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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Throne of Cards
Single-player alternative to Stacklands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stacklands.
Build a kingdom from a handful of cards. Stack and combine cards to gather resources, train soldiers, unlock powerful decks, and forge a strategy around rulers, artifacts, and survival.
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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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WAGON
Single-player alternative to Stacklands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stacklands.
WAGON is a 1-bit card game where you make tough decisions to try and survive winter on the Oregon Trail.
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可识此阵
Single-player alternative to Stacklands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Stacklands.
策略构筑玩法+2048操作方式的休闲卡牌游戏。
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Feudalia
Single-player alternative to Stacklands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Stacklands.
Feudalia is a deck building and resource card game. Discover how to be a feudal lord and manage the new territories of the kingdom with the help of your vassals. A fun card game that will make you the master of three fiefdoms, make them grow by taking advantage of your card skills.
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Cat Guardian
Single-player alternative to Stacklands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Stacklands.
Cat Guardian is a flexible card game blending tower defense and survival. Manage resources, build, and strategize to protect the Tree of Hope from zombies. Can the cats of Meowx Planet succeed in their mission and survive? It’s up to you!
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Untraveled Lands: Chantico
Single-player alternative to Stacklands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stacklands.
Explore the wild depths of "Untraveled Lands: Chantico" a card-based survival management game mixed with roguelike elements. Build a village, manage survivors, craft essential items and equipment. Unravel jungle mysteries to find your way through a world lost in time.
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Paper Kingdom
Single-player alternative to Stacklands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stacklands.
Paper Kingdom is a colony management game. Stack cards to gather resources, build structures, explore and fight invaders. Turn a nomadic tribe into an empire.
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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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The Binding of Isaac
Single-player alternative to Stacklands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Stacklands.
Now 20% More Evil with the Free Halloween update!
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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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Resident Evil 2
Single-player alternative to Stacklands — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A deadly virus engulfs the residents of Raccoon City in September of 1998, plunging the city into chaos as flesh eating zombies roam the streets for survivors. An unparalleled adrenaline rush, gripping storyline, and unimaginable horrors await you. Witness the return of Resident Evil 2.
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Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
Single-player alternative to Stacklands — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Embody the superhuman skill and brutality of a Space Marine. Unleash deadly abilities and devastating weaponry to obliterate the relentless Tyranid swarms. Defend the Imperium in spectacular third-person action in solo or multiplayer modes.
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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 Indie and Casual 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 Indie and Casual 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.