Single-player games like Hinterland
Below are 20 single-player Steam games similar to Hinterland, 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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Dwarf Fortress
Single-player alternative to Hinterland — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Hinterland.
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
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King of the Dwarves: Underground City Builder
Single-player alternative to Hinterland — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Hinterland.
Build an epic kingdom inside a mountain in this underground city builder. Mine and build in a vast procedurally generated 3D world. Gather resources, research technology, train warriors and engineers, forge weapons, fight monsters and manage hundreds of units. Become the King of the Dwarves!
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A Game of Dwarves
Single-player alternative to Hinterland — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Hinterland.
A Dwarven Prince on a quest to reclaim his people’s stolen land will take you on a great journey. Explore a continent filled with buried treasures and unearth mysteries that have laid hidden since the Great War.
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Deity Empires
Single-player alternative to Hinterland — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Hinterland.
Deity Empires is a 4X, turn-based strategy game with a powerful “just one more turn” feel! Enter an intricate fantasy world as one of many deities posed to become ruler of the world.
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Alek - The Lost Kingdom
Single-player alternative to Hinterland — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Hinterland.
Alek, the young man who will change Zarabon's World forever. In this adventure, you must rebuild the world of Zarabon in your image. Build villages and manage your production lines with the help of your villagers.
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We Are The Dwarves
Single-player alternative to Hinterland — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Hinterland.
We Are The Dwarves is a real-time tactical adventure where you take control of three Dwarven astronauts and lead them through the hordes of enemies in the depths of their Universe. Tactical Adventure Sci-Fi Space Dwarves
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Dwarves: Glory, Death and Loot
Single-player alternative to Hinterland — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Hinterland.
Build and command your own party of Dwarves in this mix of RPGs, roguelike and auto battlers. Prepare formations, assign equipment, and decide the fate of up to 10 Beardlings, as you lead the raid through reckless runs filled with Glory, Death, and Loot!
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Dungeon Siege II
Single-player alternative to Hinterland — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Hinterland.
It’s been a generation since you vanquished the evil that plagued the Land of Ehb, and now…a new menace has awakened. In Dungeon Siege II, the sequel to the best-selling RPG from Gas Powered Games, you will be called on to again wield sword and spell to save the world from a growing abomination many years in the making.
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Depths of Peril
Single-player alternative to Hinterland — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Hinterland.
Depths of Peril is a single player action RPG (role-playing game) with strong strategy elements. You play as a faction leader protecting the barbarian city, Jorvik, by destroying threatening monsters and completing quests. At the same time, you compete with rival factions to see who will rule the city.
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Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Uprising
Single-player alternative to Hinterland — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Hinterland.
Red Alert 3: Uprising features four new mini-campaigns, giving players a deeper dive into the storyline's of the Soviets, the Allies, the Empire of the Rising Sun and a unique campaign centered on the origins of everyone’s favorite psionic Japanese schoolgirl commando, Yuriko Omega.
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SpellForce - Platinum Edition
Single-player alternative to Hinterland — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Hinterland.
Included in the Platinum Edition are three titles:SpellForce: The Order of DawnIn a world beyond imagination...In their immeasurable greed and constant thirst for power, the thirteen most powerful Mages of all time doomed the land, hurling it into an endless spiral of chaos and despair.
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SpellForce 3 Reforced
Single-player alternative to Hinterland — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Hinterland.
SpellForce 3 - The perfect blend between RTS and RPG!
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Battlezone Gold Edition
Single-player alternative to Hinterland — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Strap into the cockpit of the Cobra – the most powerful tank ever built – and experience first-person tank combat across neon-scarred sci-fi landscapes in an explosive campaign for 1-4 players – now playable with or without a VR device!
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Relic Guardian - Tower Defense
Single-player alternative to Hinterland — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Hinterland.
"Relic Guardian" is a fantasy style strategy tower defense game. As the builder on the battlefield, summon a variety of defense towers and spells with reliable hero companions to complete this epic and guarding adventure!
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Tiny Civilization
Single-player alternative to Hinterland — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Hinterland.
This is a historical simulation game that promotes the development of civilization based on the match-3 Game. You'll need to gather resources, use skills, discover new technology, and lead humanbeing through a 10,000-year journey to the cosmos.
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Diablo® IV
Single-player alternative to Hinterland — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Hinterland.
Join the fight for Sanctuary in Diablo® IV, the ultimate action RPG adventure. Experience the critically acclaimed campaign and new seasonal content.
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Caesar™ IV
Single-player alternative to Hinterland — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Hinterland.
Starting as governor of a newly formed province in the Roman Empire your goal is simple: advance up the empire's political ladder to become the next Caesar.
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Children of the Nile: Enhanced Edition
Single-player alternative to Hinterland — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Hinterland.
Children of the Nile™ is a unique gem of a city-building game, unparalleled in both grandeur and attention to detail.As Pharaoh you will guide your people through thousands of years of history: from simple hunter-gatherers to the creation of an immortal civilization.
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Children of the Nile: Alexandria
Single-player alternative to Hinterland — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Hinterland.
Children of the Nile: Alexandria is an addition to the base Children of the Nile game, adding a new mini-campaign focused on the rise of the city of Alexandria. Using the unique city-building dynamics of Children of the Nile, you will carve out a new dynasty to rule all of Egypt, and build the greatest city of the ancient world!
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Mosby's Confederacy
Single-player alternative to Hinterland — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Hinterland.
As John Singleton Mosby, one of the Civil War's most interesting and dynamic leaders, you are charged, not with leading vast armies into battle, but with commanding small bands of skirmishers, scouts, and guerilla fighters on opportunistic missions to scout, ambush, steal supplies, and harass a larger and better-armed force of Union soldi