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
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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!