Single-player games like Stacklands
Below are 24 single-player Steam games similar to Stacklands, 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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Cardboard Town
Single-player alternative to Stacklands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stacklands.
Cardboard Town is a city-building card game. Manage your resources, obtain upgrades, draw your cards and thrive! Random events, quest cards, and game modes make each run different.
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Slay the Spire
Single-player alternative to Stacklands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Stacklands.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
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Balatro
Single-player alternative to Stacklands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Stacklands.
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
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Inscryption
Single-player alternative to Stacklands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Stacklands.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
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Ratropolis
Single-player alternative to Stacklands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stacklands.
A fusion of roguelite, tower defense, city-building, and deck-building! We created a new kind of real time strategy game filled with addictive and fast-paced gameplay. Create your deck, defend your city, and build the largest Ratropolis in history!
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Wildfrost
Single-player alternative to Stacklands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Stacklands.
Take on the elements in Wildfrost, a tactical roguelike deckbuilder! Journey across a frozen tundra, collecting cards strong enough to banish the eternal winter…
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WitchHand
Single-player alternative to Stacklands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Stacklands.
You're a witch, leading your coven into new, unfriendly lands. Use the cards you find to build and expand your civilization. Befriend the local covens or use their bones to fuel your spells. Gather your familiars, the witching hour is nigh.
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Griftlands
Single-player alternative to Stacklands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Stacklands.
Griftlands is a deck-building roguelite where you negotiate, fight, steal or otherwise persuade others to get your way. Every decision is important, be it the jobs you take, the friends you make, or the cards you collect.
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RimWorld
Single-player alternative to Stacklands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stacklands.
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
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Stardew Valley
Single-player alternative to Stacklands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stacklands.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
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Oxygen Not Included
Single-player alternative to Stacklands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stacklands.
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
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Terraria
Single-player alternative to Stacklands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Stacklands.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
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Sultan's Game
Single-player alternative to Stacklands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stacklands.
Survive a mad Sultan's reign in this brutal resource management RPG. Draw a card every seven days and complete its challenge. Make dreadful choices to stay alive: will you die a loyal servant, become a kingslayer, or call down the gods' judgement?
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Villagers
Single-player alternative to Stacklands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stacklands.
Villagers is a beautifully illustrated and richly detailed town-building game where you build a thriving community using the people and resources around you. Success or failure depends on your ability to create a town that can grow and prosper, and overcome the harsh realities of medieval life!
- 15
Backpack Hero
Single-player alternative to Stacklands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Stacklands.
The inventory management roguelike! Collect rare items, organize your backpack, and vanquish your foes!
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Peglin
Single-player alternative to Stacklands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual and Indie with Stacklands.
Peglin is a Pachinko Roguelike - Fight enemies by collecting special orbs and popping pegs to deal damage. Acquire special relics that radically change the game and ensure no two runs are the same. Aim carefully to survive in this unique turn-based RPG!
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Simmiland
Single-player alternative to Stacklands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stacklands.
Simmiland is a god-like card game. In this game you indirectly influence a small civilization by manipulating their surroundings by playing cards 🃏🃏🃏 Playing cards on different biomes and objects will result in different findings. The way you play the game will define how mankind will develop!
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Grunn
Single-player alternative to Stacklands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stacklands.
A gardener gets hired for maintenance work over the weekend. A simple task, but strangely some tools are missing… The owner of the garden isn't around, and their house is off-limits. Perhaps new tools can be found in the mysterious town, or maybe some of the reserved townsfolk have seen them?
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pyramida
Single-player alternative to Stacklands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Stacklands.
A village builder / survival game. Expand your village by day and fight monsters at night. Learn how to survive, and try to prevent your imminent demise . . .
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clickyland
Single-player alternative to Stacklands — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
clickyland is a tower defense village builder where clicks are your main resource. Use clicks to harvest resources, fight enemies and manage your village, but use them wisely as you only get 20 clicks every day! Can you reach day 100?
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fishy
Single-player alternative to Stacklands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual and Indie with Stacklands.
A game about a hungry fish 🐟 Eat to grow bigger, but watch out for fishes bigger than you! Grow big, strong and explore! Can you escape the pond?
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White Lavender
Single-player alternative to Stacklands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Stacklands.
A challenging adventure game with RPG-elements. Be a bug, fight other critters with swords and magic, collect powerful items such as pencils and teaspoons, meet cool characters, and up your fashion game on a journey to brew a special tea!
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Luckitown
Single-player alternative to Stacklands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stacklands.
Luckitown is a turn-based tower defense where you roll dice to build new structures and cast spells to defend your town.
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Ollie & Bollie: Outdoor Estate
Single-player alternative to Stacklands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual and Indie with Stacklands.
A cute sandbox game about restoring an estate. Work with your (real or AI) friend Bollie to cut trees, catch sheep, build a shed and more in this outdoor autumn sandbox game.