Single-player games like Craft Hero
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Craft Hero, 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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Elixir of Life
Single-player alternative to Craft Hero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Craft Hero.
Fight, loot, craft equipment, collect your heroes and defeat evil! While doing all these, grow crops on your farm, feed your animals, make friends with the towns people, cook food, discover mysteries!
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Infested Fortress
Single-player alternative to Craft Hero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Craft Hero.
Dig into the mountain, collect resources to build your fortress, grow your population and keep them alive (and happy), learn new deadly skills, gather and refine materials to craft powerful items so you can fend off the many dangerous monsters threatening your colony in turn-based tactical combat.
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Overfall
Single-player alternative to Craft Hero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Craft Hero.
Set sail in Overfall, a whimsical roguelike turn-based RPG of diplomacy and danger. Recruit unlikely heroes, forge alliances or crush your foes across ever-shifting seas to find a lost king. Every run is fresh with procedural worlds, permanent death, branching story encounters, and hand-drawn art.
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Galactic Crew
Single-player alternative to Craft Hero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Craft Hero.
Galactic Crew II is a roguelike space exploration game inspired by FTL and the classic XCOM games. You and your valorous crew members will explore a galaxy with all its dangers and riches. Explore and colonize planets, customize your spaceship, raid underground dungeons, mine, trade and craft!
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Project Of Cooling The Earth
Single-player alternative to Craft Hero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Craft Hero.
Players must survive in the ruins of the human world and face various survival challenges and dangers. Players need to search for resources in abandoned cities and wilderness, including food, water sources, construction materials, etc., to maintain survival and build safe shelters.
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Museum No.9
Single-player alternative to Craft Hero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Craft Hero.
Massive artifact collection! Build your museum with extreme freedom! Visitor revenue depends on your route design, and whether you can achieve perfect profits is entirely up to you! Enjoy light rogue-style adventure exploration, and use different skill combinations to battle monsters every time!
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Space Prison
Single-player alternative to Craft Hero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Craft Hero.
Survive the galaxy's toughest prison and rise to the top of a space gang! Explore, fight, craft, trade and learn convicts' stories to escape the facility. Space Prison is a turn-based tactical survival game with deep strategy and social RPG elements.
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Z Dawn
Single-player alternative to Craft Hero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Craft Hero.
Z Dawn is a survival RPG that takes place in a post-apocalyptic world in which you get to manage a group of survivors to fight for their life, level up their skills, help fight off different breeds of zombies, build and upgrade camp, face hundreds of thrilling events and much more!