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Single-player games like The King's Castle

Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to The King's Castle, 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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    Uphold The Realm — Steam game cover

    Uphold The Realm

    Single-player alternative to The King's Castle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The King's Castle.

    Uphold The Realm is a VR Tower Defense game that lets you take command of your wargames style campaign map to interact with levels and manage towers. When your ready - Shrink down onto the table and use your archery skills to defend against the oncoming hordes.

    2021ActionStrategyIndie6.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Noah's Dilemma — Steam game cover

    Noah's Dilemma

    Single-player alternative to The King's Castle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The King's Castle.

    A sudoku-inspired strategy roguelike where you build a team of animal sailors and guide your ark through perilous seas. Master tactical placement, face unpredictable encounters, and battle deadly foes as you chart a course through this reimagined world of Noah's Ark.

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Kingdom's Deck — Steam game cover

    Kingdom's Deck

    Single-player alternative to The King's Castle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The King's Castle.

    Build by day, defend by night! Kingdom's Deck is a card-based city builder where you build and protect your Kingdom from the enemy siege. Build your deck, deploy your cards wisely, defend your walls, manage your resources, and respond to various events that will shape your Kingdom!

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    无休仙途 — Steam game cover

    无休仙途

    Single-player alternative to The King's Castle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The King's Castle.

    This is a casual strategic placement game. In the aerial world set in ancient China, players will play the role of a descendant of the Immortal Cultivation Sect. Travel through the barren continent, obtain various resources, build your sect, and ultimately ascend to the immortal realm.

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure5.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Football, Tactics & Glory — Steam game cover

    Football, Tactics & Glory

    Single-player alternative to The King's Castle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The King's Castle.

    XCOM meets Football Manager. Develop your club, earn experience in turn-based matches, learn new skills, achieve new classes, upgrade your facilities, buy and sell footballers, grow your youth academy, make difficult choices. It's a deep strategy game that respects your time.

    2018SportsStrategySimulation24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Ozymandias: Bronze Age Empire Sim — Steam game cover

    Ozymandias: Bronze Age Empire Sim

    Single-player alternative to The King's Castle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The King's Castle.

    Build an empire in a single sitting. All the strategy of a classic 4X in a faster format, which also shines in multiplayer.

    2022StrategySimulation14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Xenonauts — Steam game cover

    Xenonauts

    Single-player alternative to The King's Castle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The King's Castle.

    Xenonauts is a strategy game in which you control a multi-national military organisation defending a Cold War-era Earth from alien invasion, using small squads of persistent soldiers to eliminate the extraterrestrials and recover their technology in turn-based ground combat.

    2014StrategyIndieSimulation24.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Skyward Collapse — Steam game cover

    Skyward Collapse

    Single-player alternative to The King's Castle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The King's Castle.

    How do you balance -- and indeed encourage -- a war between factions without letting either side obliterate the other? How do you rule over gods, creatures, and men who refuse to obey you? How do you build a landscape of villages when bandits and mythology are conspiring to tear it down?

    2013StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Clicker: Mining Simulator — Steam game cover

    Clicker: Mining Simulator

    Single-player alternative to The King's Castle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The King's Castle.

    In this game you will have an exciting immersion in the world of mining. You can earn the crypto currency and after selling it, follow the exchange rates, choose the currency that you like more and buy equipment to improve your farm.

    2018IndieSimulationCasual0.49 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Tupã — Steam game cover

    Tupã

    Single-player alternative to The King's Castle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The King's Castle.

    A small archer faces a wizard.

    2017ActionIndieAdventure0.79 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Triple Otakus Puzzle — Steam game cover

    Triple Otakus Puzzle

    Single-player alternative to The King's Castle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The King's Castle.

    Japanese ecchi style puzzle game which contain 3 different puzzle game. Game contains nudity images

    2017IndieCasualSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Fish's Trip — Steam game cover

    Fish's Trip

    Single-player alternative to The King's Castle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The King's Castle.

    Fish's Trip is a spin off of the game Kabitis, where Flop fish, of that game, is the main protagonist of this.

    2017IndieAdventureCasual0.79 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Run, my little pixel — Steam game cover

    Run, my little pixel

    Single-player alternative to The King's Castle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The King's Castle.

    This is the runner-game divided into three layers. Here you must avoid barriers and cope with the enemies. You will come across many exciting levels and hardcore bosses. The game is made in the style of Flat.

    2017IndieCasual0.49 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    JumpBall 2 — Steam game cover

    JumpBall 2

    Single-player alternative to The King's Castle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The King's Castle.

    This time the Colorfull Ninjas must deliver a signed diploma to the JumpBall Ninjas Association.

    2017SportsIndieCasual0.79 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    NARK THE DRAGON — Steam game cover

    NARK THE DRAGON

    Single-player alternative to The King's Castle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The King's Castle.

    In this game you will need to feed the dragon with meat, using a catapult. You are waiting for exciting calculations of path for the exact entrance to the mouth of an ancient creature. 30 different levels and nice gameplay will please fans of puzzles.

    2018IndieCasual0.49 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The m0rg VS keys — Steam game cover

    The m0rg VS keys

    Single-player alternative to The King's Castle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with The King's Castle.

    In this game you have to collect as many keys as you can. They will fly around in a location with ever increasing complexity. Beat the records! Be the best!

    2018IndieCasual0.49 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →