Single-player games like Shadows of Forbidden Gods
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Shadows of Forbidden Gods, 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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Extinction Day
Single-player alternative to Shadows of Forbidden Gods — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shadows of Forbidden Gods.
End humanity using disasters, plagues, and war. Spread chaos worldwide, combine catastrophic events, and stop them before they escape to the Ark.
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Shadows Behind the Throne 2
Single-player alternative to Shadows of Forbidden Gods — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shadows of Forbidden Gods.
An apocalyptic grand strategy game, in which you take the role of the forces of darkness, trying to bring an end to a fantasy world. Complete with complex internal politics by NPC factions and wide ranges of strategies and types of doom to choose between.
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Demockracy
Single-player alternative to Shadows of Forbidden Gods — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shadows of Forbidden Gods.
Build a political party in a fictional country and play for one thing: win power and keep it. Recruit politicians, conquer regions, win elections. There are clean paths and dirty games. Everyone has a price. What's yours?
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Ardarium
Single-player alternative to Shadows of Forbidden Gods — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shadows of Forbidden Gods.
Watch a simulated 2D world including weather, plants, animals, and humans in this casual sandbox game about nature and life. Start meteor showers, spawn new animals, or just let things play out naturally. It's like a screensaver you can play.
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Ukraine Defender
Single-player alternative to Shadows of Forbidden Gods — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shadows of Forbidden Gods.
Get ready to defend Ukraine in the intense, action-packed Combat Flight Simulator 2022! Take control of a fighter jet and engage in a race against the clock(500s) to defeat the invading Russian Z forces.Can you save Ukraine before it's too late? Get ready to find out in Combat Flight Simulator 2022!
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Cults of the Endtimes
Single-player alternative to Shadows of Forbidden Gods — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shadows of Forbidden Gods.
The world is in agony. The only salvation is faith. Forge a god from the fears and hopes of a dying humanity. Spread your ideas like a virus, mutate dogmas, and battle other egregores for the last souls on Earth. A strategy game about manipulating consciousness without direct control.
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Nikhil Murthy's Syphilisation
Single-player alternative to Shadows of Forbidden Gods — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shadows of Forbidden Gods.
Nikhil Murthy's Syphilisation is a postcolonial 4X game where you play a student doing a group report on Gandhi, Churchill and the Raj. It eXplores space left uncharted by the genre and proposes alternatives to established systems.
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Just Power: The Papal States
Single-player alternative to Shadows of Forbidden Gods — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shadows of Forbidden Gods.
Are you ready to found a dynasty which controls the Holy See over the centuries? Climb the hierarchies, hire your relatives, blackmail and bribe to get everything you want in this turn-based political simulator.
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Crusader Kings II
Single-player alternative to Shadows of Forbidden Gods — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shadows of Forbidden Gods.
Explore one of the defining periods in world history in an experience crafted by the masters of Grand Strategy.
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Plague Inc: Evolved
Single-player alternative to Shadows of Forbidden Gods — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shadows of Forbidden Gods.
Plague Inc: Evolved is a unique mix of high strategy and terrifyingly realistic simulation. Your pathogen has just infected 'Patient Zero' - now you must bring about the end of human history by evolving a deadly, global Plague whilst adapting against everything humanity can do to defend itself.
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Dwarf Fortress
Single-player alternative to Shadows of Forbidden Gods — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shadows of Forbidden Gods.
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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Dominion
Single-player alternative to Shadows of Forbidden Gods — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Shadows of Forbidden Gods.
Expand a small kingdom to a mighty Dominion! Play the Spiel des Jahres winning boardgame beloved by millions around the world. Discover the game that defined a genre, Dominion was first to popularize deck-building and remains a staple of tabletop. This is the officially licensed implementation.