emporium — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Casual with Blub Emporium.
Create, automate and defend an impenetrable base. Assemble and command a Bot army to combat an entire Piratebot invasion. Build, program and battle your way through five different zones.
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MR FARMBOY
Single-player alternative to Blub Emporium — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Casual with Blub Emporium.
MR FARMBOY is a colony farming game with automation. Build your dream farm, grow crops, raise animals, attract villagers, and hire workers to automate everything.
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Factorio
Single-player alternative to Blub Emporium — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Casual with Blub Emporium.
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.
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Encrafted
Single-player alternative to Blub Emporium — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Blub Emporium.
Encrafted perfectly blends crafting with the mechanics of a rogue-like deck-builder game. Combine materials to sell and clear rounds, leveraging various Artefacts to cause jaw-dropping combos.