Single-player games like Simple Builder
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Simple Builder, 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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The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
Single-player alternative to Simple Builder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Simple Builder.
Build, survive, explore. Design your city, manage resource chains and workers, Send ships on expedition, trade with cities, discover mysterious dungeons and uncover secrets of ancients.
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Founders' Fortune
Single-player alternative to Simple Builder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Simple Builder.
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
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First Feudal
Single-player alternative to Simple Builder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Simple Builder.
Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.
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Kingdoms and Castles
Single-player alternative to Simple Builder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Simple Builder.
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
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Kingdom Two Crowns
Single-player alternative to Simple Builder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Simple Builder.
Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.
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Foundation
Single-player alternative to Simple Builder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Simple Builder.
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
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Kenshi
Single-player alternative to Simple Builder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Simple Builder.
A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.
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Farthest Frontier
Single-player alternative to Simple Builder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Simple Builder.
Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.
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Learning Geography: Countries of the World
Single-player alternative to Simple Builder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Simple Builder.
Learn or test your knowledge of 176 countries across the world. There are two separate game modes: an easier mode multiple choice to get started with and then a second mode where you have to type the names in.
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Roadkill Raceway
Single-player alternative to Simple Builder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Simple Builder.
In the not so distant future... the power of animal rights organizations has increased 10 fold. All animals are considered to have human level rights with one exception - getting in the way of a public service vehicle is not covered.
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Not In My Cave
Single-player alternative to Simple Builder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Simple Builder.
Defend Yourself! Not in my cave is the last line of defense to protect your magical spells from unrelenting attacks from the undead and goblin hordes. In this action based tower defense style game protect your spell books from being looted and leaving yourself defenseless!
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Crazy The Clown's Balloon Animal Massacre
Single-player alternative to Simple Builder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Simple Builder.
Crazy the Clown used to be the only one at the circus who made balloon animals for the kids. And then everything changed. Crazy told them all, more than once. He told them not to set up a balloon animal factory at the circus... but no one would listen.
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Escape From Nalaxion
Single-player alternative to Simple Builder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Simple Builder.
Prepare for an adrenaline-fueled, intergalactic battle like never before in our intense FPS shooter game! As a brave commander leading your platoon on a critical raid on Nalaxion 54, fate takes a thrilling turn when you accidentally stumble upon a hidden trap door.
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The Ghosts of Terinor
Single-player alternative to Simple Builder — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The Ghosts of Terinor have recently gained the ability to drain magical powers. As expected your ability to throw fireballs was confiscated by them almost immediately. Use your dual enchanted blades to regain your mojo!