Single-player games like Cardboard Town
Below are 18 single-player Steam games similar to Cardboard Town, 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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Stacklands
Single-player alternative to Cardboard Town — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cardboard Town.
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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First Age
Single-player alternative to Cardboard Town — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Cardboard Town.
A turn-based strategy card game set in the Neolithic Age. Sacrifice villagers, tame mammoths, and build powerful card synergies to lead your tribe through the threat of the Dark Ages. Will your people stand the test of time?
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Dice & Fold
Single-player alternative to Cardboard Town — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cardboard Town.
A turn-based dungeon crawler where your only way of attacking the enemy is by rolling dice. Roll dice to damage enemy cards to FOLD. Inspired by classic Solitaire, in a top-down table and enemies made out of cards, try to beat the dungeon with 35 unique classes. Build your deck, kill monsters.
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Seekers of Eclipse
Single-player alternative to Cardboard Town — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cardboard Town.
A turn-based roguelike combining city-building and deckbuilding. Build thriving towns as you forge a path towards the eclipse. Strategically produce resources to appease the gods and unleash their divine wrath upon your enemies.
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Isles & Tiles
Single-player alternative to Cardboard Town — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cardboard Town.
Isles & Tiles is a turn-based colony builder with terraforming and deck-builder elements. Balance resource production and demands while raising your island, growing a colony, and providing for the needs of your settlers.
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Card Homestead
Single-player alternative to Cardboard Town — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cardboard Town.
Card Homestead is a roguelike deckbuilder where card placement decides everything. Each day, draft one of three delivered cards and stack them onto your plot, engineering powerful chain reactions. Produce gold with efficient synergies and layouts to survive the ever-rising taxes.
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Tiny Kingdom
Single-player alternative to Cardboard Town — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cardboard Town.
Tiny Kingdom is a minimalist city-building strategy game where every placement matters. Start with a single hut and grow a thriving kingdom by combining buildings, unlocking synergies, and creating efficient layouts.
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Faryloopa
Single-player alternative to Cardboard Town — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cardboard Town.
Build the board. Play the cards. Roll the dice. Faryloopa is a roguelike deckbuilder meets boardbuilder where every run is a new layout, new synergies, and bigger scores to chase.
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SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition
Single-player alternative to Cardboard Town — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Cardboard Town.
SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition includes the bestselling SimCity 4 and the all-new SimCity 4 Rush Hour Expansion Pack. Create the most massive region of cities ever, with a farming town, bedroom community, high-tech commercial center, and industrial backbone.
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The Binding of Isaac
Single-player alternative to Cardboard Town — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Cardboard Town.
Now 20% More Evil with the Free Halloween update!
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Slay the Spire
Single-player alternative to Cardboard Town — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cardboard Town.
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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Terraforming Mars
Single-player alternative to Cardboard Town — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Cardboard Town.
The taming of the Red Planet has begun! Corporations are competing to transform Mars into a habitable planet by spending vast resources and using innovative technology to raise temperature, create a breathable atmosphere, and make oceans of water.
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Townscaper
Single-player alternative to Cardboard Town — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cardboard Town.
Instant town building toy. Place housing blocks and watch them transform, piece by piece, into idyllic ocean-side towns, pastoral gardens, or sweeping cities on the sea.
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Monument Valley
Single-player alternative to Cardboard Town — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cardboard Town.
Embark on a journey of forgiveness through impossible environments and illusionary puzzles. Experience this meditative and calming puzzle game by manipulating monuments and creating evolving paths to explore new, surreal, and mysterious worlds.
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Havsala: Into the Soul Palace
Single-player alternative to Cardboard Town — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cardboard Town.
Havsala is an investigative puzzle game with rich storytelling full of historical references and mysticism. Search the room for the clues left behind by the previous reincarnations of a single soul, solve the puzzles and unravel the mystery.
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Lighthouse Keeper
Single-player alternative to Cardboard Town — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Cardboard Town.
You are tasked with taking care of the old Lighthouse in a small island. Repair its broken parts, hunt for food to get by, gather materials to craft stuff to help you along your journey through 11 islands.
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Meow Express
Single-player alternative to Cardboard Town — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Cardboard Town.
You are a cat on a robot vacuum cleaner. Which means you are bus driver in the cat world! Dodge obstacles, pop innocent kids' baloons, dash through buildings to collect your fellow cat pussengers. Meow Express is a cute, fun and annoying casual arcade game, just like our furry friends.
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Viral Firar
Single-player alternative to Cardboard Town — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Cardboard Town.
Viral Virar is an arcade running game with beautiful pixel art. Collect and upgrade 5 different runners with unique powers to reach to the end!