Single-player games like Guardener
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Guardener, 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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Sprite's Honor!
Single-player alternative to Guardener — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Guardener.
Gnomes stole your boat parts! Gather resources to master Fae powers. Farm mythical creatures and build a colony to defeat the gnome kings and get back home!
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NecroFarm
Single-player alternative to Guardener — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Guardener.
Turn your crops into minions and they will fend off waves of enemies in this top-down horde survival farming game. A mix of strategy and fast-paced farming that challenges you to defend the farm with your crop minions or even harvest them for gold! Gain new seeds and grow your army!
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Cheaphaven
Single-player alternative to Guardener — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Guardener.
Cheaphaven features a brief respite full of farming, building and upgrading, a small town of NPCs for all your chatting and shopping needs, and vaguely humorous descriptions for everyday items. Day/night cycle, market values, a pigeon, all the things that are supposed to be in a farming game
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Grandiose
Single-player alternative to Guardener — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Guardener.
Grandiose is a calming and creative base builder game full of botany, building and strategy. Land on the island that will become your domain in a universe soon to be borrowed from the ingenious and creative abilities of your mind.
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Industrial Petting
Single-player alternative to Guardener — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Guardener.
Industrial Petting is a cozy factory game about building an adoption empire of adorable pets! Play with friends or solo. Build happy pet pipelines, explore and farm an alien island, and fulfill adoption contracts from across the galaxy!
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No Creeps Were Harmed TD
Single-player alternative to Guardener — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Guardener.
Employ lethal turrets, traps, and gadgets to defend against an onslaught of evolving creeps! Step into a twisted, hyper 3D, mind bending realm. Upgrade and adapt your defenses. Become a master maze crafter. Collect bizarre artifacts. Rush creeps for lucrative rewards, and succumb to greed!
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Northend Tower Defense
Single-player alternative to Guardener — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Guardener.
Jump into a realtime strategy, action filled battlefield, deploy relentless soldiers, unlock powerful troops and vehicles, upgrade your army, decimate the enemy. If that's not enough, jump into a chaotic Zombie mode, with traps, fun upgrades, and a new gameplay!
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Autonauts
Single-player alternative to Guardener — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Guardener.
In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.
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pyramida
Single-player alternative to Guardener — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Guardener.
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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Tuin
Single-player alternative to Guardener — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Guardener.
Plant seeds, pull weeds and sell vegetables - all while doing something else!
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Stacklands
Single-player alternative to Guardener — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Guardener.
Stacklands is a village builder where you stack cards to collect food, build structures, and fight creatures. 🃏 For example, dragging a Villager card on top of a Berry Bush card will spawn Berry cards which the villagers can eat to survive. 🃏 Play your cards right and expand your village!
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Simmiland
Single-player alternative to Guardener — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Guardener.
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 Guardener — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Guardener.
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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clickyland
Single-player alternative to Guardener — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Guardener.
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 Guardener — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Guardener.
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 Guardener — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Guardener.
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 Guardener — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Guardener.
Luckitown is a turn-based tower defense where you roll dice to build new structures and cast spells to defend your town.