Single-player games like Craftlings
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Craftlings, 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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Pioneers of Pagonia
Single-player alternative to Craftlings — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Craftlings.
Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.
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Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure
Single-player alternative to Craftlings — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Craftlings.
Oddsparks is a blend of automation and real-time strategy for both the die-hard fans of the automation genre and the automation-curious. Explore a strange fantasy world, uncover the mysteries of the past, automate your workshops, and go on adventures with your odd & adorable Sparks!
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Microtopia
Single-player alternative to Craftlings — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Craftlings.
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!
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Flotsam
Single-player alternative to Craftlings — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Craftlings.
Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.
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The Wandering Village
Single-player alternative to Craftlings — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Craftlings.
The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?
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RAILGRADE
Single-player alternative to Craftlings — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Craftlings.
RAILGRADE is the train RTS game! Construct dense vertical railroads, build cities, construct vast factory chains with train automation! Restore an off world colony's economy all in the intense story driven campaign or relaxing sandbox mode!
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Mini Settlers
Single-player alternative to Craftlings — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Craftlings.
Mini Settlers is a minimalistic city builder! Settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.
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Tribe: Primitive Builder
Single-player alternative to Craftlings — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Chill out as you explore the beautiful, realistic island of exiles. Gather resources, craft tools, construct buildings and settlements. Manage tribe and automate your gameplay. Discover 4 lands, a storyline and save the inhabitants of the island.
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Terraria
Single-player alternative to Craftlings — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Craftlings.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
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Banished
Single-player alternative to Craftlings — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Craftlings.
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
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Pharaoh™: A New Era
Single-player alternative to Craftlings — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Craftlings.
The legendary city-builder returns! Lead the creation of one of the greatest civilizations the world has ever seen in this HD remake with modernized UI. Build monuments, manage your population and explore 4,000 years of history through over a hundred hours of gameplay.
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The Settlers: New Allies
Single-player alternative to Craftlings — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Craftlings.
The Settlers®: New Allies is a strategy game with an in-depth build-up experience and real-time strategic battles.