Single-player games like Gnomoria
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Gnomoria, 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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Dwarf Fortress
Single-player alternative to Gnomoria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gnomoria.
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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Towns
Single-player alternative to Gnomoria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gnomoria.
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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Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
Single-player alternative to Gnomoria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gnomoria.
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
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Banished
Single-player alternative to Gnomoria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gnomoria.
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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Life is Feudal: Forest Village
Single-player alternative to Gnomoria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gnomoria.
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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Founders' Fortune
Single-player alternative to Gnomoria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gnomoria.
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
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Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)
Single-player alternative to Gnomoria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Gnomoria.
The highly anticipated sequel to the best-selling Stronghold, Stronghold Crusader HD throws you into historic battles and castle sieges from the Crusades with fiendish AI opponents, new units, 4 historical campaigns and over 100 unique skirmish missions.
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Endzone - A World Apart
Single-player alternative to Gnomoria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gnomoria.
Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.
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RimWorld
Single-player alternative to Gnomoria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gnomoria.
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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Oxygen Not Included
Single-player alternative to Gnomoria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Gnomoria.
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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Evil Genius
Single-player alternative to Gnomoria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Gnomoria.
Everybody wants to rule the world! Achieve global power with EVIL GENIUS, the one and only complete world domination simulator. All the everyday tasks of the deliciously wicked mastermind are available to experience and master from building your ultra-secret base to developing spectacular super-weapons to carry out your nefarious master...
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My Colony
Single-player alternative to Gnomoria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gnomoria.
Build, expand, and rule a growing space colony. Explore tech, trade, and multiplayer.
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Timber and Stone
Single-player alternative to Gnomoria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gnomoria.
Timber and Stone is a procedural city building game set in a medieval fantasy world. With over one-hundred resources to gather and craft, Timber and Stone has the feel of a real time strategy game, but with much more depth and complexity.
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The Spatials
Single-player alternative to Gnomoria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Gnomoria.
It's the year 5781 -- and you have been chosen to build and lead a space station in a wild corner of the galaxy! Attract visitors and explore hundreds of planets to fund your station.