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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 — Steam game cover

    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!

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Infested Fortress — Steam game cover

    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.

    2023StrategyAdventureRPG19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
  3. 3
    Overfall — Steam game cover

    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.

    2016StrategyIndieAdventure4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Galactic Crew — Steam game cover

    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!

    2019ActionStrategyIndieSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Project Of Cooling The Earth — Steam game cover

    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.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Museum No.9 — Steam game cover

    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!

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure4.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Space Prison — Steam game cover

    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.

    2024StrategyAdventureSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Z Dawn — Steam game cover

    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!

    2019StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →