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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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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Dwarf Fortress
Single-player alternative to Folk Tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Folk Tale.
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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Farthest Frontier
Single-player alternative to Folk Tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Folk Tale.
Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.
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Going Medieval
Single-player alternative to Folk Tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Folk Tale.
Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.
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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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Craft The World
Single-player alternative to Folk Tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Folk Tale.
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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Bellwright
Single-player alternative to Folk Tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Folk Tale.
Establish and expand your own settlements, liberate the land and assist its villagers, and recruit others to your cause while learning more about a life you had to leave behind. Command your forces, prove your valor through combat, and cement yourself as the hero of your people.
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Stonehearth
Single-player alternative to Folk Tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Folk Tale.
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.