Single-player games like Towns
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Towns, 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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Gnomoria
Single-player alternative to Towns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Towns.
Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.
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Stonehearth
Single-player alternative to Towns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Towns.
Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.
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Folk Tale
Single-player alternative to Towns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Towns.
Folk Tale is a single-player fantasy village builder RPG game. Grow your village from nothing, recruit heroes, explore dungeons, battle bosses, and take home a big bag of sweet loot.
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Banished
Single-player alternative to Towns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Towns.
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
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Dwarf Fortress
Single-player alternative to Towns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Towns.
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
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Darfall
Single-player alternative to Towns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Towns.
Darfall is a hero-based RPG city-building game that puts you in the role of a hero who must protect their home and help it grow! During the day, grow your hero’s might, find epic loot, master new abilities, and fortify your settlement. At night, survive the hordes of undead, until you triumph.
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Craft The World
Single-player alternative to Towns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Towns.
Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.
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Kenshi
Single-player alternative to Towns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Towns.
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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Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising
Single-player alternative to Towns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Towns.
Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising is an action RPG set in the same world as Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes. Features town-upgrading mechanics, fast-paced combat. A prequel to the world of the Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes.
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RimWorld
Single-player alternative to Towns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Towns.
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
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Digimon World: Next Order
Single-player alternative to Towns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and RPG with Towns.
The Digital World has run rampant with Machinedramon and is now in a state of utter chaos. As a Digidestined, it’s up to you to restore order to the world in Digimon World: Next Order, a monster collecting RPG.
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Oxygen Not Included
Single-player alternative to Towns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Towns.
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
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Spacebase DF-9
Single-player alternative to Towns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Towns.
In Spacebase DF-9, you'll build a home among the stars for a motley population of humans and aliens as they go about their daily lives. Mine asteroids, discover derelicts, and deal with the tribulations of galactic resettlement in Earth's distant future.
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Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
Single-player alternative to Towns — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
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Songs of Syx
Single-player alternative to Towns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Towns.
Songs of Syx is a fantasy city-builder with vast battles simulating thousands of citizens and soldiers. Start off as a small village and build, scheme, and fight your way towards a mighty empire. The mechanics are deep and true to life, where tiny events can spiral into the collapse of kingdoms.
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SC2VN - The eSports Visual Novel
Single-player alternative to Towns — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Towns.
SC2VN is a visual novel about the South Korean StarCraft 2 scene. You play as Mach, a foreign semi-pro trying to make it in eSports who soon learns that success in StarCraft takes more than in-game strategy.