Single-player games like Folk Tale
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Folk Tale, 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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Towns
Single-player alternative to Folk Tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Folk Tale.
The game brings a fresh new take on the city building/management genre by introducing many RPG features. In Towns you manage a settlement on top of an active dungeon. Instead of playing the hero who delves deep into the dungeon, how about playing the town that houses and caters to the hero's needs?
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Banished
Single-player alternative to Folk Tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Folk Tale.
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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Lessaria: Fantasy Kingdom Sim
Single-player alternative to Folk Tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Folk Tale.
Lessaria is an RTS inspired by Majesty 👑 where you guide heroes with indirect control. Play through the campaign or relax in sandbox mode as you build your magical kingdom.
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Kingdom Wars
Single-player alternative to Folk Tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Folk Tale.
Kingdom Wars is a free to play 3D MMORTS with real-time siege combat, without the pay to win element so common in the genre. Kingdom Wars offers beautiful 3D online world, where players construct strongholds, direct citizens, complete quests and eventually manage a global empire.
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Foundation
Single-player alternative to Folk Tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Folk Tale.
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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Life is Feudal: Forest Village
Single-player alternative to Folk Tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Folk Tale.
LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.
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Grand Ages: Medieval
Single-player alternative to Folk Tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Folk Tale.
Rise from the humble role of a simple mayor governing a small settlement and rule over all of Europe.
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Spacebase DF-9
Single-player alternative to Folk Tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Folk Tale.
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.