Single-player games like Ninja Village
Below are 23 single-player Steam games similar to Ninja Village, 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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Venture Towns
Single-player alternative to Ninja Village — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ninja Village.
Make your own metropolitan utopia! Stores, mansions, towers--anything goes!
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Beastie Bay DX
Single-player alternative to Ninja Village — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ninja Village.
Develop a deserted island and collect rare monsters!
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High Sea Saga DX
Single-player alternative to Ninja Village — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ninja Village.
Set sail and join yer crew in search of treasure and glory!
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Forest Camp Story
Single-player alternative to Ninja Village — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ninja Village.
Create and customize your own campground in this charming pixel art sim game.
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Oh! Edo Towns
Single-player alternative to Ninja Village — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ninja Village.
Plunge into the past for a rousing romp through Edo period Japan!
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Scarecropia
Single-player alternative to Ninja Village — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ninja Village.
Here is Scarecropia! Lead at most 400 people to build a settlement. Arm your village to fight against the Goblin army, or invest limited resources in yourself to become unparalleled! Take every cost to survive!
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Rising Army
Single-player alternative to Ninja Village — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ninja Village.
Rising Army is a strategy auto-battler game where you can train and equip every single troop, upgrade your camp, and recruit new warriors. Experience a campaign in an open world and take on epic battles.
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Kingdom Of Force
Single-player alternative to Ninja Village — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ninja Village.
KOF is a magic background real-time strategy game, which is based on the method of dispatching troops to occupy the city, and combines the elements of resource collection, construction, upgrading, tower defense and so on.
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Single-player alternative to Ninja Village — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Ninja Village.
"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was first released in 1985. It was the first historical simulation game released in Japan based on the Chinese classical literature "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". Players become the leaders of their countries and strive to unite the land under their rule.
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NOBUNAGA'S AMBITION
Single-player alternative to Ninja Village — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Ninja Village.
Nobunaga's Ambition, the first of the series, was released in 1983. Players assume the mantle of either Nobunaga Oda or Shingen Takeda and strive to conquer the entire land (17 areas in the Kansai and central Japan region). They manage their country to make it rich, then prepare their military forces.
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SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition
Single-player alternative to Ninja Village — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ninja Village.
SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition includes the bestselling SimCity 4 and the all-new SimCity 4 Rush Hour Expansion Pack. Create the most massive region of cities ever, with a farming town, bedroom community, high-tech commercial center, and industrial backbone.
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Total War: SHOGUN 2
Single-player alternative to Ninja Village — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Ninja Village.
Total War: SHOGUN 2 is the perfect mix of real-time and turn-based strategy gaming for newcomers and veterans alike.
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Total War: ROME II - Emperor Edition
Single-player alternative to Ninja Village — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Ninja Village.
Emperor Edition is the definitive edition of ROME II, featuring an improved politics system, overhauled building chains, rebalanced battles and improved visuals in both campaign and battleEmperor Edition contains all free feature updates since its release in 2013, which includes bug fixes, balancing, Twitch.
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Total War: WARHAMMER
Single-player alternative to Ninja Village — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Ninja Village.
Addictive turn-based empire-building with colossal, real-time battles, all set in a world of legendary heroes, giant monsters, flying creatures and storms of magical power.
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Total War: WARHAMMER II
Single-player alternative to Ninja Village — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Ninja Village.
Strategy gaming perfected. A breath-taking campaign of exploration, expansion and conquest across a fantasy world. Turn-based civilisation management and real-time epic strategy battles with thousands of troops and monsters at your command.
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Zeus Begins
Single-player alternative to Ninja Village — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Ninja Village.
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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Game Dev Story
Single-player alternative to Ninja Village — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ninja Village.
Work hard and you may reach the top of the video game industry!
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Dungeon Village
Single-player alternative to Ninja Village — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ninja Village.
Build a heroic hamlet that warriors and merchants can call home!
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Dungeon Village 2
Single-player alternative to Ninja Village — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ninja Village.
Recruit adventurers and monsters to create your own RRG-style town!
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Dream Town Island
Single-player alternative to Ninja Village — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ninja Village.
A town sim where you raise generations of residents. Unlock new stores and facilities, help your residents find love, or cash in on the stock market!
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Doraemon Dorayaki Shop Story
Single-player alternative to Ninja Village — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Ninja Village.
A simulation game where you create a wonderful sweets shop with Doraemon
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The Sushi Spinnery
Single-player alternative to Ninja Village — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ninja Village.
Revolutionize the revolving sushi bar in this fresh new sim!
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Jumbo Airport Story
Single-player alternative to Ninja Village — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ninja Village.
Just imagine: your own world-famous airport! A game with sky-high levels of fun!