Single-player games like Craftlings
Below are 14 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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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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Rail Route
Single-player alternative to Craftlings — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Craftlings.
In Rail Route, you will design, construct, upgrade, and automate your railway network in one of the many maps based on real-life cities worldwide. Dispatch the trains to make the traffic flow and the network grow!
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Cog Foo
Single-player alternative to Craftlings — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Craftlings.
A battle-laden automation game where you have to manufacture everything from battle units down to every bullet! Engage in battles to gather survivors. Manage and feed your people. Mine, farm and Optimize production lines. Can you lead your people to victory?
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Factory Town 2: Paradise
Single-player alternative to Craftlings — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Craftlings.
A combination Town Builder + Factory Sim where you build a tropical island village, produce tons of goods, automate everything, and feed a giant sentient volcano in exchange for super powers!
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Steel Artery: Train City Builder
Single-player alternative to Craftlings — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Craftlings.
Build a living city on rails in this steampunk fantasy train-city builder. Manage multiracial colonies with thousands of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, manage the economy, and create logistics as you explore distant regions to ensure the prosperity of your Empire.
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Factory Town
Single-player alternative to Craftlings — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Craftlings.
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
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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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STARIO: Haven Tower
Single-player alternative to Craftlings — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Craftlings.
A vertical kingdom in the sky! Plan your ascent from the harsh Sand Zone, rising layer by layer as you and your Towertizens stand together against looming disasters. Build trade ports and vertical supply networks. Perform Rituals to shape miracles, and witness the prosperity of this rising nation.
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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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Zeus Begins
Single-player alternative to Craftlings — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Craftlings.
Help the young Zeus to come back to Olympus and defeat Cronus. Cronus ate all of his sons but Zeus escaped with the help of his mother,he trained so hard in combat to defeat all the enemies that Cronus send to him. Fight with mythologic creatures and titans across Grece in a beat´em up game!
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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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Save the settlers
Single-player alternative to Craftlings — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Craftlings.
This is a tower defense game in which you have to defend a settlement from bloodthirsty creatures.
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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.